MDN Web Docs
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justify-content - CSS - MDN Web Docs
The CSS justify-content property defines how the browser distributes space between and around content items along the main axis of a flex container and the inline axis of grid and multicol containers.
W3Schools
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CSS justify-content property
The justify-content property aligns the flexible container's items when the items do not use all available space on the main-axis (horizontally).
html - Controlling the amount of space in justify-content: space-between - Stack Overflow
I was wondering how to justify how much space is allowed in justify-content: space-between for flexbox. Currently, my items are spaced but they have way too much space between them I want just a l... More on stackoverflow.com
why is my justify-content: space-between not working on flex items?
The flex value of space-evenly doesn't affect the width of flex content, it only relate to white space. So by default all elements start in a flexbox with a width of auto (ie. their default width assuming nothing is declared) then flex shrinks them to fit if they would overflow. Space-evenly simly means once everything is there, any unused space is shared evenly between each item. In your case you have a div to house the image, divs are block elements (meaning they default to 100% of their parent width). The other elements have their width defined by content, so everything else takes up a width it needs as determined by length of content. Then the div tries to be 100% but flex shrinks it to fit, therefore it takes all remaining space... a close to 100% as will fit. This leaves no white space for space evenly to affect. So in short, even though you are using flexbox you still need a width on the image div, or a flex value on it. More on reddit.com
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January 20, 2024In flexbox, whats the difference between setting justify-content to flex-start and start ?
ELI5 answer The flex-start/end keywords are part of the Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1 specification. The start/end keywords are part of the Box Alignment Module Level 3 specification. The Box Alignment 3 spec simplified the grammar, allowing for an easier and less annoying use of properties and keywords. Example: The gap property that used to be grid-gap, worked only with grid, obviously. Later they decided that they want the gap property for the flexbox as well, and instead adding the prefix like flex-gap, they simplified the things and went with gap, which is the shorthand for row-gap and column-gap Edit: like u/iwiik said, these keywords are not well supported yet for flexbox. More on reddit.com
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August 13, 2020justify-content: space-between not working when flex-direction is column?
It doesn't work the same because the row flex container gets the width of the viewport. The column one, with the blue boxes, will wrap your boxes, but not get bigger than that. If you want to space out your boxes there, assign a height to the container. By the way you can see that your container with red boxes doesn't have anymore space on small screens, such as a mobile. The same rule applies, since it doesn't have a specific width. More on reddit.com
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May 7, 2021Videos
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Tailwind CSS
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justify-content - Flexbox & Grid - Tailwind CSS
Use the justify-between utility to justify items along the container's main axis such that there is an equal amount of space between each item:
CSS Reference
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justify-content - CSS Reference
justify-content: space-between; The remaining space is distributed between the flexbox/grid items. 1. One · 2. Two · 3. Three · justify-content: space-around; The remaining space is distributed around the flexbox/grid items: this adds space ...
CSS-Tricks
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justify-content | CSS-Tricks
September 22, 2022 - The ‘space-between’ and ‘space-around’ properties would probably accurately show this in action but ‘flex-start’ and ‘flex-end’ properties have absolutely nothing to do with ‘justifying’. It really bugs me when clients ask for copy to be ‘left justified’ when they actually mean ‘left aligned’. ... I am pretty sure that as of today (August 4th, 2017), justify-content: space-evenly is not yet available.
Quackit
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CSS justify-content
The justify-content property aligns flex items along the main axis of the current line of the flex container. It defines how space is distributed between and around flex items.
SheCodes
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[CSS] - What is justify-content in CSS? - SheCodes Athena - | SheCodes
Learn about the CSS property justify-content and how it is used to align and distribute flex items in a flex container.
GeeksforGeeks
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CSS justify-content Property - GeeksforGeeks
July 11, 2025 - The justify-content property in CSS is used to align the flexible box container's items along the main axis of a flex container. This property manages space distribution between and around content items in a flex container.
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The justify-content property uses the available space on the line to position flex items.
With justify-content: space-between, all available space is placed between the first and last items, pushing both items to opposite edges of the container.
You wrote:
I was wondering how to justify how much space is allowed in
justify-content: space-betweenfor flexbox.
With space-between in row-direction, you would have to control the width of the flex container. So if you want there to be less space between flex items, then you would need to shorten the width of the container.
Or you could use justify-content: space-around.
However, these solutions are suboptimal.
The right way to go about this would be to use margins.
You wrote:
Currently, my items are spaced but they have way too much space between them I want just a little space between them so they can settle somewhere in the middle in a row.
Use justify-content: center then use margins to space them apart.
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My solution was :
- put dummy empty divs in between with a max-height specified
- change space-between to flex-start
- set the content blocks to nogrow
- set the dummy divs to grow
Then the spaces grow up to a max specified.
MDN
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justify-content - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
February 18, 2022 - The CSS justify-content property defines how the browser distributes space between and around content items along the main-axis of a flex container, and the inline axis of a grid container.
Bootstrap
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Flex · Bootstrap
Use justify-content utilities on flexbox containers to change the alignment of flex items on the main axis (the x-axis to start, y-axis if flex-direction: column). Choose from start (browser default), end, center, between, or around.
MDN Web Docs
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Aligning items in a flex container - CSS - MDN Web Docs
justify-content: Controls the alignment of all items on the main axis. align-items: Controls the alignment of all items on the cross axis. align-self: Controls the alignment of an individual flex item on the cross axis. align-content: Controls the space between flex lines on the cross axis.
W3cubDocs
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Justify-content - CSS - W3cubDocs
The CSS justify-content property defines how the browser distributes space between and around content items along the main-axis of a flex container, and the inline axis of a grid container. The interactive example below demonstrates some of the values using Grid Layout.
Reddit
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r/csshelp on Reddit: why is my justify-content: space-between not working on flex items?
January 20, 2024 -
>> https://codepen.io/coderr11/pen/rNRwVmy
My code pen is above.
header is the parent, where i have placed: display: flex, align-items: center, and justify-content: space-evenly on it.
The child elements of it are .logo-image, .navbar, .btn and .fas - However, .logo-image takes up most of the width as seen by the red background and other flex items are squished to the left and are spaced-evenly. I can define a width on the .logo-image, but why is the default nature of it takes so much space compared to the other flex items?
Thank you
PrimeFlex
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Justify Content - PrimeFlex
PrimeFlex Justify Content defines the alignment on the main axis.
Bootstrap Shuffle
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justify-content-*-between - Bootstrap CSS class
<div class="d-flex justify-content-between"> <div class="p-2">Flex item 1</div> <div class="p-2">Flex item 2</div> <div class="p-2">Flex item 3</div> </div> <!-- responsive variations --> <div class="d-flex justify-content-sm-between">...</div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-md-between">...</div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-lg-between">...</div> <div class="d-flex justify-content-xl-between">...</div>Copy code
PureCode AI
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Justify Content CSS: Empowering You to Make Beautiful Layouts - Blogs
September 15, 2025 - It adds consistent space between each adjacent pair of items, effectively pushing the items to the outer edges of the container while maintaining equal spacing between them. In essence, justify-content is a Flexbox property that governs the horizontal alignment and spacing of flex container items along the main axis...
Web Reference
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justify-content | WebReference
The CSS justify-content property defines how the browser distributes space between and around content items along the main-axis of a flex container, and the inline axis of a grid container.
OpenClassrooms
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Align items and justify content
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CSS-Tricks
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A Complete Guide to CSS Flexbox | CSS-Tricks
February 8, 2026 - Think of it as the justify-content version for the cross-axis (perpendicular to the main-axis). .container { align-items: stretch | flex-start | flex-end | center | baseline | first baseline | last baseline | start | end | self-start | self-end + ... safe | unsafe; } stretch (default): stretch to fill the container (still respect min-width/max-width) flex-start / start / self-start: items are placed at the start of the cross axis. The difference between these is subtle, and is about respecting the flex-direction rules or the writing-mode rules.