Use display:flex to fill the remaining vertical space using CSS

Question

In a 3 row layout: The top row should be sized according to its content The bottom row should have a fixed height in pixels The middle row should expand to fill the container The problem is that as the main content expands it squeezes Header and footer lines: section{display:flex;flex-flow:column;align-items:stretch;height:300px;}header{flex:01auto;background:tomato;}div{flex:11auto

P粉555696738 · Answer

The following example includes scrolling behavior when the content of an expanded center component exceeds its bounds. Additionally, the center component takes up 100% of the remaining space in the viewport.

jsfiddle here

html, body, .r_flex_container{
    height: 100%;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    background: red;
    margin: 0;
}
.r_flex_container {
    display:flex;
    flex-flow: column nowrap;
    background-color:blue;
}

.r_flex_fixed_child {
    flex:none;
    background-color:black;
    color:white;

}
.r_flex_expand_child {
    flex:auto;
    background-color:yellow;
    overflow-y:scroll;
}

HTML examples that can be used to demonstrate this behavior

This is the fixed 'header' child of the flex container

this child container expands to use all of the space given to it - but could be shared with other expanding childs in which case they would get equal space after the fixed container space is allocated.
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this is the fixed footer child of the flex container
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P粉018548441 · Answer

Simple: DEMO

section {
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: column;
  height: 300px;
}

header {
  background: tomato;
  /* no flex rules, it will grow */
}

div {
  flex: 1;  /* 1 and it will fill whole space left if no flex value are set to other children*/
  background: gold;
  overflow: auto;
}

footer {
  background: lightgreen;
  min-height: 60px;  /* min-height has its purpose :) , unless you meant height*/
}


  
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