I have the following HTML/CSS code, whenever I toggle the display: flex in .cards-container the height of the .card div seems to shrink (when display: flex is not present) and grow (when display: flex is present).
I was wondering what’s the reason for this behaviour, I thought that flexbox didn’t affect the size of inner divs.
When display: flex is present in .cards-container:
* {
font-family: sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.cards-container {
display: flex;
background-color: #e8e8e8;
}
.card {
width: 250px;
height: fit-content;
border-radius: 30px;
background-color: white;
}
.card > .card-bottom-container {
margin: 1rem;
gap: 1rem;
}
.card > .card-bottom-container > .card-tags-container {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 0.5rem;
}
.card > .card-bottom-container > .card-tags-container > .card-tag {
background-color: red;
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 10px;
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="cards-container">
<div class="card">
<div class="card-bottom-container">
<div class="card-tags-container">
<a href="/path-1" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-2" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-3" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-4" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-5" class="card-tag"></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>When display: flex is NOT present in .cards-container:
* {
font-family: sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.cards-container {
background-color: #e8e8e8;
}
.card {
width: 250px;
height: fit-content;
border-radius: 30px;
background-color: white;
}
.card > .card-bottom-container {
margin: 1rem;
gap: 1rem;
}
.card > .card-bottom-container > .card-tags-container {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 0.5rem;
}
.card > .card-bottom-container > .card-tags-container > .card-tag {
background-color: red;
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 10px;
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="cards-container">
<div class="card">
<div class="card-bottom-container">
<div class="card-tags-container">
<a href="/path-1" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-2" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-3" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-4" class="card-tag"></a>
<a href="/path-5" class="card-tag"></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>