display: inline-block Demo

Elements displayed as inline block behave like they are single letters, no matter how big they are. To prove the point, here's a modern-day variant of an Egyptian Cartouche, using emoji instead of ancient pictograms:
. I chose four of my favourite things as my emoji cartouche - a camera because I like photography, a bike becuase I enjoy cycling, a Linux Penguin because I like computers, and a telescope because I love Astronomy.

Flex Box Demo

The layout of the central region of this page is done using flex box - the side bar is one flex item, and main content is another.

While flex box is very useful for layouts, it's just as useful for smaller elements on a page. For example, below are three nicely re-sizing boxes containing podcast suggestions as a flex box: