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CSS CSS Flexbox Layout Building a Layout with Flexbox Aligning Items to the Bottom of a Column

Posted by Samuel Kleos
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Samuel Kleos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 12,719 Points

Why does the button stretch past the content width without specifying any width properties?

The buttons stretch their content width to fit the .col div.

However when the align-self: flex-start; rule is applied to .button the button shrinks the size of the content width to the length of the text. 

@media screen and (min-width: 769px) {

        .main-header,
        .main-nav,
        .row,
        .col {
            display: flex;
        }

    .main-header {
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: center;
    }

    .col {
        flex: 1;
        flex-direction: column;
    }
    .button {
        margin-top: auto;
        align-self: flex-start;
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,695 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,695 Points

The default value of align-self is auto, which causes the item to stretch to fill the available space.

For more details, see the MDN page on align-self.