A flexbox trick to improve text wrapping
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Why flex-grow or flex: 1 don't work
01:30 - flex-wrap doesn't solve the issue either
02:00 - min-width to the rescue
04:05 - more about icodethis
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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!
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?
@@dashx2 I wish I could link replies here, but @jenstornell answered this in a reply on this video
Would setting flex-basis:calc(50% - var(--gap)); fix the small screen being different widths problem without affecting anything else?
Yes I did catch that mistake! But I guess we can let it slide as you showed us such amazing trick. 👌
@@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.
Yeah correct 💯 💯💯 this guy knows everything in CSS
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.
@@1lllllllll1Ease of maintenance is why
@@1lllllllll1well I challenge you to write a frontend framework from scratch then, let's see if it makes sense to use it or not
Bruv 😂
Had the same problem, literally never thought of using fit-content on min/max width.
Same
Yeah, I just rolled with no text break haha
And now a UX tip: don't add too many inferrable words on your buttons. "Add to" is common to both buttons, and doesn't hint the user of any different behavior, so you can either move that to an outer label, or completely skip that text, as the user can infer that "cart" and "wishlist" buttons on the item mean "add to [...]". That makes your buttons shorter, and easier to find and read (reading left-to-right, you have to read "Add to" before reading the "cart" or "wishlist" that you're more interested in).
that's nonsense sorry. consider the ACA, consider the context. you can't ask users to successfully infer anything. what if i already have this in the cart? does "cart" just show me the cart?
UX people like you are what makes the web horrible. please learn your craft before you spew nonsensical advice in comments. 👎👎👎👎👎👎
The "min-width: fit-content;" declaration helped me out on a project, really cool tip when working with the flex layout! Thanks! 🙌🏼
Neat! You can also achieve the same results by adding "white-space: nowrap" to the buttons as well.
I think this might even kept the widths the same, I didn't test it
@@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.
This is what I usually do when I encounter this issue, just text wrapping.
@@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.
@@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.
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!
You just saved developers so much time with your solution to this common issue!
That's the stuff! A simple, elegant solution to a common problem. Love it!
I have had this issue for so long and never knew how to fix them.
*Thank you so much, Kevin!*
The best css channel on UA-cam and it’s not even close. Been watching for years Thank you!!!
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!
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.
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.
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!
I love that this solution does not need media queries! Great video as always
Your timing is insane i was literally just struggling with this on a landing page yesterday. The Goat
I used this exact trick on this exact iCodeThis challenge! Love it!
Glad to see you in the comments section also! 🤩
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!
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
This came in big time! I'm currently working on something similar! Thanks Kevin!
New lesson for today! Thanks Kevin! 🤩
That's great. Very succinct without skipping the details
thanks kevin i faced the same issue ,text wrap not satisfied me also . Awsome solution😍
It's a nice way to solve it. I've been using this trick for a while now, and it works on most cases!
this is so beautiful, thank you Kevin!!!
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 👏
Brilliant! Loved the solution. Going to try this!
Love these videos, tackling the real issues!
Great sir! I had this issue some days ago and I just remove the space itself by adding - and got it solved
Loved the breakdown. Thank you for the explanation.
Amazing! Thank you so much for this tip!
Simply awesome trick, you are the best
never thought about this could be a workaround. great solution!
The amount times I encountered this problem. Thanks!
Thanks. This is really cool!
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 👍
Amazing out the box tutorial ❤❤
This is beyond cool. Thanks a lot!
I knew this one!
Also make sure to add text ellipsis in case text is little longer than available width.
Thanks for the reminder! Keep forgetting this exists but we kept relying on flex-direction in media queries.
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"
Your saving my life there. Thank you
Beautiful!
Crazy I was literally dealing with this issue the same day you posted this video
Thanks Kevin. Great Tip
Had no idea about min-width: fit-content. Love it!
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.
That's genius! Thanks for this
Whooo 🎉 thank you for sharing ❤
Oooo fit-content. This is perfect. Run into this issue all the time ❤
Great video! great tip as well!
woaow super useful, thank you
Thank you!
Great!!! Good explanation.
this is great solution, thx for sharing
I love these short videos
this was super cool!
Thank you very much! This one should be taught in all CSS classes >:o
great stuff!
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
You know, i never thought of using fit-content this way. Thanks!
El mejor trucazo de CSS, gracias
Awesome! Thanks for doing our life easier :)))
Very handy!
Pretty cool! I've been using fit-content a lot lately for height specially.
0:46 Thanks sooo much for explaining. I finally understand XD
Omg super thank you 😭
Useful fix found thanks 🎉
Very precious video
Thanks Kevin
Bro! Instant subscribed.
Wow i guess im good at css , i figured this out when i heard your problem 😅
Very cool!
This can spare a lot of headaches.
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.
Very helpful
Thank you
Wow I learned a new thing Kevin
Aaaahhhggghhhh!!! I wish I knew this 2 months ago!
I didn't knew you could use fit-content in a width propperty, that's some real usefull thing
So smart!
Nice trick! I use white space but I will try this
i think you save a lot of us a lot but we just don't find your videos sooner 😂 😂
In Tailwind it's "min-w-fit". Super handy!
Nice!
I’m so excited for this. Had the exact same issue on this exact icodethis challenge !
Miss!! 🫡
@@FlorinPop Pop!!!! Our guy!
thanks))
great tip
It's kinda funny how exciting did I find this haha
What are the chances! I ran across this problem last week, this will solve it! Thanks
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
Incredible 😛😛
Thought that I'd use experimental @ container to do such dynamic effect, didn't knew that flexbox can do so!
Awesome tip! A very rare “ah hah!” moment from me. 😅
K, your videos are greater on time!
NICE!!!!!!!
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
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?