{"id":21085,"date":"2013-04-17T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?page_id=21085"},"modified":"2021-07-28T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T18:24:38","slug":"align-content","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/a\/align-content\/","title":{"rendered":"align-content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<code>align-content<\/code>&nbsp;property is a sub-property of the&nbsp;<a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//snippets//css//a-guide-to-flexbox///">Flexible Box Layout module<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It helps to align a flex container\u2019s lines within it when there is extra space in the cross-axis, similar to how&nbsp;<code>justify-content<\/code>&nbsp;aligns individual items within the main-axis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note, this property has no effect when the flexbox has only a single line.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<code>align-content<\/code>&nbsp;property accepts 6 different values:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><code>flex-start<\/code>: lines packed to the start of the container<\/li><li><code>flex-end<\/code>: lines packed to the end of the container<\/li><li><code>center<\/code>: lines packed to the center of the container<\/li><li><code>space-between<\/code>: lines evenly distributed; the first line is at the start of the container while the last one is at the end<\/li><li><code>space-around<\/code>: lines evenly distributed with equal space between them<\/li><li><code>stretch<\/code>&nbsp;(<strong>default<\/strong>): lines stretch to take up the remaining space<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The following figure helps understand how the lines are stacked up in a flex container depending on the&nbsp;<code>align-content<\/code>&nbsp;value:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////www.w3.org//TR//css3-flexbox//images//align-content-example.svg/" alt=\"align-content\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-syntax\"><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//almanac//properties//a//align-content//#syntax\"><\/a>Syntax<\/h3>\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">align-content: flex-start | flex-end | center | space-between | space-around | stretch\n\n.flex-container {\n  align-content: space-around;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-demo\"><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//almanac//properties//a//align-content//#demo\"><\/a>Demo<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>The following demo shows how lines are stacked out depending on the&nbsp;<code>align-content<\/code>&nbsp;value:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The red list is set to&nbsp;<code>flex-start<\/code><\/li><li>The yellow list is set to&nbsp;<code>flex-end<\/code><\/li><li>The blue list is set to&nbsp;<code>center<\/code><\/li><li>The green list is set to&nbsp;<code>space-between<\/code><\/li><li>The pink list is set to&nbsp;<code>space-around<\/code><\/li><li>The brown list is set to&nbsp;<code>stretch<\/code><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-codepen-gutenberg-embed-block cp_embed_wrapper\"><iframe id=\"cp_embed_1caa1ef0857a023d0561b5223abef75d\" src=https://css-tricks.com/"////codepen.io//anon//embed//1caa1ef0857a023d0561b5223abef75d?height=450&amp;theme-id=1&amp;slug-hash=1caa1ef0857a023d0561b5223abef75d&amp;default-tab=result\%22 height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allowpaymentrequest name=\"CodePen Embed 1caa1ef0857a023d0561b5223abef75d\" title=\"CodePen Embed 1caa1ef0857a023d0561b5223abef75d\" class=\"cp_embed_iframe\" style=\"width:100%;overflow:hidden\">CodePen Embed Fallback<\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"browser-support\"><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//almanac//properties//a//align-content//#browser-support\"><\/a>Browser support<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>This is support for Flexbox as a whole, which should be the same as this property, since it&#8217;s kind of an <em>original<\/em> property as it were.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"caniuse\"><div class=\"caniuse-header\"><p>This browser support data is from <a href=https://css-tricks.com/"http:////caniuse.com//#feat=flexbox\" rel=\"noopener\">Caniuse<\/a>, which has more detail. A number indicates that browser supports the feature at that version and up.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"caniuse-section\"><h4>Desktop<\/h4><table class=\"browser-support-table\"><thead><tr><th class=\"chrome\"><span>Chrome<\/span><\/th><th class=\"firefox\"><span>Firefox<\/span><\/th><th class=\"ie\"><span>IE<\/span><\/th><th class=\"edge\"><span>Edge<\/span><\/th><th class=\"safari\"><span>Safari<\/span><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Chrome - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">21*<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Firefox - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">28<\/span><\/td><td class=\"a yep-nope yep-nope-partial\" title=\"IE - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">11<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Edge - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">12<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Safari - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">6.1*<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><div class=\"caniuse-section\"><h4>Mobile \/ Tablet<\/h4><table class=\"browser-support-table\"><thead><tr><th class=\"and_chr\"><span>Android Chrome<\/span><\/th><th class=\"and_ff\"><span>Android Firefox<\/span><\/th><th class=\"android\"><span>Android<\/span><\/th><th class=\"ios_saf\"><span>iOS Safari<\/span><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Android Chrome - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">126<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Android Firefox - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">127<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"Android - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">4.4<\/span><\/td><td class=\"y yep\" title=\"iOS Safari - \"><span class=\"caniuse-agents-version version\">7.0-7.1*<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about how to mix syntaxes in order to get the best browser support, please refer to&nbsp;<a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//using-flexbox///">this article (CSS-Tricks)<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////dev.opera.com//articles//view//advanced-cross-browser-flexbox//#fallbacks\" rel=\"noopener\">this article (DevOpera)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"other-resources\"><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//almanac//properties//a//align-content//#other-resources\"><\/a>Other resources<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////www.w3.org//TR//css3-flexbox//#align-content\" rel=\"noopener\"><code>align-items<\/code> in the spec<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////developer.mozilla.org//en-US//docs//CSS//align-content/" rel=\"noopener\"><code>align-items<\/code> at MDN<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////dev.opera.com//articles//view//advanced-cross-browser-flexbox//#fallbacks\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced cross-browser flexbox<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//snippets//css//a-guide-to-flexbox///">A guide to Flexbox<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//using-flexbox///">Using Flexbox<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//old-flexbox-and-new-flexbox///">Old Flexbox and new Flexbox<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;align-content&nbsp;property is a sub-property of the&nbsp;Flexible Box Layout module. 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