Making a flex item float right

Question

I have a

<div class="parent">
    <div class="child" style="float:right"> Ignore parent? </div>
    <div> another child </div>
</div>

The parent has

.parent {
    display: flex;
}

For my first child, I want to simply float the item to the right.

And my other divs to follow the flex rule set by the parent.

Is this something possible?

If not, how do I do a float: right under flex?

Answer 1

You can't use float inside flex container and the reason is that float property does not apply to flex-level boxes as you can see here Fiddle.

So if you want to position child element to right of parent element you can use margin-left: auto but now child element will also push other div to the right as you can see here Fiddle.

What you can do now is change order of elements and set order: 2 on child element so it doesn't affect second div

.parent {
  display: flex;
}
.child {
  margin-left: auto;
  order: 2;
}

<div class="parent">
  <div class="child">Ignore parent?</div>
  <div>another child</div>
</div>