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Margin collapsing in flexbox
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2 element inside a container with display:block margins collapse, but with display:flex is not working !
example
.wrapper {
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.container {
display: flex;
// display: block;
flex-flow: column nowrap;
background-color: green;
}
h1 {
background-color: #777;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}
p {
background-color: #ccc;
margin-top: 15px;
}
Margins does not collapse when one use display: flex
. If you want to know more about collapse margins in general, here is a couple of articles to start with:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Box_Model/Mastering_margin_collapsing
- https://css-tricks.com/what-you-should-know-about-collapsing-margins/
As a workaround, to make it behave similar to display: block
, you could do something like this, where you add a flex
class to container
's that has display: flex
, to target only h1
and p
.
And if you can't do that manually, a script could do that work for you.
.wrapper {
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.container {
display: flex;
/* display: block; */
flex-flow: column nowrap;
background-color: green;
}
h1 {
background-color: #777;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}
p {
background-color: #ccc;
margin-top: 15px;
}
/* custom classes to remove margin */
.container.flex h1:first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}
.container.flex p:last-child {
margin: 0;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="container flex">
<h1>header h1</h1>
<p>plain text</p>
</div>
</div>