css flex space to next item code example

Example 1: add space between all html elements flex

/* There is now a `gap` CSS property
** This works for <flex>, <grid>, and <multicolumn> layouts
** #box{} would lay out all it's children with 10px spacing between 
** different rows and 20px betwen different columns
*/
#box {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  gap: 10px 20px; /* row-gap [column-gap]*/
}

/* Supported by most modern browesers, Safari excluded. */

Example 2: gap between two flex items

.upper
{
  margin:30px;
  display:flex;
  flex-direction:row;
  width:300px;
  height:80px;
  border:1px red solid;

  padding:5px; /* this */
}

.upper > div
{
  flex:1 1 auto;
  border:1px red solid;
  text-align:center;

  margin:5px;  /* and that, will result in a 10px gap */
}

.upper.mc /* multicol test */
{flex-direction:column;flex-wrap:wrap;width:200px;height:200px;}