Flex item won't shrink with overflow - it still remains as high as content

I want one of the children of the display: flex; to adjust the height to the others. If the content in this children is bigger than the other children's, then overflow: scroll; should be done to this content.

In other words: I expect the middle div (yellow background) from the following code to adjust its height to the others div's with overflow of .tabl.

I know that the question is like many others. I have already read many threads and I still have not managed to solve the problem. I apologize for this post, but I do not have the strength to solve it.

.parent {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  flex-wrap: nowrap;
  align-items: baseline;
}

.child1 {
  background-color: red;
  align-self: stretch;
  width: 25%;
  min-width: 25%;
  max-width: 25%;
}

.child2 {
  background-color: yellow;
  min-height: 0;
  min-width: 0;
  overflow: auto;
  margin: 0 15px;
  width: calc(50% - 30px);
  max-width: calc(50% - 30px);
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  flex-shrink: 1;
}

.child3 {
  background-color: green;
  width: 25%;
  min-width: 25%;
  max-width: 25%;
}

.child2 .tabl {
  flex-shrink: 1;
  min-height: 0;
  overflow: scroll;
}

<div class="parent">
  <div class="child1">
    <p>Some element one</p>
    <p>Some element two</p>
    <p>Some element three</p>
    <p>Some element four</p>
  </div>
  
  <div class="child2">
    <div class="info">
      <h2>Element</h2>
    </div>
    <div class="tabl">
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
    </div>
    <div class="footer">
      <button class="btn">Some button</button>
    </div>
  </div>
  
  <div class="child3">
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
  </div>
</div>

Solution

I want one of the children of the display: flex; to adjust the height to the others.

Suppose you want the green section (child3) to have the largest height:

make sure you have align-items: stretch (its the default, so don't override it) - this ensures that each row flex child stretches to the maximum height flex child.
wrap the contents of the other sections (child1 and child2) into an absolutely positioned element.
make this wrapper element a column flexbox to get the overflow right on the yellow section.

See demo below:

.parent {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  flex-wrap: nowrap;
  /*align-items: baseline;*/
}

.child1 {
  background-color: red;
  align-self: stretch;
  width: 25%;
  min-width: 25%;
  max-width: 25%;
}

.child2 {
  background-color: yellow;
  min-height: 0;
  min-width: 0;
  overflow: auto;
  margin: 0 15px;
  width: calc(50% - 30px);
  max-width: calc(50% - 30px);
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  flex-shrink: 1;
}

.child3 {
  background-color: green;
  width: 25%;
  min-width: 25%;
  max-width: 25%;
}

.child2 .tabl {
  flex-shrink: 1;
  min-height: 0;
  overflow: auto; /* changed to auto */
}

.child1, .child2, .child3 { /* ADDED */
  position: relative;
}

.child-wrap { /* ADDED */
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

<div class="parent">
  <div class="child1">
  <div class="child-wrap">
    <p>Some element one</p>
    <p>Some element two</p>
    <p>Some element three</p>
    <p>Some element four</p></div>
  </div>
  
  <div class="child2">
  <div class="child-wrap">
    <div class="info">
      <h2>Element</h2>
    </div>
    <div class="tabl">
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
    </div>
    <div class="footer">
      <button class="btn">Some button</button>
    </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  
  <div class="child3">
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
      <p>Some element one</p>
      <p>Some element two</p>
      <p>Some element three</p>
      <p>Some element four</p>
  </div>
</div>

Suppose you want either of the left or right sections to have the maximum height - in that case use the above absolute positioning only for the middle yellow element - see demo below where the highest of the left or right elements define the height of the whole parent wrapper :

.parent {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  flex-wrap: nowrap;
  /*align-items: baseline;*/
}

.child1 {
  background-color: red;
  align-self: stretch;
  width: 25%;
  min-width: 25%;
  max-width: 25%;
}

.child2 {
  background-color: yellow;
  min-height: 0;
  min-width: 0;
  overflow: auto;
  margin: 0 15px;
  width: calc(50% - 30px);
  max-width: calc(50% - 30px);
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  flex-shrink: 1;
}

.child3 {
  background-color: green;
  width: 25%;
  min-width: 25%;
  max-width: 25%;
}

.child2 .tabl {
  flex-shrink: 1;
  min-height: 0;
  overflow: auto; /* changed to auto */
}

.child1, .child2, .child3 { /* ADDED */
  position: relative;
}

.child-wrap { /* ADDED */
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

<div class="parent">
  <div class="child1">
    <p>Some element one</p>
    <p>Some element two</p>
    <p>Some element three</p>
    <p>Some element four</p>
    <p>Some element two</p>
    <p>Some element three</p>
    <p>Some element four</p>
  </div>

  <div class="child2">
    <div class="child-wrap">
      <div class="info">
        <h2>Element</h2>
      </div>
      <div class="tabl">
        <p>Some element one</p>
        <p>Some element two</p>
        <p>Some element three</p>
        <p>Some element four</p>
        <p>Some element one</p>
        <p>Some element two</p>
        <p>Some element three</p>
        <p>Some element four</p>
        <p>Some element one</p>
        <p>Some element two</p>
        <p>Some element three</p>
        <p>Some element four</p>
        <p>Some element one</p>
        <p>Some element two</p>
        <p>Some element three</p>
        <p>Some element four</p>
      </div>
      <div class="footer">
        <button class="btn">Some button</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="child3">
    <p>Some element one</p>
    <p>Some element two</p>
    <p>Some element three</p>

  </div>
</div>