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Absolutely positioned flex item is not removed from the normal flow in IE11

We have two divs with content and a third div that is a background with absolute position.

Container is a flexbox.

All works fine in Chrome and Safari, but Firefox and IE11 factors in the absolute positioned div, and distributes space between divs like there are 3 divs in a row.

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I've made jsfiddle example. Is there any way to fix this bug? https://jsfiddle.net/s18do03e/2/

div.container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  width: 100%;
  height: 300px;
  justify-content: space-between;
  width: 100%;
  outline: 1px solid;
}
div.c1 {
  background: #aaeecc;
  width: 100px;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 50;
  top: 20px;
  display: flex;
}
div.c2 {
  background: #cceeaa;
  width: 200px;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 50;
  top: 20px;
  display: flex;
}
div.bg {
  background: #ccc;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  z-index: 0;
  left: 0px;
  top: 0px;
  position: absolute;
  display: flex;
}
<div class="container">
  <div class="c1">Content 1</div>
  <div class="c2">Content 2</div>
  <div class="bg">Background</div>
</div>

Solution

  • It is happening because justify-content: space-between; Distribute items evenly The first item at the start, the last at the end. So just putt <div class="bg">Background</div> between <div class="c1">Content 1</div> and <div class="c2">Content 2</div> like this 

    <div class="container">
    <div class="c1">Content 1</div>
    <div class="bg">Background</div>
    <div class="c2">Content 2</div>

</div>

    You can see the reason on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content