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CSS CSS Flexbox Layout Flexbox Properties Growing and Aligning Flex Items

Alberto Cruz
Alberto Cruz
4,955 Points
Posted by Alberto Cruz
Alberto Cruz
4,955 Points

How to make flex items stretch on the cross-axis to fill the parent container.

A challenge is asking me to do this but I know that the default for items is to fill the container vertically...

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.row {
  display: flex;
}

.column {
  align-self: stretch;
}

1 Answer

Garrett Thomsen
Garrett Thomsen
Courses Plus Student 14,474 Points

i did the challenge and this worked for me

.row { display: flex; }

.column { flex-grow:100% ; }

i went here https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_flex.asp to see info on hiw ti use this.

Alberto Cruz
Alberto Cruz
4,955 Points
Alberto Cruz
Alberto Cruz
4,955 Points

Hi Garrett, Thank you. I was able to figure it out. I used flex-grow: 1.