Flexbox alignment with images and text inside same container

Question

I am making a flexbox Employee ID card layout. The employee's picture will go to the left and the employee's info (name, employee-id, department, etc) will go to the right of the image in a list format top-to-bottom.

I need to do this using flexbox.

Here is a link to my JSFiddle with what I have done so far:

http://jsfiddle.net/Hopped_Up_Designs/3teLbqqf

 .flex-container { display: -webkit-flex; display: flex; -webkit-flex-direction: row; flex-direction: row; -webkit-align-items: center; align-items: center; flex-wrap: wrap; min-width: 320px; max-width: 1220px; } .flex-item { height: 120px; width: 300px; background-color: #e46119; border: 1px solid #626262; margin: 3px; padding: 10px 0 0 10px; } span { padding-left: 5px; } 

 <div class="flex-container"> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> <div class="flex-item"><img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"> <span>Text fields will go here</span> </div> </div> 

Any and all help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Jason

Answer 1

The most unobtrusive approach which I found was to add this:

.flex-item {
    display:flex;
    align-items: center;
}
.flex-item img{
    flex-grow:0;
    flex-shrink:0;
}

If you add multiple <span> immediately after the img, they'll continue displaying in row fashion (like a float). This may not be the what you want, though. One option could be to set each item to a fixed width - but that breaks the spirit of flexbox.

But if you modify your text wrapper to contain a single <div> , I think you'll be fine. The <div> will display as a block level element until you choose otherwise.

<div class="flex-item">
  <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100">
  <div>
    <ul>
      <li>Text fields will go here</li>
      <li>and here</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
 </div>

Here's a fork of your fiddle where I did this. http://jsfiddle.net/Paceaux/7fcqkb50/1/

Answer 2

Just wrap your info in a container set to display: inline-block :

HTML

<div class="flex-item">
    <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100"/>
    <div class="info-container">
       <p>Field 1</p>
       <p>Field 2</p>
       <p>Field 3</p>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.info-container{
   display: inline-block;
   vertical-align: top;
   padding: 0 0 0 5px;
   -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
   -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
   box-sizing: border-box;
}

.info-container p{
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0 0 10px;
}

FIDDLE