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justify-self not working in Flexbox issue [Solved]

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# justify-self not working in Flexbox issue [Solved]

The justify-self CSS property doesn't work in flexbox because we are always dealing with moving the entire group of items around when it comes to flexbox.

You can set the margin-left CSS property to auto if you need to align a flex item to the right.

We set the margin-left CSS property on the element that has a class of right to align it to the right.

Here is an example where the parent div only contains 1 flex item with its margin-left property set to auto .

As noted in this section of the MDN docs, you can't use justify-self in flexbox because it justifies all flex items as a group.

If you have two flex items that you need to align to the left and right, you can also set the justify-content CSS property to space-between .

When the justify-content CSS property is set to space-between , the flex items are evenly distributed within the container along the main axis.

The spacing between each pair of adjacent items is the same.

Let's look at a different example.

Here is the starting point.

We set the margin-left CSS property on the past p element to auto to align it to the right.

If you also set the margin-right CSS property on the same element to auto , you will center it in the remaining space.

Now suppose, we want to have the first p element aligned to the left, the next two centered and the fourth p element aligned to the right.

The only thing we had to change to center the middle two p elements in the remaining space is to set the margin-left CSS property on the second p element to auto .

And here is the right class.

Now the first p element is aligned to the left, the second two are centered and the last p element is aligned to the right.

Using this approach is responsive because we used auto margins and the empty space is distributed equally.

Half the left margin goes to the fourth p element and the other half goes to the second p element.

# Conclusion

The justify-self CSS property has no effect when using flexbox.

However, the property works when you use grid or the display CSS property is set to block .

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Flexbox Align Self: Stretch doesn't work in Safari

Site: Webflow Example Page: https://www.royaltyexoticcars.com/cars/2016-ferrari-california-t-convertible

Note: I reworked the html/css to create a working version, but the align self stretch issue is still a bug

Can you enable your share link? We cannot access that link directly into your work.

@Waldo @PixelGeek @bart Any update on this?

*Original post on october 3rd (and i remember someone posting something similar before as well)

More recent link to test: http://royaltyexoticcars.webflow.io/cars/rent-a-2014-lamborghini-gallardo-convertible

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CSS Reference

Css properties, css align-self property.

Center the alignments for one of the items inside a flexible element:

More "Try it Yourself" examples below.

Definition and Usage

The align-self property specifies the alignment in the block direction for the selected item inside a flexbox or grid container.

For pages in English, block direction is downward and inline direction is left to right.

Tip: To align a grid item in the inline direction instead of the block direction, use justify-self or justify-items properties.

Note: The align-self property overrides the grid or flexible container's align-items property.

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Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

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Property Values

More examples, align-self in grid layout.

Set alignment at the end in the block direction for a single grid item with the align-self property:

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Formal syntax

The align-self CSS property aligns flex items of the current flex line overriding the align-items value. If any of the item's cross-axis margin is set to auto , then align-self is ignored.

The property doesn't apply to block-level boxes, or to table cells.

• In absolutely-positioned layouts, the keyword behaves like start on replaced absolutely-positioned boxes, and as stretch on all other absolutely-positioned boxes.
• In static position of absolutely-positioned layouts, the keyword behaves as stretch .
• For flex items, the keyword behaves as stretch .
• For grid items, this keyword leads to a behavior similar to the one of stretch , except for boxes with an aspect ratio or an intrinsic sizes where it behaves like start .
• The property doesn't apply to block-level boxes, and to table cells.

Specifications

Browser compatibility.

[1] Firefox supports only single-line flexbox until Firefox 27. To activate flexbox support, for Firefox 18 and 19, the user has to change the about:config preference layout.css.flexbox.enabled to true .

In addition to the unprefixed support, Gecko 48.0 (Firefox 48.0 / Thunderbird 48.0 / SeaMonkey 2.45) added support for a -webkit prefixed version of the property for web compatibility reasons behind the preference layout.css.prefixes.webkit , defaulting to false . Since Gecko 49.0 (Firefox 49.0 / Thunderbird 49.0 / SeaMonkey 2.46) the preference defaults to true .

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Align-self code not working

The align-self property controls the align-items for individual items. Note that align-items controls vertical alignment. But while all flex items are the same height and the container’s height is auto , it can’t do anything, because everything is vertically the same. You would have to either have items of differing height, or set a height for the container grater than the item height. Also see you have a typo in the first .box class, that should be .box1

What effect were you looking to achieve?

Like @SamA74 says, align items work in the vertical, and you do have the box/box1 typo. I also noticed the align-item in box2, and nothing in box3.

The box2 item is a bit misleading because it’s the same height as the box3, and flex defaults to take up the space of the largest container.

To make it a bit easier to see, I tweaked yours to set the boxes to a smaller height, specified a height on the container itself, and set each box to a different align-items,

On a side note. White spaces can be your friend but can also be your biggest enemy. Eliminating unneeded white space probably would reduce some errors because they’ll be easier to spot.

I was just trying to understand the concept.

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Let's start with a simple example. It is important to note that the width of a select element will be as wide as its longest option.

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Uncommenting the last line direction: rtl; will move the text inside the element to the left. In Chrome you could simply use text-align: left; however this will not work in Safari.

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justify-self

The justify-self property in CSS sets the justification of an element within its containing block. Its behavior depends on the display of the containing block. For example, if the containing block is a grid container (i.e. display: grid ), we can justify the element in it along the “inline” axis (which, in turn, can be vertical or horizontal based on the content direction ).

justify-self is defined in the CSS Box Alignment Module Level 3 specification .

Let’s talk about direction

Direction is a relative thing in CSS. You may be used to thinking of direction in terms of offsets, like top , bottom , left and right . But not all languages think in the same left-to-right (LTR) orientation. That’s why CSS is leaning hard in the direction (pun intended) of logical properties .

Logical properties in CSS take the direction , text-orientation , and writing-mode of the content into consideration, then treat the inline and block directions accordingly. So, in a left-to-right writing mode, inline means left and right, and block means top and bottom. In a vertical writing mode, inline means top and bottom, and block means left and right. That’s the “logic” in logical properties, like margin-inline and margin-block among many other properties.

What does this have to do with justify-self ? Well, it uses keyword values — like start and end  — that mean different things in different contexts. justify-self aligns an element along the inline axis which is horizontal in an LTR writing mode, but otherwise vertical.

Basic keyword values

• auto : The default value. It behaves like the normal value when the element isn’t contained within a parent, and when the element is inside a parent that is absolutely-positioned (i.e. position: absolute ). Otherwise, it’ll inherit the justify-items value of the parent element, like when the element is in a grid container.
• Block-level layouts ( start )
• Grid layouts  stretch
• Flexbox (ignored)
• Table cells (ignored)
• Absolutely-positioned layouts ( start )
• Absolutely-positioned boxes ( stretch )
• Replaced absolutely-positioned boxes ( start )
• stretch : This forces the element to take up as much space as it can in the containing element, taking other items in the container into consideration, of course. How much does it stretch? It depends on the computed width and height of the element itself, which need to be set to auto for this value to take effect. And heads up: if either margin along the alignment axis is set to auto , we don’t get any stretching.

Position keyword values

• start : The element is “packed” along the starting edge of the container. By “packed” we mean the element’s starting edge aligns with the container’s starting edge and the element doesn’t stretch to fill the rest of the available space.
• end : The element is “packed” along the ending edge of the container.
• center : The element is packed along the center of the alignment axis.
• left : The element is packed along the left edge of the container. If the alignment axis is inline, then this is effectively the same thing as start .
• right : The element is packed along the right edge of the container. If the alignment axis is inline, then this is effectively the same thing as end .
• flex-start : When the element is not a flex item in a flexible container (i.e. a container not set to display: flex ), this value behaves like start .
• flex-end : When the element is not a flex item in a flexible container, this value behaves like end .
• self-start : The element is packed along its own starting edge, which depends on its direction.
• self-end : The element is packed along its own ending edge, which depends on its direction.

Baseline keyword values

These align the element’s first or last baseline with the corresponding baseline of its alignment context.

• The fallback alignment for  first baseline  is  safe start .
• The fallback alignment for  last baseline  is  safe end .
• baseline  corresponds to  first baseline  when used alone.

Overflow keyword values

The  overflow  property determines how it will display the contents of the grid when the content exceeds the grid’s boundary limits. So, when the contents are larger than the alignment container, it will result in overflow  which might lead to data loss . To prevent this, we can use the  safe  value which tells browser to change alignment so that there is no data loss.

• safe : The element will behave as though the alignment mode is start if it overflows the containing element.
• unsafe : The element’s alignment value is respected, regardless of the size of the containing element which allows the element to overflow the containing element if its size exceeds the available space.

More information

Fun times with sizing grid elements.

Grid areas and the element that occupies them aren’t necessarily the same size.

Related properties

Align-content.

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Justify-content, justify-items.

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Align-self: stretch; does not work. and i can't see the preview. neither in safari nor chrome.

The preview does not seem to work, making it hard to complete the task

Trevor Johnson

Hi Simon, You need to use the flex-grow property on the flex-child column element instead of align-self. The flex-grow determines what amount of the available space a flex-child should take up based on the input value.

Your code should look like this:

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Flex justify align "end" not working on Safari but "flex-end" works #5562

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[solved] CSS grid not displaying correctly on actual mobile browsers (all displays correctly when testing mobile screens on desktop though )

CSS grid is not displaying correctly on actual mobile browsers (all displays correctly when testing mobile screens on desktop though). EDIT: The issue here happens only on Safari IOS.

i.e. Browser debugging is misleading. This is inconsistent and not how this should work.

What am I missing?

See this for the solution: [solved] Need workaround to make CSS grid work on IOS Safari

My best guess would be that CopePen is rendering the page for a desktop, on your phone. That being said, the devTools that come with Chrome are very powerful, and could be fixing any media-query related CSS for you.

Basically, if you resize your browser, without using the dedicated devTools you will see that the page is not responsive anyway.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for writing @Sky020 !

The same actually happens outside Codepen (I’ve just deployed to Netlify).

Could you clarify further what you mean with “if you resize your browser, without using the dedicated devTools you will see that the page is not responsive anyway.”?

Reason is: I’ve just deployed the code on Netlify and when I resize the browser without the dedicated devTools I do not have issues with styling.

I guess my issue with this is that I’m lacking trust on devTools to code with CSS grid. Is this common? Is there anything else I may have gotten really wrong here? Or should I simply not trust devTools and go ahead and implement some media queries?

Quick fix. I am running late.

See how that works.

Thanks again for reverting @Sky020 ! I’m really kind of lost with this styling!

Sadly your suggestion didn’t fix it. See attachment.

I’m also struggling even to fix it with any type of media queries (while still keeping it CSS grid based). Nothing seems to fix it.

I’d love to

understand that discrepancy between desktop debugging of mobile screens, but also

looking for suggestions for any media queries that might fix this styling - keeping it CSS grid based (because nothing I implement is fixing it).

This discrepancy only happens on IOS devices. (i.e. everything running Safari - and all rest given they are all Safari on IOS).

according to https://caniuse.com/#search=grid , IOS safari should render css grid, but I’m seemingly doing something very wrong here… Pointers welcome.

Sorry to see it is not working. Unfortunately, I am unable to emulate it on my laptop. It is concerning that there is a discrepancy between the debug tools and Safari.

Here is something that might help, but I cannot test it:

Note: The values “flex” and “inline-flex” requires the -webkit- prefix to work in Safari. w3schools w3schools display

Have a look at those, and, at least for all of your display properties, add the -webkit- prefix for Safari. Browser Support

Thanks. I’ve applied all types of CSS prefixers but nothing.

For others in the future: Safari IOS does not support extrinsic sizing with grid properties such as grid-template-columns. Check known issues at: https://caniuse.com/#search=grid

I have no solution to this, nor a workaround, at this stage.

See my response in your other thread about the intrinsic/extrinsic sizing.

FYI. The browser can not emulate devices. For true cross browser testing you need to test on the actual devices. There are online tools (mainly commercial) that you can use as well.