html - How to align flexbox columns left and right?

Question

With typical CSS I could float one of two columns left and another right with some gutter space in-between. How would I do that with flexbox?

http://jsfiddle.net/1sp9jd32/

#container {
  width: 500px;
  border: solid 1px #000;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: flex;
}
#a {
  width: 20%;
  border: solid 1px #000;
}
#b {
  width: 20%;
  border: solid 1px #000;
  height: 200px;
}

<div id="container">
  <div id="a">
    a
  </div>
  <div id="b">
    b
  </div>
</div>

Answer 1

You could add justify-content: space-between to the parent element. In doing so, the children flexbox items will be aligned to opposite sides with space between them.

Updated Example

#container {
    width: 500px;
    border: solid 1px #000;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
}

#container {
    width: 500px;
    border: solid 1px #000;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
}

#a {
    width: 20%;
    border: solid 1px #000;
}

#b {
    width: 20%;
    border: solid 1px #000;
    height: 200px;
}

<div id="container">
    <div id="a">
        a
    </div>
    <div id="b">
        b
    </div>
</div>