Quick note: I mispoke when I said flex: 1; will make it a flex-shrink: 0. It makes it flex-grow: 1; flex-shrink: 1; and flex-basis: 0; You'd almost never notice the difference as long as the flex-basis is 0, but still, I did make a mistake there, sorry about that!

@dashx2

Ай бұрын

I usually use white-space: nowrap; in such scenarios. Is there any difference in this scenario between min-width: fit-content or white-space: nowrap?

@eioluseyi

Ай бұрын

@@dashx2 I wish I could link replies here, but @jenstornell answered this in a reply on this video

@detore

Ай бұрын

Would setting flex-basis:calc(50% - var(--gap)); fix the small screen being different widths problem without affecting anything else?

@ismailcreatvt

29 күн бұрын

Yes I did catch that mistake! But I guess we can let it slide as you showed us such amazing trick. 👌

@dashx2

29 күн бұрын

@@eioluseyi I read his comment. Usually these situtations happen for buttons and most of the time buttons dont have long text taking up more than 100px width so white-space-nowrap rarely is problematic on mobile.

I’ve been writing CSS for like 20 years and I feel like I know nothing.

@whyisthiscodenotworking

20 күн бұрын

Yeah correct 💯 💯💯 this guy knows everything in CSS

@1lllllllll1

13 күн бұрын

that's because you've been writing CSS since the dawn of time. I'm constantly aghast at the improvements of the cascade behavior and element addressing. Why people still use SCSS is becoming increasingly questionable. If you're a skilled front end dev, there really shouldn't need to be a need for any of the frameworks any longer. same for javascript and HTML.

@zayne-sarutobi

13 күн бұрын

​@@1lllllllll1Ease of maintenance is why

@kadir572

12 күн бұрын

​@@1lllllllll1well I challenge you to write a frontend framework from scratch then, let's see if it makes sense to use it or not

@MRJMXHD

12 күн бұрын

Bruv 😂

Had the same problem, literally never thought of using fit-content on min/max width.

@LePhenixGD

Ай бұрын

Same

@peasantlord135

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I just rolled with no text break haha

This is brilliant! Coincidentally, I had to make a small change to an older website today. And I noticed they have a similar issue with two buttons, because the client's changed the text on the buttons. It's bothered me for years at this point. I'm applying this there right away!

The "min-width: fit-content;" declaration helped me out on a project, really cool tip when working with the flex layout! Thanks! 🙌🏼

You just saved developers so much time with your solution to this common issue!

Neat! You can also achieve the same results by adding "white-space: nowrap" to the buttons as well.

@KlethonioFerreira

28 күн бұрын

I think this might even kept the widths the same, I didn't test it

@Sagan1995

27 күн бұрын

@@KlethonioFerreira it unfortunately doesn't because the minimum width of one button is less than the other. Only giving the buttons a fixed minimum width will keep them equal in size.

@jaysonbautista95

22 күн бұрын

This is what I usually do when I encounter this issue, just text wrapping.

@Pixelarter

15 күн бұрын

@@Sagan1995 It's a bit overkill, but I think with a CSS grid instead of flexbox, it's possible to keep them the same size and make them properly wrap.

@Sagan1995

14 күн бұрын

@@Pixelarter I am imagining you can only achieve that in grid by providing a fixed minimum width, which can also be done in flexbox. So unless I'm wrong and there's another way to do it in grid, I am not seeing the advantage.

The best css channel on KZread and it’s not even close. Been watching for years Thank you!!!

I love that this solution does not need media queries! Great video as always

Once you're facing the solution, the reaction is something like "yes, obviously obvious" but I before never tried to put fit-content to a min-width. Great tip 👏

That's the stuff! A simple, elegant solution to a common problem. Love it!

New lesson for today! Thanks Kevin! 🤩

I fixed this with white-space: preline; but wasnt a fan how it ended in the end. This solution seems much better. Preline would just force the text not to break, but also had to add prettier ignore so it doesnt break the line. Takes a bit more setup. Thanks a lot Kevin for this solution, much appreciated :D

I used this exact trick on this exact iCodeThis challenge! Love it!

@FlorinPop

Ай бұрын

Glad to see you in the comments section also! 🤩

I have had this issue for so long and never knew how to fix them. *Thank you so much, Kevin!*

I love this format, short gem, one subject, great for archiving for reminding yourself later. Btw. thank you VERY MUCH for being consistent I don't even remember for how long and presenting code and examples in clear way (i.e. big fonts, big pictures, etc) so your viewer don't have to buy new 40" monitor plus pair of new eyes. Thank you!

I appreciate you spelling out the whole thought process. I feel like it’ll really help improve my intuition for solving css issues in general.

This is clever. I like it! I feel like every video I watch of yours, Kevin, I learn about new CSS variables that I never knew existed or never thought to use the way you're using. Well done and thank you for sharing!

Your timing is insane i was literally just struggling with this on a landing page yesterday. The Goat

Bloody hell that's a nice solution. I was literally working on the same problem last night. But this blows my solution out of the water. Gonna use this right away. Thanks.

I honestly love short contents like these. I had this same issue and your solution was straightforward! I don't have time to watch a 30 minute or 12 hour video and then try to find which chapter and minute is the content I'm looking for. Thanks!

That's great. Very succinct without skipping the details

Nice! How glad am I this popped up as a recommended video right now. This solved a similar problem I was having and couldn't quite solve properly. This did exactly what I wanted. Thanks!

This came in big time! I'm currently working on something similar! Thanks Kevin!

I knew this one! Also make sure to add text ellipsis in case text is little longer than available width.

Great sir! I had this issue some days ago and I just remove the space itself by adding -  and got it solved

It's a nice way to solve it. I've been using this trick for a while now, and it works on most cases!

thanks kevin i faced the same issue ,text wrap not satisfied me also . Awsome solution😍

Amazing! Thank you so much for this tip!

this is so beautiful, thank you Kevin!!!

Brilliant! Loved the solution. Going to try this!

Love these videos, tackling the real issues!

Loved the breakdown. Thank you for the explanation.

never thought about this could be a workaround. great solution!

Had no idea about min-width: fit-content. Love it!

Thank you very much! This one should be taught in all CSS classes >:o

The amount times I encountered this problem. Thanks!

Simply awesome trick, you are the best

Thanks for the reminder! Keep forgetting this exists but we kept relying on flex-direction in media queries.

Amazing out the box tutorial ❤❤

Thanks. This is really cool!

I needed to do that for a two column layout, and keep content centered, I also found it worked using flex and min-with as fit-content

to fix the "downside" we could make it so that the texts take the same size by adding a fixed margin. really cool as always

Your saving my life there. Thank you

This is beyond cool. Thanks a lot!

That's genius! Thanks for this

Nice! Definitely better than a fixed min-width which is what I would normally do to solve this, but that can just get messy, this is cool 👍

0:46 Thanks sooo much for explaining. I finally understand XD

Crazy I was literally dealing with this issue the same day you posted this video

Oooo fit-content. This is perfect. Run into this issue all the time ❤

Oooooh very helpful! I was fiddling around with the youtube CSS the other day because I really hate how it squashes the channel name of there's a join button on the page, had no idea you can tell it like "wrapping text is a last resort, go through all the other rearrangement options first"

Thanks Kevin. Great Tip

Thank you!

Beautiful!

Awesome! Thanks for doing our life easier :)))

I love these short videos

I've done this before, it works well exactly for this sort of case! I think I ended up using it fairly recently in a flexy table where I wanted some columns such as email address column to basically take up more space if needed to prevent the text wrapping but otherwise should try and make the columns even width or at least take up space based on their content, I think I may have also used a min-width: max-content; at one point.

this was super cool!

Great video! great tip as well!

this is great solution, thx for sharing

woaow super useful, thank you

Whooo 🎉 thank you for sharing ❤

Great!!! Good explanation.

Bro! Instant subscribed.

This can spare a lot of headaches.

great stuff!

Interesting to see the raw css stuff with flexbox. I started learning HTML 26 years ago, CSS probably been about 20 years and then I never kept up to date or used the newer features like flex and grid etc - by the time I started using those I had switched to tailwind, so I'm used to seeing this type of thing with just a few classes. I must admit if I had to use regular css for flex I wouldn't know what I'm doing. But that fit-content with the width is interesting and will keep it in mind for when it comes in handy one day.

Thanks Kevin

Very precious video

i think you save a lot of us a lot but we just don't find your videos sooner 😂 😂

Pretty cool! I've been using fit-content a lot lately for height specially.

Omg super thank you 😭

In Tailwind it's "min-w-fit". Super handy!

Very handy!

Wow i guess im good at css , i figured this out when i heard your problem 😅

Thank you

I didn't knew you could use fit-content in a width propperty, that's some real usefull thing

Useful fix found thanks 🎉

Aaaahhhggghhhh!!! I wish I knew this 2 months ago!

Father of css

I’m so excited for this. Had the exact same issue on this exact icodethis challenge !

@FlorinPop

Ай бұрын

Miss!! 🫡

@clevermissfox

Ай бұрын

@@FlorinPop Pop!!!! Our guy!

Thought that I'd use experimental @ container to do such dynamic effect, didn't knew that flexbox can do so!

Wow I learned a new thing Kevin

Nice trick! I use white space but I will try this

Very helpful

This is great! I was scratching my head how to do it nicely. One issue I found when there are multiple button. The gap breaks it and keeps space on the right in the container. How do you deal with that?

Cool sharing! Not going to try out now but jus wondering if this works for both chrome and Firefox? Edge case fixes like this sometimes don't work on either one

Very cool!

fit-content.. what a lovely solution to min-width!

K, your videos are greater on time!

What are the chances! I ran across this problem last week, this will solve it! Thanks

It's kinda funny how exciting did I find this haha

Awesome tip! A very rare “ah hah!” moment from me. 😅

If you have 3 items next to each other, how can you make them all move under each other right when 1 of them hit that annoying break line

@yourlocalhuman3526

Ай бұрын

media query that changes the organisation of the buttons only to flex-direction column at a certain container width? I assume it would need to be placed after the style that is enabling the linebreak(wrap)

Are there a transparent characters that can be used to make the length of character lines the same or even them out in some approximate way so that when the boxes themselves are resized due to the length of the text within them the transparent characters will equalise everything out? Back in the old tape setting days when things were printed on paper there were even minor adjustments made between the distances of each letter in a word and between words and a sentence that would be used to justify and even out the amount of space for every container in printing.

So smart!

So let me just say " I LOVE YOUR INTELIGENCE"

thanks))

Very good, it works, But media is suddenly an large monitor 8K, now need to increase the font too, lol

great tip