title: Flex Box Align Top & Align Center
body: <p>I have a banner.</p>
  
  <p>The banner has a paragraph that needs to be at the top of it.</p>
  
  <p>It then has some heading text, That heading text needs to be aligned centrally.</p>
  
  <p>I am having difficulty aligning everything to top and center.</p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false">
  <div class="snippet-code">
  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.home-banner {
    padding-top: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0;
    text-align: center;
    background-image: url(../img/banners/banner-home.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: right;
    background-size: cover;
    margin-top: 2em;
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
  }
  
  .banner-area {}
  
  .banner-item {
    flex: 1;
  }
  
  .banner-item--top {
    align-self: flex-start;
  }
  
  .banner-center {}
  
  .banner-title {
    color: @white;
    background: @dark;
    display: inline-block;
    margin-bottom: 0.2em;
    padding: 1em;
  }
  
  .banner-title__text {
    font-family: @fatfrank;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-size: 60px;
    font-weight: 600;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;section class="home-banner"&gt;
    &lt;div class="banner-area"&gt;
      &lt;div class="container"&gt;
        &lt;div class="banner-item banner-item--top"&gt;
          &lt;p class="t-white coloured-underline"&gt;Experts in the permanent and contract placement of &lt;br /&gt; ex-Forces and technical candidates&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-lg-12"&gt;
            &lt;h1 class="banner-title"&gt;&lt;span class="banner-title__text"&gt;Find Your&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
            &lt;h1 class="banner-title"&gt;&lt;span class="banner-title__text"&gt;Perfect Civilian Career&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;!-- /.col-lg-12 --&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;!-- /.row --&gt;
        &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-6"&gt;
            &lt;a class="button" href="#"&gt;I'm looking for a job&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;!-- /.col-lg-6 --&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-6"&gt;
            &lt;a class="button" href="#"&gt;I'm looking for skilled staff&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;!-- /.col-lg-6 --&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;!-- /.row --&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;!-- /.container --&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;!-- /.banner-center --&gt;
  &lt;/section&gt;
  &lt;!-- /.home-banner --&gt;</code></pre>
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  </p>
  
  <p>jsFiddle also available <a href="https://jsfiddle.net/nLh25hmy/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>How do I go about aligning these up correctly and properly?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>