Flexbox and Internet Explorer 11 (display:flex in ?)

Question

According to http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox:

"IE10 and IE11 default values for flex are 0 0 auto rather than 0 1 auto, as per the draft spec, as of September 2013"

So in plain words, if somewhere in your CSS you have something like this: flex:1 , that is not translated the same way in all browsers. Try changing it to 1 0 0 and I believe you will immediately see that it -kinda- works.

The problem is that this solution will probably mess up firefox, but then you can use some hacks to target only Mozilla and change it back:

@-moz-document url-prefix() {
 #flexible-content{
      flex: 1;
    }
}

Since flexbox is a W3C Candidate and not official, browsers tend to give different results, but I guess that will change in the immediate future.

If someone has a better answer I would like to know!

Use another flex container to fix the min-height issue in IE10 and IE11:

HTML

<div class="ie-fixMinHeight">
    <div id="page">
        <div id="header"></div>
        <div id="content"></div>
        <div id="footer"></div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.ie-fixMinHeight {
    display:flex;
}

#page {
    min-height:100vh;
    width:100%;
    display:flex;
    flex-direction:column;
}

#content {
    flex-grow:1;
}

See a working demo.

Don't use flexbox layout directly on body because it screws up elements inserted via jQuery plugins (autocomplete, popup, etc.).
Don't use height:100% or height:100vh on your container because the footer will stick at the bottom of window and won't adapt to long content.
Use flex-grow:1 rather than flex:1 cause IE10 and IE11 default values for flex are 0 0 auto and not 0 1 auto.

You just need flex:1; It will fix issue for the IE11. I second Odisseas. Additionally assign 100% height to html,body elements.

CSS changes:

html, body{
    height:100%;
}
body {
    border: red 1px solid;
    min-height: 100vh;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: -webkit-flex;
    display: flex;
    -ms-flex-direction: column;
    -webkit-flex-direction: column;
    flex-direction: column;
}
header {
    background: #23bcfc;
}
main {
    background: #87ccfc;
    -ms-flex: 1;
    -webkit-flex: 1;
    flex: 1;
}
footer {
    background: #dd55dd;
}

working url: http://jsfiddle.net/3tpuryso/13/

Sometimes it's as simple as adding: '-ms-' in front of the style Like -ms-flex-flow: row wrap; to get it to work also.

Flexbox and Internet Explorer 11 (display:flex in <html>?)

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