How to stretch children to fill cross-axis?

Deborah Cole picture Deborah Cole · Apr 6, 2015 · Viewed 187.4k times · Source

I have a left-right flexbox:

The problem is that the right child is not behaving responsively. To be specific, I want it to fill the height of the wrapper.

How to accomplish this?

Answer

Alex Shesterov picture Alex Shesterov · Apr 6, 2015
  • The children of a row-flexbox container automatically fill the container's vertical space.

  • Specify flex: 1; for a child if you want it to fill the remaining horizontal space:

.wrapper {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: stretch;
  width: 100%;
  height: 5em;
  background: #ccc;
}
.wrapper > .left
{
  background: #fcc;
}
.wrapper > .right
{
  background: #ccf;
  flex: 1; 
}
<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="left">Left</div>
  <div class="right">Right</div>
</div>

  • Specify flex: 1; for both children if you want them to fill equal amounts of the horizontal space:

.wrapper {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: stretch;
  width: 100%;
  height: 5em;
  background: #ccc;
}
.wrapper > div 
{
  flex: 1; 
}
.wrapper > .left
{
  background: #fcc;
}
.wrapper > .right
{
  background: #ccf;
}
<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="left">Left</div>
  <div class="right">Right</div>
</div>