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The flex-shrink property is a sub-property of the Flexible Box Layout module.
It specifies the “flex shrink factor” which determines how much the flex item will shrink relative to the rest of the flex items in the flex container when there isn’t enough space on the row.
.element {
flex-shrink: 2;
}When omitted, it is set to 1 and the flex shrink factor is multiplied by the flex basis when distributing negative space.
Syntax
flex-shrink: <number>Demo
To see the full potential of this demo, you would have to be able to resize its width, so please have a look at it on CodePen directly.
In this demo:
- The first item has
flex: 1 1 20em(shorthand forflex-grow: 1,flex-shrink: 1,flex-basis: 20em) - The second item has
flex: 2 2 20em(shorthand forflex-grow: 2,flex-shrink: 2,flex-basis: 20em)
Both flex items want to be 20em wide. Because of the flex-grow (first parameter), if the flex container is larger than 40em, the 2nd child will take twice as much leftover space as the first child. But if the parent element is less than 40em wide, then the 2nd child will have twice as much shaved off of it as the 1st child, making it look smaller (because of the 2nd parameter, flex-shrink).
Browser support
For more informations about how to mix syntaxes in order to get the best browser support, please refer to “Using Flexbox” or this article from DevOpera.
More information
- flex-shrink in the spec
- flex-shrink at MDN
- Advanced cross-browser flexbox
- A guide to Flexbox
- Using Flexbox
- Old Flexbox and new Flexbox
I’ve read the spc. But I don’t understand it without the demos, so I go to here. However, I don’t know why the demo has this effect. How does it copute? :(
This is not working on Ipad Safari v8.1.3. although it says its supposed to be compatible.
This isn’t working for Ipad Safari v8.1.3 although it is supposed to be compatible.
Not working with Safari 5.1.7