Use justify-content: flex-end and to have vertical scrollbar
I have chat and I need to scroll all content to bottom. I want to use justify-content: flex-end and to have vertical scrollbar.
.session-textchat {
height: 320px;
background: #fff;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-align-items: flex-end;
align-items: flex-end;
-webkit-justify-content: space-between;
justify-content: space-between;
-webkit-flex-direction: column;
flex-direction: column;
}
.session-textchat .past-messages {
width: 100%;
max-width: 980px;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 83.92%;
overflow-y: auto;
padding: 30px 0 0;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-align-items: flex-end;
align-items: flex-end;
-webkit-justify-content: flex-end;
justify-content: flex-end;
-webkit-flex-direction: column;
flex-direction: column;
}
.session-textchat .past-messages .receiver,
.session-textchat .past-messages .sender {
width: 100%;
min-height: 47px;
margin: 0 0 20px;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-flex-direction: row;
flex-direction: row;
}
.session-textchat .past-messages .receiver .message,
.session-textchat .past-messages .sender .message {
position: relative;
padding: 17px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.session-textchat .past-messages .receiver {
text-align: left;
-webkit-justify-content: flex-start;
justify-content: flex-start;
}
.session-textchat .past-messages .receiver .message {
background: #f4f4f4;
color: #535353;
}
.session-textchat .past-messages .sender {
text-align: right;
-webkit-justify-content: flex-end;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
.session-textchat .past-messages .sender .message {
background: url('../img/rgbapng/0050ff26.png');
background: rgba(0, 80, 255, 0.15);
color: #0050ff;
}
<div class="session-textchat">
<div class="past-messages">
<div class="receiver">
<span class="message">
Good afternoon David. Welcome to your appointment! How are you today?
</span>
</div>
<div class="sender">
<span class="message">
Hello doctor. I feel terrible to be honest.
</span>
</div>
<div class="receiver">
<span class="message">
I can see from your notes that you've been having some ear ache - can you tell me a bit more about your symptoms?
</span>
</div>
<div class="sender">
<span class="message">
Hello doctor. I feel terrible to be honest.
</span>
</div>
<div class="receiver">
<span class="message">
I can see from your notes that you've been having some ear ache - can you tell me a bit more about your symptoms?
</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Example is here.
Is it possible? Or please give me better solution.
Thanks in advance!
Srdjan
I just had to face this issue myself and, after concluding it is a bug, I came up with a workaround.
In summary, don't use justify-content: flex-end
but rather put a margin-top: auto
on the first child. Unlike flex-end this doesn't break the scrollbar functionality, and it bottom-aligns the contents when they're not overflowing the container.
Example based on @SrdjanDejanovic's fiddle is at https://jsfiddle.net/peter9477/4t5r0t5b/
In case the example isn't available, here's the relevant CSS:
#container {
overflow-y: auto;
display: flex;
flex-flow: column nowrap;
/* justify-content: flex-end; DO NOT USE: breaks scrolling */
}
#container > :first-child {
margin-top: auto !important;
/* use !important to prevent breakage from child margin settings */
}
An alternative workaround that I believe I've also used is to add an extra container for the scrollbar. Use the flex-end on the inner container and have the outer container handle the scrolling. I generally dislike workarounds that require adding dummy elements though, so I prefer my CSS-only solution above.
Probably you've already solved this, but I faced this problem too and found a solution by trial and error, so I'm going to share it.
Having parent container's display set to flex display: flex
and child's items align to flex-end align-items: flex-end
will prevent overflow-y: auto
to work.
Instead, you can leave you can use next CSS properties for your parent container (in your case session-textchat
):
display: flex;
flex-direction: column-reverse; /* 'column' for start, 'column-reverse' for end */
overflow-y: scroll; /* or overflow-y: auto ... */
This will make your child div appear on the bottom of parent container (it will act like flex-end
) and enable vertical scroll if content height is bigger than parent container.
I made a little jsfiddle for you if this sounds confusing: https://jsfiddle.net/lbartolic/9od4nruy/3/
In jsfiddle you can see header part, content part and footer. Container has fixed height and each part takes required height to fill the container. Content part _b__content
will be scrollable if its content is taller than _b__content
's height.
I hope this will help someone. Cheers.
Also There is also another Solution
Remove the justify-content
and add flex: 1 1 auto;
property to the first element(create an empty div
)
Old
HTML
<div class="content-reversed">
<div>Item 1</div>
<div>Item 2</div>
<div>Item 3</div>
</div>
CSS
.content-reversed {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
New
HTML
<div class="content-reversed">
<div class="fix"></div> //add this dummy div
<div>Item 1</div>
<div>Item 2</div>
<div>Item 3</div>
</div>
CSS
.content-reversed {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.content-reversed .fix {
flex: 1 1 auto;
}