Flexbox is very well supported across modern browsers, however there are a few issues that you might run into.

Does display flex work on Safari?

Safari versions 9 and up support the current flexbox spec without prefixes. Older Safari versions, however, require -webkit- prefixes.

Does Flex work in Chrome?

Bearhead’s solution: it doesn’t work in Chrome. It should be solved in easier way.

What browsers support Flexbox?

Browser Support

• Chrome any.
• Firefox any.
• Safari any.
• Opera 12.1+
• IE 10+
• iOS any.
• Android any.

Can I use order CSS?

Since order is only meant to affect the visual order of elements and not their logical or tab order. order must not be used on non-visual media such as speech.

What does display flex do in CSS?

A flex container expands items to fill available free space or shrinks them to prevent overflow. Most importantly, the flexbox layout is direction-agnostic as opposed to the regular layouts (block which is vertically-based and inline which is horizontally-based).

Can I use CSS flex gap?

As you see, the gap works perfectly for both CSS grid and flex – on the browsers that support them. However, for the non-supporting browsers like old versions of Chrome and Safari, the result will look like the figure below.

Should I use flex or inline block?

There is absolutely no difference in the effect on flex items; flex layout is identical whether the flex container is block-level or inline-level.

Does Outlook support Flex?

Flexbox will then work perfectly in Outlook.com, but only in Internet Explorer 10 or 11. As for email applications, Flexbox works well in Apple Mail (on OS X or iOS), Android default email application (on Android 4.4 and below), Outlook app (on iOS and Android), and Thunderbird 31 (and above).

Which browsers are compatible with display Flexbox?

The two browsers you should still keep in mind for cross-browser compatibility are: Internet Explorer 10, which implemented the display: flexbox version of the specification with the -ms- prefix. UC Browser, which still supports the 2009 display: box version only with the -webkit- prefix.

Does Internet Explorer 11 support Flexbox?

Note that Internet Explorer 11 does not support feature queries yet does support flexbox. If you decide the IE11 implementation is too buggy and you wish to serve it the fallback layout then you could use feature queries to serve flexbox rules only to those browsers with good flexbox support.

What is cross browser CSS with feature detection?

In simple terms, cross browser CSS with feature detection involves testing whether a browser is capable of running the given lines of code and depending on the outcome of the test, a specific block of code is run which is supported by the browser resulting in near perfect consistency and cross browser CSS compatibility.

What is the use of flexflexbox in HTML?

Flexbox is just a new value of the display property, making it very useful if we want the former inline or inline-block elements to stack on top of each other. If a browser does not support flexbox, the elements will simply stack on top of each other the same way they do in mobile device browsers.