Flex Container

CSS Flex Container Properties

The flex container element can have the following properties:

• display - Must be set to flex or inline-flex

• flex-direction - Sets the display-direction of flex items

• flex-wrap - Specifies whether the flex items should wrap or not

• flex-flow - Shorthand property for flex-direction and flex-wrap

• justify-content - Aligns the flex items when they do not use all available space on the main-axis (horizontally)

• align-items - Aligns the flex items when they do not use all available space on the cross-axis (vertically)

• align-content - Aligns the flex lines when there is extra space in the cross axis and flex items wrap

CSS flex-direction Property

The flex-direction property specifies the display-direction of flex items in the flex container.

This property can have one of the following values:

• row (default)

• column

• row-reverse

• column-reverse

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-direction: row;
}

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-direction: column;
}

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-direction: row-reverse;
}

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-direction: column-reverse;
}

CSS flex-wrap Property

The flex-wrap property specifies whether the flex items should wrap or not, if there is not enough room for them on one flex line.

This property can have one of the following values:

• nowrap (default)

• wrap

• wrap-reverse

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-wrap: nowrap;
}

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-wrap: wrap;
}

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-wrap: wrap-reverse;
}

CSS flex-flow Property

The flex-flow property is a shorthand property for setting both the flex-direction and flex-wrap properties.

Example

.flex-container {

  display: flex;

  flex-flow: row wrap;
}

Flex Container Subpages

Continue learning about flex container properties:

• justify-content - horizontal alignment of flex items

• align-items & align-content - vertical alignment and true centering