flex-grow

Needed to sanity check my understanding of flex-grow

by larsolesimonsen

HTML

<div class="parent">
  <div class="child1">
    child 1
  </div>
  <div class="child2">
    child 2
  </div>
  <div class="child3">
    child 3
  </div>
</div>

CSS

.parent {
  background-color: magenta;
  height: 500px;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

.parent * {
  //height: 50px;
  display: flex;
  flex-grow: 1;
}

.child1 {
  background-color: red;
  flex-grow: 2;
}

.child2 {
  background-color: blue;
}

.child3 {
  background-color: green;
}