Different flex containers side by side

Question

I'm trying to make it such that I have two half-width wrappers side by side. Currently the wrappers do take half the space but don't appear side to side. The display:flex seems to be taking the whole width and leaving the unused space on the side as margin.

 .wrapper { display: flex; flex-direction: column; width: 40%; border: 1px solid black; }

 <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div>

I also tried adding another div outside wrapper with width 50% but it didn't help. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Instead of display: flex , use display: inline-flex .

The first is a block-level element which, by default, takes the full width of the parent.

The second is an inline-level element, which can co-exist with other elements on the same line.

 .wrapper { display: inline-flex; flex-direction: column; width: 40%; border: 1px solid black; }

 <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div>

Alternatively, set the parent element to display: flex which, by default, forces the children to exist in the same row.

Add this to your code: body { display: flex } .

 .wrapper { display: flex; flex-direction: column; width: 40%; border: 1px solid black; } body { display: flex; }

 <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div>

Answer 2

I believe display: flex is similar to display: block if it's a top level element. The difference being; the children of the flex container will be able to utilize the flex behavior. What you need to do is something like this:

 body { margin: 0; }.parent { display: flex; height: 100vh; background: #eee; }.child { display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1; border: 1px dashed #ccc; }

 <div class='parent'> <div class='child column'>child 1</div> <div class='child column'>child 2</div> </div>

Answer 3

Wrap the wrappers with div and then display: flex .

 .main-wrapper { display: flex; }.wrapper { display: flex; flex-direction: column; width: 50%; border: 1px solid black; }

 <div class="main-wrapper"> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="title">Test Title</div> <div class="info"> <div class="column"> <b>1</b> <span>One</span> </div> <div class="column"> <b>2</b> <span>Two</span> </div> </div> </div> </div>