Faking Flexbox with legacy techniques
Flexbox is now available in all major browsers. Use it.
Flexbox is great Show archive.org snapshot , but you don't get reliable support in Internet Explorer.
The attached article Show archive.org snapshot shows how to accomplish many Flexboxish effects without actually using flexbox statements.
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