Left, center, and right align divs on bottom of same line

Question

I have three divs that I would like to display on the same line. Each of the three has different widths and heights, and they are not straight text. I\'d like to left-align one

Answer 1

You can use align-items: flex-end to make the flexbox items aligned vertically at the bottom.

.container {
  display: flex;
  height: 300px;
  min-width: 400px;
  background-color: #61a0f8;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: flex-end;
}

.item {
  width: 100px;
  height: 120px;
  background-color: #f08bc3;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  color: white;
  font-size: 2rem;
}

.flex-2 {
  width: 140px;
  height: 240px;
}

<div class="container">
  <div class="item">1</div>
  <div class="item flex-2">2</div>
  <div class="item">3</div>
</div>

Answer 2

Set position: relative on the containing div, set position: relative on your 3 divs, and set the bottom attribute of the 3 divs to 0:

bottom: 0

Answer 3

My technique is similar to @Damien-at-SF:

I tried to rigorously demonstrate all the requirements you asked for.

Live Demo

HTML:

<div id="container">

    <div id="left"></div>
    <div id="mid"></div>
    <div id="right"></div>

</div>

CSS:

#container {
    position: relative;
    height: 400px;
    width: 80%;
    min-width: 400px;
    margin: 0 auto;

    background: #ccc
}
#left, #right, #mid {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
}
#left {
    left: 0;
    width: 80px;
    height: 200px;

    background: red
}
#right {
    right: 0;
    width: 120px;
    height: 170px;

    background: blue
}

#mid {
    left:50%;

    margin-left: -80px;
    width: 160px;
    height: 300px;

    background: #f39
}

Answer 4

To make your center div elastic, you could do something like:

<div style="display:table; width:500px;">
  <div style="display:table-row;">
    <div style="display:table-cell; width:50px;"></div>
    <div style="display:table-cell;"></div>
    <div style="display:table-cell; width:50px;"></div>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 5

By setting your container div to position:relative and the child divs to position:absolute you can absolute position the divs within the confines of the container.

This makes it easy, as you can use bottom:0px to align all vertically to the bottom of the container, and then use left/right styling to position along the horizontal axis.

I set up a working jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Damien_at_SF/KM7sQ/5/ and the code follows:

HTML:

<div id="container">
    <div id="left">left</div>
    <div id="center">center</div>
    <div id="right">right</div>    
</div>

CSS:

#container {
    position:relative;
    height:400px;
    width:100%;
    border:thick solid black;
}
#container div {
    background:grey;
    width:200px;
}
#left {
    position:absolute;
    left:0px;
    bottom:0px;
}
#center {
    position:absolute;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-100px;
    bottom:0px;
}
#right {
    position:absolute;
    right:0px;
    bottom:0px;
}

Note: For the "center" div, the margin-left = 1/2 the width of the div :)

Hope that helps :)

Answer 6

A further enhancement to the first answer:

In the "center" div CSS, you need to add:

text-align:center;

In the "right" div CSS, you need to add:

text-align:right;

... to perfectly achieve left/center/right aligning.