There doesn’t seem to be justify-self, but you can achieve similar result setting appropriate margin to auto¹. E. g. for flex-direction: row (default) you should set margin-right: auto to align the child to the left. .container { height: 100px; border: solid 10px skyblue; display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; } .block { width: 50px; background: tomato; } … Read more
The Problem Flexbox makes centering very easy. By simply applying align-items: center and justify-content: center to the flex container, your flex item(s) will be vertically and horizontally centered. However, there is a problem with this method when the flex item is bigger than the flex container. As noted in the question, when the flex item … Read more
Set them so that their flex-basis is 0 (so all elements have the same starting point), and allow them to grow: flex: 1 1 0px Your IDE or linter might mention that the unit of measure ‘px’ is redundant. If you leave it out (like: flex: 1 1 0), IE will not render this correctly. … Read more
Use the flex-grow property to make a flex item consume free space on the main axis. This property will expand the item as much as possible, adjusting the length to dynamic environments, such as screen re-sizing or the addition / removal of other items. A common example is flex-grow: 1 or, using the shorthand property, … Read more
You’ve got flex-wrap: wrap on the container. That’s good, because it overrides the default value, which is nowrap (source). This is the reason items don’t wrap to form a grid in some cases. In this case, the main problem is flex-grow: 1 on the flex items. The flex-grow property doesn’t actually size flex items. Its … Read more
Bootstrap 5 (update 2021) In Bootstrap 5 (see this question), ml-auto has been replaced with ms-auto to represent start instead of left. Since the Navbar is still based on flexbox, auto margins OR flexbox utility classes are still used to align Navbar content. For example, use me-auto… <nav class=”navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light”> <div class=”container-fluid”> <a … Read more
Important! Vertical center is relative to the height of the parent If the parent of the element you’re trying to center has no defined height, none of the vertical centering solutions will work! Now, onto vertical centering… Bootstrap 5 (Updated 2021) Bootstrap 5 is still flexbox based so vertical centering works the same way as … Read more
The Automatic Minimum Size of Flex Items You’re encountering a flexbox default setting. A flex item cannot be smaller than the size of its content along the main axis. The defaults are… min-width: auto min-height: auto …for flex items in row-direction and column-direction, respectively. You can override these defaults by setting flex items to: min-width: … Read more
display: inline-flex does not make flex items display inline. It makes the flex container display inline. That is the only difference between display: inline-flex and display: flex. A similar comparison can be made between display: inline-block and display: block, and pretty much any other display type that has an inline counterpart.1 There is absolutely no … Read more
There is an important bit that is not mentioned in the article to which you linked and that is flex-basis. By default flex-basis is auto. From the spec: If the specified flex-basis is auto, the used flex basis is the value of the flex item’s main size property. (This can itself be the keyword auto, … Read more