Finally understanding Flexbox flex-grow, flex-shrink and flex-basis! - Tutorial 11 of 20 💪

Get full control the size of your elements flex-grow, flex-shrink and flex-basis All videos + exercises → Flexbox.io

[@i-heart-google7132]

Bro, you're better than the official documentation and all those lame tutorials combined! Great work!

[@jarrychen2096]

I spent a lot of time reading the documentation, but eventually understood it in your ten minutes video! So incredible.

[@ajcics]

You're an incredible teacher. Thank you

[@arifulislamadil4295]

i have watched lots of youtube videos about flex-grow and shrink., i really didn't understand them properly after i watched this it's gave the clear concept about flex-grow and flex-shrink.Thank you very much Wes Bos

[@suyashpurwar8310]

This video was really helpful! Helped a lot! I was very confused when it comes to these three properties. Thanks a lot!!

[@Powerful-Manifestor-]

Watching all other videos, I wondered why the width of one is not in proportion to the other. You made it so clear that the extra room is divided in that proportion. Awesome! Two questions: 1. What is flex-basis when flex:1 is used? 2. What is the difference between using width vs flex-basis on a flex item?

[@rafayzia4180]

love your gentle voice bro ! thank you :)

[@matthewbell5282]

Really, really well explained - thank you!

[@nellypolly6639]

this video gave me more understanding of flex shorthand. Thank you

[@debi199]

thanks for all the efort and love

[@Stone_624]

This is a beautiful explanation, Thank you!

[@ankurc]

Thank you. You made it very clear!

[@StrangeIndeed]

I had to refresh my memory about flexbox, and this video was great for that, thank you c;

[@shivarammuthukumaraswamy7164]

Thank You so much for the clear explanation

[@prajwalpandeshwar9967]

Thankyou so much for such an easy explanation!!

[@HarpreetSingh-vf6lu]

Can you explain the math of why we use 1? What calculations are done for use to know which number to use and what it does for flex grow? Thank you.

[@lddonovan]

Great tutorial!

[@ronishlopchan2020]

great content!

[@dudakoff1000]

You are a gem. The CSS tricks article dedicated to this topic failed me this time

[@ahmedam77]

great video!

[@boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii2612]

thank you for the explanation.

[@amr19932012]

Simple and informative, Thank you !

[@suridchakma4403]

Your style of describing is super 🔥

[@steelo2214]

yah that’s it. subscribed!

[@Undrios]

thank you!

[@montecristo7963]

Thank you that was really helpful

[@abstractdavis]

Thanks a lot, very clear explanation

[@fondungallahkondem2923]

thank you so much

[@graceji4082]

awesome tutorial!

[@Free--Soul]

great job

[@neozhang8700]

excellent explanation~~

[@Dorff_Meister]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@ted2091]

explained it perfectly, thank you

[@jaredsimon3731]

Thank you sir. This was great.

[@LongNguyen-op7ls]

Very good tutorial man ! These flex things was annoying me for hours

[@uimonk]

you are awesome..

[@codeme8016]

Good tutorial. You can also enable the browser's responsive "toggle device toolbar" tool e.g. Chrome to resize the frame instead of resizing your entire browser window.

[@blueapple9135]

Thanks for well explained.

[@codesiddhi]

👍well explained, thanks :)

[@dijanad6021]

good explanation!

[@barrbudo]

What's the extension you are using for informing the screen dimensions? The ones I've found so far do not work if I'm working with a local file :(

[@toddjudd9552]

+Barbudo view port dimensions available in the chrome store here: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/viewport-dimensions/kchdfagjljmhgapoonapmfngpadcjkhk/related?hl=en-US

[@barrbudo]

Todd Judd Thanks :)

[@pilloIMNG]

Great explanation! I now understand more about these properties, thank you! I gotta note that the intro is very loud and your voice is very low, but this video is 7 y o so might have changed.

[@majdalkwaja9792]

Thanks bro

[@nasko717]

Thanks!

[@jasserlabiadh7012]

bro thaaank youuuuuuuuuuuuu ily

[@nailalzuhairi2690]

u r brilliant

[@austinethridge2771]

Thank you sir! I understand it now

[@ek4m81]

that's good

[@henriquemagno9326]

thanks

[@dvidalv]

excelent!

[@cashpay50]

subscibed!

[@l3tk1ll]

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[@juniorusca602]

I love this explication

[@williamjamesrapp7356]

Looks good You do a fair job of teaching this BUT what happens when I type in What you type in and IT STILL DOES NOTHING ?

[@shotbylowie]

check if you linked your css correctly in your

[@Johann.Liebert]

thanks :D

[@friend1310]

Hi Wes, can you please use fractions to express how much an element is giving away of its width when using flex-shrink? I think I don’t get it. You use flex-basis:400px for both .box1 and .box2. So, when the container is 800px wide, each box is 400px wide. Then you use flex-grow:10 for .box1 and flex-grow:1 for .box2. So, when the container gets wider than 800px the extra room will get split between the elements using the ratio we set for flex-grow. My understanding is that .box1 gets 10/11 of free space and .box2 gets 1/11. So yes, .box1 gets 10x more extra space than .box2. But how does this work with flex-shrink? We used the same values for flex-shrink as for flex-grow, but obviously .box1 is not giving away 10/11 of its width when the container gets below 800px. Thanks!

[@friend1310]

I think I got it, but I am not sure if I'm right. I think that if the container gets for example 700px wide the .box1 and 2 miss 100px, they just can't be 400px each any more. So, they have to split the 100px using the ratio above, meaning .box1 will be narrower by 100*10/11~90.91px and .box2 will be narrower by 100*1/11~9.09. The new width of .box1 will be 400-90.91=309.09px and the width of .box2 will be 400-9.09=390.91px. Now .box1 and .box2 (309.09+390.91=700) exactly fit 700px wide container. Can somebody confirm my theory? :D

[@friend1310]

Yes, that's how it works. I just checked it using web inspector.

[@HarpreetSingh-vf6lu]

Hey, can you explain the math behind this please of how flex-grow works, hard to find online.

[@chome4]

How do you apply 'wrapping' to force the second box onto the second row?

[@ycombinator765]

Wes is the Boss

[@EquinoXReZ]

Fire

[@WILLGYS]

Man is for box, not the container! that's why it wasn't doing anything. Thanks Wes

[@haley8004]

Someone know what this means? I have no idea. "kind of look at your layout and intelligently figure out how big these other ones should be"

[@NanarStudios]

Helpful, but you have to watch in 1.5x speed for it to almost feel like a normal speaking speed

[@MikeMike-ms1ns]

why is there bullshit like if you are in the 10th level div you can't set it to use the remaining space but need to put display flex on every level of div above it? Shouldn't immediate div be enough?

[@Bruce-Baum]

way better explanation than codecademy

[@igu642]

❤❤

[@BohemianOnTheRoad]

omg its 8 year ago

[@tabniletley2643]

i actually really like the intro. it's so 90's!

[@afaque.]

what if he started again making these intros in his new videos...that will be

[@armandoperez9528]

Oh my god, this intro is soooo annoying. It is still a great tutorial.

[@SuperKojota]

Stupid whisper.

[@leakyabstraction]

Pretty sure all the downvotes are the result of that intro. I was so annoyed... Started to wonder if there is something seriously wrong with me to find it that annoying; but then I saw your comment.

[@spencerwasden5155]

@@SuperKojota did you mean "whistle"? If so I agree--it actually hurt my ears. But great tutorial!! Thanks @Wes Bos

[@amirhossein7984]

Just play at 1.25x speed.

[@Rivederchee]

this left earrape

[@napolunatico]

I think this is not completele well explained. Why? Because when you give flex-grow or flex-shrink to an element you do not make 'x' times bigger than the other one, you are just using 'THE AVAILABLE SPACE', and dividing it in many spaces as you have given to the summary of all the elements, and from this point the browser gives the size to every element according with the number of flex-grow o shrink that you gave to it every single element. (My english is not good enought sorry). Bless!

[@Oguztogrul]

You explain very bad. Sorry.