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CSS Flex Items

Overview

The direct child elements of a flex container automatically becomes flex items. Flex items can have the following properties: order

Formula

- Specifies the display order of the flex items inside the flex container flex - grow
- Specifies how much a flex item will grow relative to the rest of the flex items flex - shrink
- Specifies how much a flex item will shrink relative to the rest of the flex items flex - basis
  • Specifies the initial length of a flex item flex

Formula

- Shorthand property for flex - grow, flex - shrink, and flex - basis align - self
  • Specifies the alignment for the flex item inside the flex container

CSS order Property

The order property specifies the display order of the flex items inside the flex container. The first flex item in the source code does not have to appear as the first item in the layout. The order value must be a number, and the default value is 0.

Example

The order value specifies the display order of the flex items:

Formula

< div class ="flex - container">

<div style="order: 3">1</div> <div style="order: 2">2</div> <div style="order: 4">3</div> <div style="order: 1">4</div> </div>

Result:

CSS flex-grow Property

Formula

The flex - grow property specifies how much a flex item will grow relative to the rest of the flex items.

The value must be a number, and the default value is 0.

Example

Make the third flex item grow four times faster than the other flex items:

Formula

< div class ="flex - container">
< div style ="flex - grow: 1"> 1 </div >
< div style ="flex - grow: 1"> 2 </div >
< div style ="flex - grow:

4">3</div> </div>

Result:

CSS flex-shrink Property

Formula

The flex - shrink property specifies how much a flex item will shrink relative to the rest of the flex items.

The value must be a number, and the default value is 1.

Example

Let the third flex item shrink twice as much as the other flex items:

Formula

< div class ="flex - container">
< div > 1 </div >
< div > 2 </div >
< div style ="flex - shrink:

2">3</div>

Formula

< div > 4 </div >
< div > 5 </div >
< div > 6 </div >

</div>

Result:

CSS flex-basis Property

Formula

The flex - basis property specifies the initial length of a flex item.

Example

Set the initial length of the third flex item to 250 pixels:

Formula

< div class ="flex - container">
< div > 1 </div >
< div > 2 </div >
< div style ="flex - basis: 250px"> 3 </div >
< div > 4 </div >

</div>

Result:

CSS flex Property

Formula

The flex property is a shorthand property for the flex - grow, flex - shrink, and flex - basis properties.

Example

Make the third flex item growable (1), not shrinkable (0), and with an initial length of 150 pixels:

Formula

< div class ="flex - container">
< div > 1 </div >
< div > 2 </div >

<div style="flex: 1 0 150px">3</div>

Formula

< div > 4 </div >

</div>

CSS align-self Property

Formula

The align - self property specifies the alignment for the selected item inside the flexible container.
This property overrides the default alignment set by the container's align - items property.
In these examples we use a 200 pixels high container, to better demonstrate the align - self property:

Example

Align the third flex item in the middle of the container:

Formula

< div class ="flex - container">
< div > 1 </div >
< div > 2 </div >
< div style ="align - self:

center">3</div>

Formula

< div > 4 </div >

</div>

Result:

Example

Align the second flex item at the top of the container, and the third flex item at the bottom of the container:

Formula

< div class ="flex - container">
< div > 1 </div >
< div style ="align - self:
flex - start"> 2 </div >
< div style ="align - self:
flex - end"> 3 </div >
< div > 4 </div >

</div>

Result:

The CSS Flex Items Properties

The following table lists all the CSS Flex Items properties:

Property

Description align-self

Formula

Specifies the alignment for a flex item (overrides the flex container's align - items property)

flex

Formula

A shorthand property for the flex - grow, flex - shrink, and the flex - basis properties flex - basis
Specifies the initial length of a flex item flex - grow
Specifies how much a flex item will grow relative to the rest of the flex items inside the container flex - shrink

Specifies how much a flex item will shrink relative to the rest of the flex items inside the container order Specifies the order of the flex items inside the container

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