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CSS CSS Flexbox Layout Building a Layout with Flexbox Creating a Sticky Footer with Flexbox

Posted by Yvette Pascacsio
Yvette Pascacsio
5,522 Points

How is "flex-grow: 1" working on .row and .row hasn't been defined as a flex box?

At least, I don't see where .row is being defined as a flex box.

Benjamin Boulter
Benjamin Boulter
21,925 Points

As everyone has said, since the body is the parent element, .row can now take flex items properties. So there's no need to give display:flex to .row.

2 Answers

Eric Butler
Eric Butler
33,512 Points
Eric Butler
Eric Butler
33,512 Points

flex-grow is a child property, so you should be looking to see if it's parent element is a flex container. Here's a popular guide: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

As Eric pointed out, flex items are child elements of flexboxes. If you look in "flexbox.css" on line 6 you will see where "display: flex" is set on the body element, which is the parent of of the .row's.