CSS Properties: How to align self auto element inherits its parent container's align-items property, or "stretch" if it has no parent container??

Last update on February 15 2024 10:04:30 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"><!-- Declare character encoding -->
<title>How to align self auto element inherits its parent container's align-items property, or "stretch" if it has no parent container</title><!-- Set the title of the HTML document -->
<style>/* CSS style Starts*/
#xyz {
width: 200px; /* Set width of the container */
height: 250px; /* Set height of the container */
border: 1px solid black; /* Set border of the container */
display: -webkit-flex; /* Safari */ /* Use flexbox layout for Safari */
-webkit-align-items: auto; /* Safari 7.0+ */ /* Set alignment of items to "auto" for Safari */
display: flex; /* Use flexbox layout for other browsers */
align-items: auto; /* Set alignment of items to "auto" for other browsers */
 }
#xyz div {
-webkit-flex: 1; /* Safari 6.1+ */ /* Allow the divs to grow and shrink to fill the available space horizontally for Safari */
flex: 1; /* Allow the divs to grow and shrink to fill the available space horizontally for other browsers */
 }
div#alignselfautoDiv {
align-self:center; /* Align this specific item vertically to the center */
)
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="xyz">
<div style="background-color:#99FF99;">Item1</div><!-- First div item -->
<div style="background-color:#33CCFF;" id="alignselfautoDiv">Item2 with more content.</div><!-- Second div item with alignment specified -->
<div style="background-color:#FF99FF;">Item3</div><!-- Third div item -->
</div>
</body>
</html>

Explanation:

The HTML document contains a flexible container (div#xyz) with three child div items.
The align-items property of the container and the child div items is set to "auto", which allows the items to inherit the alignment from their parent container.
One of the child div items (div#alignselfautoDiv) has its alignment set to center using CSS.
Since the parent container's align-items property is set to "auto", the child div items inherit this property, resulting in them being aligned according to their parent's alignment property.

Live Demo:

See the Pen align-self-auto-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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