Flexbox & Grid

Utilities for controlling how flex items both grow and shrink.

Use flex-initial to allow a flex item to shrink but not grow, taking into account its initial size:

Use flex-1 to allow a flex item to grow and shrink as needed, ignoring its initial size:

Use flex-auto to allow a flex item to grow and shrink, taking into account its initial size:

Use flex-none to prevent a flex item from growing or shrinking:

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:flex-1 to only apply the flex-1 utility on hover.

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:flex-1 to apply the flex-1 utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

By default, Tailwind provides four flex utilities. You can customize these values by editing theme.flex or theme.extend.flex in your tailwind.config.js file.

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

If you need to use a one-off flex value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.

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