CSS flex-grow Property
Description
The flex-grow
property determines how much space a flex can occupy inside a container. Numbers are taken as the value, they set the proportions of each flex. For example, if all elements are set to 1, then they will be of equal size. If some element gets the value 2, then its size will be twice as large as the rest.
- Initial value
- 0
- Applies to
- Flex items, including in-flow pseudo-elements
- Inherited
- No
- Media
- Visual
- Computed value
- As specified
- Animatable
- Yes
- CSS Version
- CSS3
- JavaScript syntax
- object.style.flexGrow
Syntax
flex-grow: <number>
Values
- <number>Integers (1, 2, 3, ...) or fractional numbers (for example: 0.6) are accepted. Negative values are ignored.
Example
<h4>This is a Flex-Grow</h4>
<h5>A,B,C and F are flex-grow:1 . D and E are flex-grow:2 .</h5>
<div id="content">
<div class="box" style="background-color:red;">A</div>
<div class="box" style="background-color:lightblue;">B</div>
<div class="box" style="background-color:yellow;">C</div>
<div class="box1" style="background-color:brown;">D</div>
<div class="box1" style="background-color:lightgreen;">E</div>
<div class="box" style="background-color:brown;">F</div>
</div>
#content {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-around;
flex-flow: row wrap;
align-items: stretch;
}
.box {
flex-grow: 1;
border: 3px solid rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}
.box1 {
flex-grow: 2;
border: 3px solid rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}
Browser Support
Desktop | |||||
11 | 12 | 29 | 20 | 12.1 | 9 |
Tablets / Mobile | |||||
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4.4 | 29 | 20 | 12.1 | 9 | ? |
Last updated by CSSPortal on: 4th November 2019
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