Flexbox - Fill remaining space [duplicate]

Question

I have a basic flexbox layout like this..

body,html {
  height:100%;
  width:100%;

}

#container {
  width:100%;
  background:grey;
  display:flex;
  flex-direction:column;
}

.top {
  background:red;
  flex:1;
  padding:20px;
}

.bottom {
  background:yellow;
  flex:1;
  padding:20px;
}

<div id="container">
	<div class="top">
  Top Content
	</div>
	<div class="bottom">
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  </div>
</div>

I am trying to make the top div fill the remaining space, the bottom div is dynamic so the height changes depending on the text. My result looks like this..

Is flexbox the best thing to use in this situation?

Answer 1

Is flexbox the best thing to use in this situation?

Yeah, it's a good idea to use flexbox in this situation.

To achieve your desired result, as I understand, you need to set height: 100% on #container so that it occupies all the space available to it. Then set flex-grow: 0 on .bottom so that it doesn't grow.

So your CSS should be:

#container {
  width:100%;
  height:100%;
  background:grey;
  display:flex;
  flex-direction:column;
}

.top {
  background:red;
  flex: 1 0 auto; // Grow, don't shrink
  padding:20px;
}

.bottom {
  background:yellow;
  flex: 0 0 auto; // don't grow, take up only needed space
  padding:20px;
}

Answer 2

First, you need to make the container occupy vertical space. height: 100%; will do that.

Second, if you want the title div not to be the same size as the following div, they shouldn't both be flex: 1;, in fact you probably want the title to be flex: 0;