Aligning navbar unordered list with flexbox - html

Question

I am using flexbox to create a navbar - A Codepen here. I want a logo on the left and the links on the right of the navbar.
However I cannot workout how to use flex-end to good effect. My links in the unordered list do not appear to be affected by flexbox. Is there a special way to bind flexbox to a navbar?
My HTML:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway" />
<nav>
<!-- Primary Logo -->
<div id="logo">
<img src="http://www.shinetown.com.sg/shinetown/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/logo-dummy.png" alt="NewCircle">
</div>
<!-- Primary Navigation -->
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="current">Home
<li>Products
<li>Pricing Plans
<li>Help
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
and my Stylus code:
nav-height = 100px
primary-color = #FF5B4E
primary-text-color = #444
secondary-border-color = #EEE
body {
font-family: Raleway
}
nav, nav *
display: flex
align-items: center
width: 100%
nav
height: nav-height
border-bottom: 5px solid secondary-border-color
#logo
width: 300px
height: nav-height
border-right: 1px solid secondary-border-color
padding: 0 1em 0 1em
img
max-width: 100%
#navigation
height: 100%
justify-content: flex-end
ul
list-style-type: none
padding: 0
height: 100%
margin: 0
li
height: 100%
a
height: 100%
transition: color 0.4s ease
font-weight: bold
font-size: 13px
letter-spacing: 1px
text-transform: uppercase
text-align: center
text-decoration: none
color: primary-text-color
padding: 0 18px 0 18px
a:hover
color: primary-color
.current
> a
color: primary-color

Answer 1

flex-end won't solve it, margin-left: auto will.
nav, nav *
display: flex
align-items: center
#navigation
height: 100%
margin-left: auto
Also, in the rule you have nav *, which will make all nav's descendants to have 100% width, and the #navigation can't align right being full width.
Removing width: 100% from your nav, nav * rule will fix that.
Updated codepen
Stack snippet
body {
font-family: Raleway;
}
nav,
nav * {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
nav {
height: 100px;
border-bottom: 5px solid #eee;
}
nav #logo {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
border-right: 1px solid #eee;
padding: 0 1em 0 1em;
}
nav #logo img {
max-width: 100%;
}
nav #navigation {
height: 100%;
margin-left: auto;
}
nav #navigation ul {
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
nav #navigation ul li {
height: 100%;
}
nav #navigation ul li a {
height: 100%;
transition: color 0.4s ease;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 13px;
letter-spacing: 1px;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
color: #444;
padding: 0 18px 0 18px;
}
nav #navigation ul li a:hover {
color: #ff5b4e;
}
nav #navigation ul .current > a {
color: #ff5b4e;
}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway" />
<nav>
<!-- Primary Logo -->
<div id="logo">
<img src="http://www.shinetown.com.sg/shinetown/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/logo-dummy.png" alt="NewCircle">
</div>
<!-- Primary Navigation -->
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="current">Home
<li>Products
<li>Pricing Plans
<li>Help
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
Note, the justify-content: flex-end should be used on the flex container, not on flex items. When one want to set it on a flex item, use align-self: flex-end.
In this case the flex has row direction, so the align-self won't work as it applies on the cross axis, hence margin-left: auto will do the trick.