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Using Flexbox to control multilevel menus with dropdowns

Using Flexbox to control multilevel menus with dropdowns - CSS Tutorial

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Using Flexbox to control multilevel menus with dropdowns

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- If you go out today and talk to industry experts on user experience or design or accessibility or mobile, you'll quickly discover a strong resistance to the traditional drop-down menu. Now there are several reasons for this, most notably that drop-down menus are not accessible, they're not easy to use if you use keyboard navigation or voice navigation and also because drop-down menus are not accessible if you use touchscreen devices. If you've ever tried to use a touchscreen device to open a drop-down menu, you'll know what I'm talking about. Even so, there are certain situations where you need to have a drop-down menu and in those cases, we can use Flexbox to change the behavior of the drop-down menu and style it the way we want but before we get to the Flexbox part, I need to explain how my drop-down menu works because it's a bit different from what you're used to. If you go to the Exercise Files for 02_05 and you go to menus.html in your browser, you will see the drop-down menu…

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