- Tags: Layout, Responsive
- Categories: CSS Flexbox, CSS Tutorials, Tutorials
Overview
The flex-grow property specifies how much a flex item will grow relative to the rest of the flex items to fill their parent container.
Growing the Width of Items
In the following, flex-grow is not used, and the three boxes sit at their natural size.
<div class="flex_container">
<div class="div_1">Box 1</div>
<div class="div_2">Box 2</div>
<div class="div_3">Box 3</div>
</div>
.flex_container {
display: flex;
background-color: #ffbd02;
}
.flex_container > div {
background-color: #eaeaea;
margin: 10px;
padding: 20px;
font-size: 22px;
}
However, if we add lines 11 through 19, we can define the size of each item as compared to the other flex items, and they will now fill the container horizontally.
.flex_container {
display: flex;
background-color: #ffbd02;
}
.flex_container > div {
background-color: #eaeaea;
margin: 10px;
padding: 20px;
font-size: 22px;
}
.div_1 {
flex-grow: 1;
}
.div_2 {
flex-grow: 3;
}
.div_3 {
flex-grow: 1;
}
Flex Properties
- CSS – align-content Property
- CSS – align-items Property
- CSS – align-self Property
- CSS – flex Property
- CSS – flex-basis Property
- CSS – flex-direction Property
- CSS – flex-flow Property
- CSS – flex-grow Property
- CSS – flex-shrink Property
- CSS – flex-wrap Property
- CSS – justify-content Property
- CSS – order Property
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CSS NOTES:
- The “inherit”, “initial” and “unset” keywords can be used with any CSS property to set its value
- In CSS there are many ways to express a color value in a property
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