Align an element to bottom with flexbox

Question

I have a div with some children:

<div class="content">
  <h1>heading 1</h1>
  <h2>heading 2</h2>
  <p>Some more or less text</p>
  <a href="/" class="button">Click me</a>
</div>

and I want the following layout:

 -------------------
|heading 1          |
|heading 2          | 
|paragraph text     |
|can have many      |
|rows               |
|                   |
|                   |
|                   | 
|link-button        |
 -------------------

Regardless how much text is in the p I want to stick the .button always at the bottom without taking it out of the flow. I've heard this can be achievable with Flexbox but I can't get it to work.

Answer 1

You can use auto margins

Prior to alignment via justify-content and align-self, any positive free space is distributed to auto margins in that dimension.

So you can use one of these (or both):

p { margin-bottom: auto; } /* Push following elements to the bottom */
a { margin-top: auto; } /* Push it and following elements to the bottom */

.content {
  height: 200px;
  border: 1px solid;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}
h1, h2 {
  margin: 0;
}
a {
  margin-top: auto;
}

<div class="content">
  <h1>heading 1</h1>
  <h2>heading 2</h2>
  <p>Some text more or less</p>
  <a href="/" class="button">Click me</a>
</div>

Alternatively, you can make the element before the a grow to fill the available space:

p { flex-grow: 1; } /* Grow to fill available space */

.content {
  height: 200px;
  border: 1px solid;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}
h1, h2 {
  margin: 0;
}
p {
  flex-grow: 1;
}

<div class="content">
  <h1>heading 1</h1>
  <h2>heading 2</h2>
  <p>Some text more or less</p>
  <a href="/" class="button">Click me</a>
</div>

Answer 2

You can use display: flex to position an element to the bottom, but I do not think you want to use flex in this case, as it will affect all of your elements.

To position an element to the bottom using flex try this:

.container {
  display: flex;
}

.button {
  align-self: flex-end;
}

Your best bet is to set position: absolute to the button and set it to bottom: 0, or you can place the button outside the container and use negative transform: translateY(-100%) to bring it in the container like this:

.content {
    height: 400px;
    background: #000;
    color: #fff;
}
.button {
    transform: translateY(-100%);
    display: inline-block;
}

Check this JSFiddle

Answer 3

The solution with align-self: flex-end; didn't work for me but this one did in case you want to use flex:

CSS

.content{
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  flex-direction: column;
}

HTML

<div class="content">
  <div>
    <h1>heading 1</h1>
    <h2>heading 2</h2>
    <p>Some more or less text</p>
  </div>

  <div>
    <a href="/" class="button">Click me</a>
  </div>
</div>

Results in:

 -------------------
|heading 1          |
|heading 2          | 
|paragraph text     |
|can have many      |
|rows               |
|                   |
|                   |
|                   | 
|link-button        |
 -------------------

Answer 4

Try This

.content {
      display: flex;
      flex-direction: column;
      height: 250px;
      width: 200px;
      border: solid;
      word-wrap: break-word;
    }

   .content h1 , .content h2 {
     margin-bottom: 0px;
    }

   .content p {
     flex: 1;
    }

   <div class="content">
  <h1>heading 1</h1>
  <h2>heading 2</h2>
  <p>Some more or less text</p>
  <a href="/" class="button">Click me</a>
</div>

Answer 5

To your use case, just this will do the job

.content {  
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}
p {
  flex-grow: 1;
}

You can do something like this if you want to stick button to the bottom of the screen

.content{
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column; 
}
.content a{
  position: fixed;
  bottom: 0;
}

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