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CSS

Posted by Boris Kamp
Boris Kamp
16,660 Points

Flex child not stretching to full height of parent

Hi guys!

One quick question I'm not able to find the solution to myself. I have a flex parent with flex-direction: column now the child is not stretching the full height of the parent. When I remove the flex-direction: column on the parent, it does stretch. Here's the beta page where this can be seen: http://emcdeadviseur.wpengine.com/diensten/de-iso-adviseur/

You see three tiles, one with a unordered list and two without. The heading of the tile is a link, now what I want is when the tile has no list, the heading link to stretch to the full height of the tile. the .dienst__content is the div in question. align-content or align-items :stretch does not work on .dienst__content either.

how can I achieve this?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Alejandro Narvaja
PLUS
Alejandro Narvaja
Courses Plus Student 7,340 Points
Alejandro Narvaja
Alejandro Narvaja
Courses Plus Student 7,340 Points

Look at that you flex parent don't had a justify-content specificied. Or try justify-content: stretch;

parent-element {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
}

child-element {
     justify-content: stretch;
}

Tell me if works.

Boris Kamp
Boris Kamp
16,660 Points

Hi @alejandronarvaja,

Thanks for your answer! This does not work though, when I apply justify-content: stretch; on the heading h3 element, it still does not vertically stretch...