I am trying to fill the remaining space of a containing flex box with the green div. I want the top flex row (blue) to only be the height of its contents and then the row below (green) to fill the rest. For some reason it just seems to split the flex rows evenly down the div. I have read a few questions on here already which all say to make sure the containing div has its height set to 100%. I have set the containing div height to 200px as this is my desired height, but I have also tried adding another container within this to 100% to no avail. I've also made sure to set the flex-grow property on the second row to 1. Every time I think I'm beginning to understand flex it throws another curve ball and it's driving me up the wall. Please help! Thank you.
P.S. for some reason the HTML code snippet below refuses to include the first line of my html but it is contained in the following div: <div class="rmCtrlList_item"
.rmCtrlList_item {
width: 80vw;
margin: 3vw 8.5vw;
height: 200px;
background-color: $primary-color;
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 5px;
display: flex;
flex-flow: row;
flex-wrap: wrap;
// ROWS
&_row {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
#row-1 {
//max-height: 20px;
background-color: blue;
}
#row-2 {
flex-grow: 1;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
background-color: green;
}
// COLUMNS
&_col {
text-align: left;
flex-direction: column;
}
#col-1b {
flex-grow: 1;
}
}
<div class="rmCtrlList_item">
<div class="rmCtrlList_item_row" id="row-1">
<div class="rmCtrlList_item_col" id="col-1a">
<i class="icon__panel-2 fas fa-lightbulb"></i>
</div>
<div class="rmCtrlList_item_col" id="col-1b">
<a href="lights.html">
<h1 class="panel__title">Lights</h1>
</a>
</div>
<div class="rmCtrlList_item_col" id="col-1c">
<i class="icon__enlarge fas fa-plus-circle"></i>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rmCtrlList_item_row" id="row-2">
div to fill remaining space
</div>
</div>
how about to use flex-direction and below code what I used? green will fill ramaining space automatically, if you use its height's 100%
.container{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.blue{
width: 100%;
height: 90px; /*change only blue's height size, green will be filled automatically*/
background: blue;
}
.green{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: green;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="blue"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
</div>
In REACT, I have three divs that I would like to position side by side, separated by a small margin, and horizontally centered on the screen.
When the screen width becomes too small, I would like the right-most div to move below the first two divs, but still be horizontally centered.
When the screen becomes even smaller, I would like all three divs to be in a column in the center of the screen.
This is easy to achieve with images:
Html (the REACT flavor of html):
<div id='container'>
<img src={image}/>
<img src={image}/>
<img src={image}/>
<div/>
CSS:
#container {
text-align: center;
}
How can this be done with objects that are not imgs?
Welcome to stack overflow, I think what you're looking for is css flexbox https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layout/Flexbox.
#container {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.childClass { // you would need to add a className to the child divs
width: // add the width of your divs here, this will force them to wrap
flex-grow: 0;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
I think that should do it, but I highly encourage you to read https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ - it's one of the best resources on using flexbox for layouts
//use flexbox for easy structuring html elements
.container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
justify-content: center;
}
.first {
background-color: red;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.second {
background-color: blue;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
.third {
background-color: yellow;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
.flex-item {
padding: 10px;
margin: 1rem;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="first flex-item">First div</div>
<div class="second flex-item">Second div</div>
<div class="third flex-item">Third div</div>
</div>
for more info on flexbox visit here : https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
I know this sounds like it's been asked before but I've played around with a lot of techniques I've found from other questions and nothing seems to get the desired effect I need.
I'm trying to make something that will be responsive like this:
Responsive Example gif
I basically need an image to be centered, where the image is at 100% size.
Here is what I tried to get this effect:
I first made a div containing three child divs for "columns". Then inside the center column I made three child divs for "rows". Now I need the image to fill the max width it's allowed while still maintain that square aspect ratio. As well the height of the image should determine the height of the top and bottom rows.
Then it should just be a matter of having the text inside the top and bottom row align to the bottom and top of their divs respectively.
This would look something like this:
HTML Visualization of columns
HTML Visualization of center rows
The issue I'm running into is I can't seem to get the center image to determine the heights of the rows above and below it.
I've tried...
Flexbox
using vh (view height)
and a bit of using calc() but to no luck
Setting aspect ration with padding-top: 100%
What the code looks like
/* .row & .col from materialize.css */
.full {
height: 100vh;
}
.art_top {
height: 10vh;
/* I Don't actually want this fixed though */
padding-bottom: 10px;
display: flex;
}
.art_center {
height: 80vh;
/* I Don't actually want this fixed though */
}
.art_bottom {
height: 10vh;
/* I Don't actually want this fixed though */
padding-top: 10px;
display: flex;
}
#cover_art {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: center / cover no-repeat;
}
#song_name {
align-self: flex-end;
}
#artist_name {
align-self: flex-start;
}
<div class="row">
<div class="col s2 m3 full"></div>
<div class="col s8 m6 full">
<div class="row art_top">
<a id="song_name" class="bold-title"></a>
</div>
<div class="row art_center">
<div id="cover_art"></div>
</div>
<div class="row art_bottom">
<a id="artist_name" class="bold-title"></a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col s2 m3 full"></div>
</div>
Flexbox makes this kind of layout very straightforward. The trick is selectively allowing items to flex or shrink.
The flex property shorthand takes 3 values for flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis (the initial width or height depending on flex direction). Just keep clear which divs are serving as flex containers as you get into the details in the layout. It is very common to have divs that are both flex containers and flex items themselves too.
I also recommend using an img element instead of applying the image as a background so you dont have trouble with the aspect ratio in responsive window sizes.
A very nice resource: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
/* .row & .col from materialize.css */
body {
margin: 0;
}
.full {
height: 100vh;
}
.row {
display: flex;
}
.column {
flex: 1 1 auto;
}
.column2 {
background: #b4c2cf;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.column1 {
background: #cbb3cc;
}
.column3 {
background: #cbb2b2;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
.art_top {
flex: 1 0 10vh;
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-start
align-self: flex-end;
}
.art_center {
flex: 1 1 auto;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
.art_bottom {
flex: 1 0 10vh;
text-align: right;
}
#cover_art {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
width: auto;
height: auto;
}
#song_name {
align-self: flex-end;
}
#artist_name {
align-self: flex-start;
}
.bold-title {
display: block;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 10px;
}
.small-box {
background: #8f588c;
height: 100%;
max-height: 70px;
width: 100%;
max-width: 70px;
}
<div class="row full">
<div class="column column1"></div>
<div class="column column2">
<div class="art_top">
<a id="song_name" class="bold-title">My Album Title</a>
</div>
<div class="art_center">
<img id="cover_art" src="https://picsum.photos/400" />
</div>
<div class="art_bottom">
<a id="artist_name" class="bold-title">Artist Name</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="column column3">
<div class="small-box"></div>
</div>
</div>
Question
There is an inline container with 2 vertically stacked children. Pictured below:
The top green child should shrink it's width to the width of the bottom orange child, wrapping the text inside itself. The desired layout pictured below:
Question: How can it be done with CSS alone?
Other cases
Orange container wider than the green one (picture below). Green stays at it's natural maximum width. Note that even if the solution woulds stretch the green box to 100%, implementing the target solution would be easy by adding an extra container for the green box and then centering the green box inside it.
Orange box wider than the maxium possible width of the parent (picture below). Orange should start wrapping.
Notes
The content of the children is dynamic - the solution needs to work with children of variable width.
The parent is inline - it's width is not 100%, but rather the width of it's widest child.
Browser support is of no importance. Solutions can use even CSS Grid.
Code
Fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/twfky2cr/24/
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="fitChild">
Some long text that I would like to wrap to fit the container size
set by the orange box
</div>
<div class="fullWidthChild">
This one should set the container size
</div>
</div>
CSS
.container {
display: inline-flex;
flex-direction: column;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
align-items: center;
background-color: black;
}
.container,
.fitChild,
.fullWidthChild {
padding: 10px;
}
.fitChild {
color: white;
background-color: green;;
}
.fullWidthChild {
margin-top: 10px;
background-color: orange;
}
I have a partial solution for You.
http://jsfiddle.net/twfky2cr/166/
I'm using display: table and width:1px for cells.
<div class="table">
<div class="row">
<span class="cell wrap">
Some long text that I would like to wrap to fit the container size
</span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<span class="cell nowrap">
This one should set the container size
</span>
</div>
</div>
.table {
background-color: Black;
display: table;
padding: 1rem;
}
.row {
display: table-row;
}
.cell {
padding: 1rem;
display: table-cell;
width: 1px;
}
.wrap {
color: white;
background-color: Green;
white-space: wrap;
}
.nowrap {
background-color: Orange;
white-space: nowrap;
}
Checkout this fiddle here http://jsfiddle.net/kjr9aghp/
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.fitChild').width($('.fullWidthChild').width());
});
.container {
display: inline-flex;
flex-direction: column;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
align-items: center;
background-color: black;
}
.container,
.fitChild,
.fullWidthChild {
padding: 10px;
width: 100% !important;
}
.mainwrapper{
max-width:50%;
}
.fitChild {
color: white;
background-color: green;;
}
.fullWidthChild {
margin-top: 10px;
background-color: orange;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="mainwrapper">
<div class="fitChild">
Some long text that I would like to wrap to fit
the container size set by the orange box
</div>
<div class="fullWidthChild">
This one should set the container size
</div>
</div>
</div>
Imagine the following layout, where the dots represent the space between the boxes:
[Left box]......[Center box]......[Right box]
When I remove the right box, I like the center box to still be in the center, like so:
[Left box]......[Center box].................
The same goes for if I would remove the left box.
................[Center box].................
Now when the content within the center box gets longer, it will take up as much available space as needed while remaining centered. The left and right box will never shrink and thus when where is no space left the overflow:hidden and text-overflow: ellipsis will come in effect to break the content;
[Left box][Center boxxxxxxxxxxxxx][Right box]
All the above is my ideal situation, but I have no idea how to accomplish this effect. Because when I create a flex structure like so:
.parent {
display : flex; // flex box
justify-content : space-between; // horizontal alignment
align-content : center; // vertical alignment
}
If the left and right box would be exactly the same size, I get the desired effect. However when one of the two is from a different size the centered box is not truly centered anymore.
Is there anyone that can help me?
Update
A justify-self would be nice, this would be ideal:
.leftBox {
justify-self : flex-start;
}
.rightBox {
justify-self : flex-end;
}
If the left and right boxes would be exactly the same size, I get the desired effect. However when one of the two is a different size the centered box is not truly centered anymore. Is there anyone that can help me?
Here's a method using flexbox to center the middle item, regardless of the width of siblings.
Key features:
pure CSS
no absolute positioning
no JS/jQuery
Use nested flex containers and auto margins:
.container {
display: flex;
}
.box {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.box:first-child > span { margin-right: auto; }
.box:last-child > span { margin-left: auto; }
/* non-essential */
.box {
align-items: center;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background-color: lightgreen;
height: 40px;
}
p {
text-align: center;
margin: 5px 0 0 0;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="box"><span>short text</span></div>
<div class="box"><span>centered text</span></div>
<div class="box"><span>loooooooooooooooong text</span></div>
</div>
<p>↑<br>true center</p>
Here's how it works:
The top-level div (.container) is a flex container.
Each child div (.box) is now a flex item.
Each .box item is given flex: 1 in order to distribute container space equally (more details).
Now the items are consuming all space in the row and are equal width.
Make each item a (nested) flex container and add justify-content: center.
Now each span element is a centered flex item.
Use flex auto margins to shift the outer spans left and right.
You could also forgo justify-content and use auto margins exclusively.
But justify-content can work here because auto margins always have priority.
8.1. Aligning with auto
margins
Prior to alignment via justify-content and align-self, any
positive free space is distributed to auto margins in that dimension.
Use three flex items in the container
Set flex: 1 to the first and last ones. This makes them grow equally to fill the available space left by the middle one.
Thus, the middle one will tend to be centered.
However, if the first or last item has a wide content, that flex item will also grow due to the new min-width: auto initial value.
Note Chrome doesn't seem to implement this properly. However, you can set min-width to -webkit-max-content or -webkit-min-content and it will work too.
Only in that case the middle element will be pushed out of the center.
.outer-wrapper {
display: flex;
}
.item {
background: lime;
margin: 5px;
}
.left.inner-wrapper, .right.inner-wrapper {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
min-width: -webkit-min-content; /* Workaround to Chrome bug */
}
.right.inner-wrapper {
justify-content: flex-end;
}
.animate {
animation: anim 5s infinite alternate;
}
#keyframes anim {
from { min-width: 0 }
to { min-width: 100vw; }
}
<div class="outer-wrapper">
<div class="left inner-wrapper">
<div class="item animate">Left</div>
</div>
<div class="center inner-wrapper">
<div class="item">Center</div>
</div>
<div class="right inner-wrapper">
<div class="item">Right</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Analogous to above --> <div class="outer-wrapper"><div class="left inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Left</div></div><div class="center inner-wrapper"><div class="item animate">Center</div></div><div class="right inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Right</div></div></div><div class="outer-wrapper"><div class="left inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Left</div></div><div class="center inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Center</div></div><div class="right inner-wrapper"><div class="item animate">Right</div></div></div>
The key is to use flex-basis. Then the solution is simple as:
.parent {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.left, .right {
flex-grow: 1;
flex-basis: 0;
}
CodePen is available here.
Here's an answer that uses grid instead of flexbox. This solution doesn't require extra grandchild elements in the HTML like the accepted answer does. And it works correctly even when the content on one side gets long enough to overflow into the center, unlike the grid answer from 2019.
The one thing this solution doesn't do is show an ellipsis or hide the extra content in the center box, as described in the question.
section {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr auto 1fr;
}
section > *:last-child {
white-space: nowrap;
text-align: right;
}
/* not essential; just for demo purposes */
section {
background-color: #eee;
font-family: helvetica, arial;
font-size: 10pt;
padding: 4px;
}
section > * {
border: 1px solid #bbb;
padding: 2px;
}
<section>
<div>left</div>
<div>center</div>
<div>right side is longer</div>
</section>
<section>
<div>left</div>
<div>center</div>
<div>right side is much, much longer</div>
</section>
<section>
<div>left</div>
<div>center</div>
<div>right side is much, much longer, super long in fact</div>
</section>
Instead of defaulting to using flexbox, using grid solves it in 2 lines of CSS without additional markup inside the top level children.
HTML:
<header class="header">
<div class="left">variable content</div>
<div class="middle">variable content</div>
<div class="right">variable content which happens to be very long</div>
</header>
CSS:
.header {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: [first] 20% auto [last] 20%;
}
.middle {
/* use either */
margin: 0 auto;
/* or */
text-align: center;
}
Flexbox rocks but shouldn't be the answer for everything. In this case grid is clearly the cleanest option.
Even made a codepen for your testing pleasure:
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/mooQOV
You can do this like so:
.bar {
display: flex;
background: #B0BEC5;
}
.l {
width: 50%;
flex-shrink: 1;
display: flex;
}
.l-content {
background: #9C27B0;
}
.m {
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.m-content {
text-align: center;
background: #2196F3;
}
.r {
width: 50%;
flex-shrink: 1;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row-reverse;
}
.r-content {
background: #E91E63;
}
<div class="bar">
<div class="l">
<div class="l-content">This is really long content. More content. So much content.</div>
</div>
<div class="m">
<div class="m-content">This will always be in the center.</div>
</div>
<div class="r">
<div class="r-content">This is short.</div>
</div>
</div>
Here is another way to do it, using display: flex in the parents and childs:
.Layout{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.Left{
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-start;
width: 100%;
}
.Right{
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-end;
width: 100%;
}
<div class = 'Layout'>
<div class = 'Left'>I'm on the left</div>
<div class = 'Mid'>Centered</div>
<div class = 'Right'>I'm on the right</div>
</div>
A slightly more robust grid solution looks like this:
.container {
overflow: hidden;
border-radius: 2px;
padding: 4px;
background: orange;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: minmax(max-content, 1fr) auto minmax(max-content, 1fr);
}
.item > div {
display: inline-block;
padding: 6px;
border-radius: 2px;
background: teal;
}
.item:last-child > div {
float: right;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="item"><div contenteditable>edit the text to test the layout</div></div>
<div class="item"><div contenteditable>just click me and</div></div>
<div class="item"><div contenteditable>edit</div></div>
</div>
And here you can see it in Codepen: https://codepen.io/benshope2234/pen/qBmZJWN
I wanted the exact result shown in the question, I combined answers from gamliela and Erik Martín Jordán and it works best for me.
.parent {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.left, .right {
flex-grow: 1;
flex-basis: 0;
}
.right {
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
you can also use this simple way to reach exact center alignment for middle element :
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.container .sibling {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
height: 50px;
background-color: gray;
}
.container .sibling:first-child {
width: 50%;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.container .sibling:last-child {
justify-content: flex-end;
width: 50%;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding-left: 100px; /* .center's width divided by 2 */
}
.container .sibling:last-child .content {
text-align: right;
}
.container .sibling .center {
height: 100%;
width: 200px;
background-color: lightgreen;
transform: translateX(50%);
}
codepen: https://codepen.io/ErAz7/pen/mdeBKLG
Althought I might be late on this one, all those solutions seems complicated and may not work depending on the cases you're facing.
Very simply, just wrap the component you want to center with position : absolute, while letting the other two with justify-content : space-between, like so :
CSS:
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
background-color: lightgray;
}
.middle {
position: absolute;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
/* You should adapt percentages here if you have a background ; else, left: 0 and right: 0 should do the trick */
left: 40%;
right: 40%;
text-align: center;
}
/* non-essential, copied from #Brian Morearty answer */
.element {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background-color: lightgreen;
}
p {
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
<div class="container">
<p class="element">First block</p>
<p class="middle element">Middle block</p>
<p class="element">Third THICC blockkkkkkkkk</p>
</div>
Michael Benjamin has a decent answer but there is no reason it can't / shouldn't be simplified further:
.container {
display: flex;
}
.box {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.box:first-child { justify-content: left; }
.box:last-child { justify-content: right; }
And html
<div class="container">
<div class="box">short text</div>
<div class="box">centered tex</div>
<div class="box">loooooooooooooooong text</div>
</div>