Set flexbox children to have different heights to use up available space
Using a two-column flexbox layout, how can different-sized children be made to fill all available space, instead of all children having the height of the tallest child of the row?
I set up a demo on jsbin that illustrates the problem. I'd like for all the children to be the size of their wrapped contents.
#container {
width: 800px;
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.cell {
width: 300px;
flex; 1 auto;
}
<div id="container">
<div class="cell">
Cells with arbitrarily long content.</div>
<div class="cell">
</div>
<div class="cell">
</div>
<div class="cell">
</div>
<div class="cell">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This is how Flexbox rows are expected to behave. Flexbox is not meant to recreate Masonry with pure CSS: items in one row cannot occupy space allocated for a preceding/following row (same goes for columns if you're using column orientation). You can use align-items to prevent them from stretching, but that's about it:
http://cssdeck.com/labs/9s9rhrhl
#container {
width: 800px;
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
align-items: flex-start;
}
.cell {
width: 300px;
flex: 1 auto;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid red;
}
Otherwise, you should be using the column orientation or the multi-column module (see this SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20862961/1652962)