Using auto margins to center vertically | #shorts

Code: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/povpeoK

While we can vertically center items with align-items: center on the parent, or align-self: center; on the child, this only works if the flex-direction is row. If we change that to column, it's no longer vertically centered.

One of the nice things with flexbox (and grid!) is that margin-top: auto and margin-bottom: auto work like left and right, so we can use that to center things vertically regardless of the flex-direction.

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