Flexbox alignment with images and text inside same container - html

Question

I am making a flexbox Employee ID card layout. The employee's picture will go to the left and the employee's info (name, employee-id, department, etc) will go to the right of the image in a list format top-to-bottom.
I need to do this using flexbox.
Here is a link to my JSFiddle with what I have done so far:
http://jsfiddle.net/Hopped_Up_Designs/3teLbqqf
.flex-container {
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-flex-direction: row;
flex-direction: row;
-webkit-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
flex-wrap: wrap;
min-width: 320px;
max-width: 1220px;
}
.flex-item {
height: 120px;
width: 300px;
background-color: #e46119;
border: 1px solid #626262;
margin: 3px;
padding: 10px 0 0 10px;
}
span {
padding-left: 5px;
}
<div class="flex-container">
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
<div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<span>Text fields will go here</span>
</div>
</div>
Any and all help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Jason

Answer 1

The most unobtrusive approach which I found was to add this:
.flex-item {
display:flex;
align-items: center;
}
.flex-item img{
flex-grow:0;
flex-shrink:0;
}
If you add multiple <span> immediately after the img, they'll continue displaying in row fashion (like a float). This may not be the what you want, though. One option could be to set each item to a fixed width - but that breaks the spirit of flexbox.
But if you modify your text wrapper to contain a single <div>, I think you'll be fine. The <div> will display as a block level element until you choose otherwise.
<div class="flex-item">
<img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
<div>
<ul>
<li>Text fields will go here</li>
<li>and here</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Here's a fork of your fiddle where I did this. http://jsfiddle.net/Paceaux/7fcqkb50/1/

Answer 2

Just wrap your info in a container set to display: inline-block:
HTML
<div class="flex-item">
<img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"/>
<div class="info-container">
<p>Field 1</p>
<p>Field 2</p>
<p>Field 3</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.info-container{
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
padding: 0 0 0 5px;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.info-container p{
padding: 0;
margin: 0 0 10px;
}
FIDDLE