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CSS CSS Flexbox Layout Flexbox Properties Smarter Layouts with flex-basis and flex

Posted by Vasilis Moutzouridis
Vasilis Moutzouridis
4,450 Points

flex-basis: 0; | items break to new lines.

it seems that items cannot shrink to 0 pixels and they break to new lines with a flex-basis set to 0;

.container { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; }

.item{ flex-grow: 1; flex-basis: 0; }

whats wrong ?

2 Answers

Dmitry Polyakov
Dmitry Polyakov
4,989 Points
Dmitry Polyakov
Dmitry Polyakov
4,989 Points

Container is set up as flex-wrap: wrap. This attribute makes all items inside the container to wrap onto a new line.

Try flex-wrap: no-wrap

Zach Hetrick
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Zach Hetrick
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,808 Points
Zach Hetrick
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Zach Hetrick
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,808 Points

Vasilis,

You're right! My guess is Guil was using an older version of Chrome? You can see Guil has 'flex-wrap: wrap' and when he sets his flex-basis to 0, his flex-items do not wrap, but mine do and it seems that yours do too. As far as I can tell, the only way to get them to not wrap is to set flex-wrap to nowrap.