CSS quicky: fixing flexbox width with pre tags
I am pretty happy with my minimal blog layout - in the code it looks something like:
<div id="content-container">
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="sidebar"></div>
</div>with the css code
#content-container {
display: flex;
}
#content {
flex: 1;
}
#sidebar {
max-width: 210px;
}nothing too exciting…
While i’m writing several drafts, i had looong docker commands in pre tags, and it broke the layout - i don’t know why, but the pre tags didn’t want to break the lines. Everything was pushed out of all containers, even out of the max-width of 960 pixels on the body. Nothing seems to help, overflow, fixed width, everything was ignored.
???
to the resuce
After a lot of google and stackoverflow, i found this article:
https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/Feb/15/Flexbox-Containers-PRE-tags-and-managing-Overflow
The solution: just add min-width: 0; to the container with flex: 1
???
#content {
flex: 1;
min-width: 0;
}I prepared a codepen - uncomment the allmighty min-width to see the magic happen!
Not sure if this was intended by the specification?
bonus CSS: one line image gallery
#gallery {
column-count: 4;
}i think column-count is not the newest addition, but it is incredibly useful when working with multiple colums, and for me it was a new discovery :)