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CSS

Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Layout break

So I am working on a little ui-kit and I've made alerts and for some odd reason they stretch their parent container.

You can see the layout here http://johnweland.github.io/cltsd/

if you dismiss the alert in the side bar you can see the sidebar container shrink to the width its supposed to be. You can find the code here. https://github.com/johnweland/cltsd

But for example my alerts sass is as follows. 

.alert {
  max-width: 100%;
  padding-left: 0.857em; // distance to match that of .alert__trigger.
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
}

.alert__trigger {
  align-self: flex-start;
  width: 40px;
  min-height: 40px;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

@each $theme, $color in $ui-colors {
  .alert--#{$theme} {
    background-color: $color;
    color: $white;
  }
}
John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

I've done some more testing and text seems to push my flex boxes wider instead of said text breaking and wrapping.

John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

update ::

[class^="site-"] {
  margin: .3em;
  flex-basis: 0; // Fixes odd layout issue... Hack?
  flex-grow: 1;
}

setting flex-basis to 0 seems ot fix the issue, though I'm not sure if that is a hack or proper coding....