CSS - box-flex

See Flexbox for more information on what you should be using instead of this property.

Example

 

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>-moz-box-flex example</title>
    <style>
      div.example {
        display: -moz-box;
        display: -webkit-box;
        border: 1px solid black;
        width: 100%;                
      }
      div.example > p:nth-child(1) {
        -moz-box-flex: 1;       /* Mozilla */
        -webkit-box-flex: 1;    /* WebKit */
        border: 1px solid black;
      }
      div.example > p:nth-child(2) {
        -moz-box-flex: 0;       /* Mozilla */
        -webkit-box-flex: 0;    /* WebKit */
        border: 1px solid black;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="example">
      <p>I will expand to fill extra space</p>
      <p>I will not expand</p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Syntax  

CSS
/* <number> values */
-moz-box-flex: 0;
-moz-box-flex: 2;
-moz-box-flex: 3.5;
-webkit-box-flex: 0;
-webkit-box-flex: 2;
-webkit-box-flex: 3.5;

/* Global values */
-moz-box-flex: inherit;
-moz-box-flex: initial;
-moz-box-flex: unset;
-webkit-box-flex: inherit;
-webkit-box-flex: initial;
-webkit-box-flex: unset;

Values

<number>
If the value is 0, the box does not grow. If it is greater than 0, the box grows to fill a proportion of the available space.

Formal syntax

CSS
<a href="css/number" title=""><number></a>

Description  

The -moz-box-flex and -webkit-box-flex CSS properties specify how a -moz-box or -webkit-box grows to fill the box that contains it, in the direction of the containing box's layout. See Flexbox for more about the properties of flexbox elements.

Initial value0
Applies toelements that are direct children of an element with a CSS display value of -moz-box or -moz-inline-box or -webkit-box or -webkit-inline-box
Inheritedno
Mediavisual
Computed valueas specified
Animatableno
Canonical orderthe unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

Browser Compatibility  

Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support (Yes)-webkit (Yes)-mox[1] No support (Yes)-webkit 1.1-khtml
3.0-webkit
Feature Android Chrome for Android Firefox Mobile (Gecko) IE Mobile Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support ? ? ? No support ? 1.0-webkit

[1] In addition to the -moz prefixed support, Gecko 48.0 (Firefox 48.0 / Thunderbird 48.0 / SeaMonkey 2.45) added support for a -webkit prefixed version of the property for web compatibility reasons behind the preference layout.css.prefixes.webkit, defaulting to false. Since Gecko 49.0 (Firefox 49.0 / Thunderbird 49.0 / SeaMonkey 2.46) the preference defaults to true.

Notes  

The containing box allocates the available extra space in proportion to the flex value of each of the content elements.

Content elements that have zero flex do not grow.

If only one content element has nonzero flex, then it grows to fill the available space.

Content elements that have the same flex grow by the same absolute amounts.

If the flex value is set using the element's flex attribute, then the style is ignored.

To make XUL elements in a containing box the same size, set the containing box's equalsize attribute to the value always. This attribute does not have a corresponding CSS property.

A trick to make all content elements in a containing box the same size, is to give them all a fixed size (e.g. height: 0), and the same box-flex value greater than zero (e.g. -moz-box-flex: 1).

See Also  

box-orient, box-pack, box-direction, flex

Specifications  

This property is a non-standard extension. There was an old draft of the CSS3 Flexbox specification that defined a box-flex property, but that draft has since been superseded.

License

© 2016 Mozilla Contributors
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/web/css/box-flex

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