I was following along with the MDN page about flexbox and the child elements only arrange as rows if I give the child element flex: 200px;
Shouldn't it arrange in rows without adding any CSS to the child elements? I checked my HTML and CSS for errors (both were copied from MDN's website, so this is unlikely), and could not find any. Why won't it switch from columns to rows?
Here's what it looks like in Chrome:
Here's my code:
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