Aberrant Flexbox behavior in Safari - css

I ran into some weird flexbox behavior on safari and was hoping someone could explain it.
Codepen of minimal example
Snippet:
// Culprits
// If any of these are removed, the strange behavior goes away {}
.container {
display: flex;
}
.parent {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child {
display: flex;
flex: 0;
}
// Setup {}
.container {
border: 1px solid green;
}
.parent {
border: 1px solid red;
}
.child {
border: 2px solid blue;
width: 200px;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">
<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
It works fine in Chrome and FF, but on safari, the .child collapses — presumably because of the flex-grow: 0. What's going on?

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“white-space: nowrap;” destroys flexbox layout: Why?

This is my code:
* {
font-size: 40px;
font-family: Arial;
color: blue;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
div {
height: 100vh;
}
#one {
display: flex;
width: 100%;
}
#two,
#four {
width: 45px;
background-color: blue;
}
#three {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
}
#button,
#text {
border: 1px solid blue;
margin: 10px;
}
#text {
width: 100%;
/* overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap; */
}
<div id="one">
<div id="two">
</div>
<div id="three">
<div id="text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</div>
<div id="button">Button</div>
</div>
<div id="four">
</div>
</div>
I want to add white-space: nowrap; for the text (#text), but it destroys the layout, the areas with the blue backgrounds get lost. I saw that adding min-width: 0; or min-height: 0; could help, but it doesn't work in this case.
Has somebody an idea to fix that? Would be very thankful. :)
For clarifying: The text from #text should stay in one line, that's all.
What is happening?
The divs two, three and four are had the flex property set to its default values:
div {
flex-grow: 0;
flex-shrink: 1;
flex-base: auto
}
Which means that for each div should: calculate the "best" width (flex-base: auto), if there is enough space for the three divs there is no need to grow to fill it (flex-grow: 0), if there isn't enough space shrink them proportionally (flex-shrink: 1).
When you put white-space: nowrap; in the three div, there is not enough space (since it "best" width will be as much as is needed to hold the single long line of text.
Solution:
Add flex-shrink: 0 to the blue divs, and flex-grow: 1 and overflow: auto to the central div. This way, the blue divs will always have 45px width, and the central one will always fill the remaining space.
UPDATE
Since you now have a new div and button inside div three, there is a few additional changes: We'll make div three also a flex container, and set flex-grow and flex-shrink to appropriate values for the inner text and button.
* {
font-size: 40px;
font-family: Arial;
color: blue;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
div {
height: 100px; /* You'll probably want a lower height */
}
#one {
display: flex;
width: 100%;
}
#two,
#four {
flex-shrink: 0; /* no shrink */
width: 45px;
background-color: blue;
}
#three {
display: flex;
flex-grow: 1; /* fill all available space */
width: 0px; /* will grow from 0px to fill all space*/
}
#text {
flex-grow: 1; /* fill all available space */
border: 1px solid blue;
margin: 10px;
white-space: nowrap; /* moved from "#three" */
overflow: auto; /* moved from "#three" */
}
#button {
flex-shrink: 0; /* no shrink */
border: 1px solid blue;
margin: 10px;
}
<div id="one">
<div id="two">
</div>
<div id="three">
<div id="text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</div>
<div id="button">Button</div>
</div>
<div id="four">
</div>
</div>
According to MDN, setting white-space: nowrap "suppresses line breaks (text wrapping) within the source." This means that all of your line breaks will be gone for that element and it will go on horizontally as long as there is text.
But to keep everything within the viewport and keep the blue bars around the text, you should first wrap your Lorem Ipsum text in a p tag or other text element, and then change your CSS to something like this:
:root {
--bar_width: 45px;
}
* {
font-size: 40px;
font-family: Arial;
color: blue;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
div {
height: 100vh;
}
#one {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
justify-content: space-between;
width: 100vw;
}
#two,
#four {
width: var(--bar_width);
background-color: blue;
}
#three p {
max-width: calc(95vw - (2 * var(--bar_width)));
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: scroll;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="one">
<div id="two">
</div>
<div id="three">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</p>
</div>
<div id="four">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This adds an overflow property set to scroll so that the text can be reached without it streching out the viewport. I also set the max width the element can take up so that CSS knows when to start cutting off the text. I also added flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; to your #one selector so that the elements space out horizontally.
You can now change the max-width property set in the #three p selector to any value you want and the text (with scroll) will be centered between the blue bars.
You need to set the flex-basis property of div#three, div#two, and div#four to something like 33.3%
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/flex-basis
You're also setting the height of all divs to 100vh, and when the overflow occurs on your inner block elements, it doesn't know where to stop unless you truncate the text: https://css-tricks.com/flexbox-truncated-text/
* {
font-size: 40px;
font-family: Arial;
color: blue;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
#one {
display: flex;
width: 100%;
}
#two,
#four {
flex-basis: 33%;
width: 45px;
background-color: blue;
}
#three {
width: 100%;
flex-basis: 33%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow-x: hidden;
/* white-space: nowrap; */
}
<div id="one">
<div id="two">
</div>
<div id="three">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.
</div>
<div id="four">
</div>
</div>

Set same height as other divs, without javascript, and inside flexbox

I am trying to achieve this:
I set a max-width to my paragraph, and I want the two images to have the same height as the paragraph. But the problem is I have a complex flexbox design, as shown below.
Red and green boxes are divs with display: flex property, and blue boxes are content. I made this schema to make the whole thing responsive for small landscape screens (sorry my 2nd drawing looks like it's on mobile).
Large screens:
Small screens:
So here is what I have right now, with height: 100% on the images:
Is there a way to do this in pure CSS? I tried javascript but there are conflicts between flexbox and JS, which lead to this: video of how my JS/CSS conflict looks like
Thanks!
body {
min-height: 100vh;
position: relative;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
padding: 1em;
background-color: cornsilk;
}
#row1 {
display: inline-flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
#row1 #row1_col1 {
display: inline-flex;
}
#row1 #row1_col1 #photo {
margin-right: 2em;
margin-right: 2em;
}
#row1 #row1_col1 p {
background-color: coral;
height: fit-content;
width: fit content;
text-align: justify;
width: 31em;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
}
#row1 #map {
margin-left: 2em;
}
<div id="row1">
<div id="row1_col1">
<img src="http://via.placeholder.com/400x400" id="photo" class="about_imgs">
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing. <br> <br>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Uot enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud. <br> <br>
xcepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proiden.
</p>
</div>
<img src="http://via.placeholder.com/1053x526" id="map" class="about_imgs">
</div>
There are several ways to do this, first of all, you should make both of used align-items property have flex-start attribute just like this: align-items: flex-start; as I did in the below snippet to make sure all your items begin from the same place (keep in mind this is optional and for making sure all your items will begin from the same certain point in the UI, and if you don't want to do this you can skip this), the second thing you must consider is the p tag does the default margin from top and bottom so to override it with margin: 0; in the p tag itself. The last and important thing at all you should define a fixed height for your p tag also, and make sure your photos wouldn't pass a certain point with the max-height property, so you have to add this property to both of your images. You can see the results below:
body {
min-height: 100vh;
position: relative;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
padding: 1em;
background-color: cornsilk;
}
#row1 {
display: inline-flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: flex-start;
}
#row1 #row1_col1 {
display: inline-flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: flex-start;
max-height: 100px;
}
#row1 #row1_col1 #photo {
max-height: 200px;
margin-right: 2em;
}
#row1 #row1_col1 p {
background-color: coral;
height: fit-content;
width: fit content;
text-align: justify;
width: 31em;
height: 200px;
margin: 0;
}
#row1 #map {
max-height: 200px;
margin-left: 2em;
}
<div id="row1">
<div id="row1_col1">
<img src="http://via.placeholder.com/400x400" id="photo" class="about_imgs">
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing. <br> <br> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Uot enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud. <br> <br> xcepteur
sint occaecat cupidatat non proiden.
</p>
</div>
<img src="http://via.placeholder.com/1053x526" id="map" class="about_imgs">
</div>
NOTE: I just used 200px for the fixed height for more illustration it could be whatever you want to.

How to make an element fill the remaining viewport height?

I'd like to use CSS Grid. Something like this I think…
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
min-height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: auto auto [whatever's left of the vh] auto auto;
position: relative;
}
Set the viewport with display: flex and height: 100vh and add to the last element
flex-grow: 1
.viewportDiv {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 100vh;
}
.div1{
background-color: yellow;
height: 100px;
}
.remainingDiv{
background-color: red;
flex-grow: 1;
}
<div class="viewportDiv">
<div class="div1"></div>
<div class="remainingDiv"></div>
</div>
Using CSS Grid you need to wrap the top two elements and the remaining space and then apply display: grid to that.
In other words, your diagram actually was the solution.
The wrapper should have a height of 100vh…
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0;
min-height: 100%;
background: pink;
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 100vh auto auto;
position: relative;
}
.wrapper {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: auto auto 1fr;
}
header {
background: green;
padding: .25em;
}
nav {
background: orangered;
padding: .25em;
}
main {
background: rebeccapurple;
}
footer {
background: yellow;
}
.subfooter {
background: blue;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<header>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Ratione magnam placeat quia iusto, quisquam cum temporibus modi, ex dolorem velit fuga! Minima, ex.
</header>
<nav>
Lorem ipsum dolor, sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit.
</nav>
<main></main>
</div>
<footer>Lorem, ipsum.</footer>
<div class="subfooter">Lorem ipsum dolor, sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Ex dignissimos ratione maxime officia eum. ea!
</div>
You can do it using flex.
.a {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
.remaining {
width: 100%;
flex-grow: 1;
}
.holder {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 100%;
}
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
HTML code:
<div class="holder">
<div class="a">
Content here
</div>
<div class="a">
Content here
</div>
<div class="remaining">
Content here
</div>
</div>

How to truncate long text with ellipsis but always show icon after ellipsis

What I'm trying to accomplish is a title which fills its available parent div width, but if its copy doesn't fit in the div it should truncate with ellipsis. Additionally it should also have an icon after it, which shouldn't disappear on truncation, but always show after the ellipsis.
Another requirement is that the parent div should have one or more buttons, of not-specific width, that stay on the far right, but if the div is resized it should truncate the long title, allowing the icon to show next to the ellipsis as I described before.
Visually, my desired result looks like this:
Up until now I've achieved the following:
/* Helper styles not relevant to the example */
/* Simple flag object from #csswizardry */
.flag {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
.flag .flag__section {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
/* Right float text from bootstrap */
.text-right {
text-align: right !important;
}
/* Colors for better visibility */
.container {
background-color: #55606d;
color: #333;
padding: 20px;
}
.flag__section--a {
background-color: #22d398;
}
.flag__section--b {
background-color: #91c1f8;
}
.fluid-text__icon {
background-color: #fecb52;
}
/* Styles relevant to the example */
.container {
max-width: 700px;
}
.fluid-text {
text-align: left;
}
.fluid-text__inner {
max-width: 100%;
}
.fluid-text__inner,
.fluid-text__copy {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
.fluid-text__copy,
.fluid-text__icon {
float: left;
}
.fluid-text__copy {
padding-right: 5px;
}
.fluid-text__icon {
margin-top: 30px;
}
/* I'd like to not set explicit max width here */
.title {
max-width: 600px;
}
<div class='container'>
<div class='flag'>
<div class='flag__section flag__section--a fluid-text'>
<div class='fluid-text__inner'>
<h1 class='fluid-text__copy title'>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Doloremque earum in, voluptas dolorum sit ab modi facere tempora est, sequi molestiae! Commodi vitae sapiente ipsum, nisi facilis impedit aut? Repellendus!
</h1>
<span class='fluid-text__icon'>icon</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class='flag__section flag__section--b text-right'>
<button>ACTION</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
However, my only concern is that I have to explicitly set .title max-width which is not scalable and I would like to avoid it.
Is there any way to do it without js?
Flexbox can solve this, we just have to expend the ellipsis to the .description div and make a few minor tweaks.
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.parent {
width: 80%;
margin: auto;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding: .5em;
border: 1px solid grey;
}
.description {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
.text {
flex: 1;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
.icon {
flex: 0 0 auto;
background-color: rebeccapurple;
color: white;
padding: .5em;
margin: 0 .25em;
}
.button {
flex: 0 0 auto;
background-color: #ccc;
padding: .5em;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="description">
<span class="text">Lorem sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit doloremque earum in, voluptas dolorum sit ab modi facere tempora est, sequi molestiae! Commodi vitae sapiente ipsum, nisi facilis impedit aut? Repellendus!</span>
<span class="icon">I</span>
<span class="icon">I</span>
<span class="icon">I</span>
<span class="icon">I</span>
</div>
<div class="button">
Button
</div>
</div>
<div class="parent">
<div class="description">
<span class="text">Lorem sit amet</span>
<span class="icon">I</span>
<span class="icon">I</span>
</div>
<div class="button">
Button
</div>
</div>
The following uses flex and relies on the known width of the button which seems like the use-case here. The whole contained can have dynamic size, of course. The icon can be any size, too.
.parent {
width: 400px;
background-color: yellow;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.description {
width: calc(100% - 50px);
display: flex;
}
.text {
display: inline-block;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
.icon {
display: inline-block;
background-color: tomato;
}
.button {
width: 50px;
background-color: blue;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="description">
<span class="text">Lorem sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit doloremque earum in, voluptas dolorum sit ab modi facere tempora est, sequi molestiae! Commodi vitae sapiente ipsum, nisi facilis impedit aut? Repellendus!</span>
<span class="icon">ICON</span>
</div>
<div class="button">
Button
</div>
</div>
<div class="parent">
<div class="description">
<span class="text">Lorem sit amet</span>
<span class="icon">ICON</span>
</div>
<div class="button">
Button
</div>
</div>

Vertical alignment on text and fontawesome icon

I want to create a custom alert box with bootstrap.
But the vertical aligment of the text and the icon, does not work. So here`s the code:
HTML:
<div class="alert-box alert-box-info text-center clearfix" style="display: inline-block;">
<i class="fa fa-info text-info pull-left"></i>
<div class="text text-info"><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</p></div>
</div>
CSS:
.alert-box
{
margin: 20px 0;
border: 1px solid #dbdbdb;
display: inline-block;
height: 100px;
}
.alert-box .fa {
font-size: 40px;
padding-left: 20px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.alert-box .text {
margin: 0px;
display: table-cell;
width: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.alert-box-info
{
background: #f4f8fa;
border-bottom: 3px solid #5bc0de;
}
.alert-box-info h4
{
color: #5bc0de;
}
The jsFiddle Demo
Can somebody tell me, why the vertical alignment does not work and how I can fix that?
Answer was completely updated as a result of the answer to this question.
Your layout should be achievable with flex-box. Just add on the container:
display: flex;
align-items:center;
Anything table related of vertical align related should be removed from all places. You can create your desired layout by forcing table layout on some elements, but that is not the way to go here since you don't have a real table and tabular data.
Note: We need to explicitly add flex-shrink: 0 on the small columns on the edges because of a Chrome bug (just fixed for FF 34) that causes incorrect shrinking. According to the specs, there should not happen any shrinking by default.
Demo:
.alert-box
{
margin: 20px;
border: 1px solid #dbdbdb;
display: flex;
align-items:center;
height: 100px
}
.alert-box .fa {
font-size: 40px;
padding-left: 20px;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.alert-box .text {
margin: 0px;
flex-grow: 1;
}
.alert-box-info
{
background: #f4f8fa;
border-bottom: 3px solid #5bc0de;
}
.alert-box-info h4
{
color: #5bc0de;
}
.alert-btn {
flex-shrink: 0;
}
<link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="alert-box alert-box-info text-center clearfix">
<i class="fa fa-info text-info"></i>
<div class="text text-info"><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</p></div>
<div class="alert-btn">Test</div>
</div>
Simplest way is to change style of div:
<div class="alert-box alert-box-info text-center clearfix" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;">
JavaScript is the best option here. I've added transition for line-height for smooth alignment.
Fiddle
function doMath() {
document.getElementsByClassName('fa-info')[0].style.lineHeight = document.getElementsByClassName('text')[0].clientHeight + 'px';
}
doMath();
window.onresize = doMath;
.alert-box {
margin: 20px 0;
border: 1px solid #dbdbdb;
display: table;
}
.alert-box .fa {
font-size: 40px;
padding-left: 20px;
display: table-cell;
transition: line-height 0.1s;
}
.alert-box .text {
padding: 20px;
margin: 0px;
display: table-cell;
width: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.alert-box-info {
background: #f4f8fa;
border-bottom: 3px solid #5bc0de;
}
.alert-box-info h4 {
color: #5bc0de;
}
<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<div class="alert-box alert-box-info text-center clearfix" style="display: inline-block;"> <i class="fa fa-info text-info pull-left"></i>
<div class="text text-info">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</p>
</div>
</div>
The easiest way to vertical align a text if it has only 1 row is the line-height properties:
.alert-box .fa {
font-size: 40px;
padding-left: 20px;
line-height: 100px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Clear/qnj3ohqh/15/

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