CSS Flexbox Causing Unexpected Overlapping of Child Elements in a Responsive Navbar
I've been banging my head against this for hours. I'm working on a responsive navbar using Flexbox, and I'm working with a question where the child elements are overlapping when the viewport size decreases. The navbar items are set to shrink to fit, but when I resize the browser window to smaller sizes, the last item overlaps the second-to-last item instead of stacking properly. I've tried using `flex-wrap: wrap;` on the navbar container, but it doesn't seem to resolve the scenario. Here’s a simplified version of my CSS and HTML: ```html <nav class="navbar"> <ul class="navbar-items"> <li class="navbar-item">Home</li> <li class="navbar-item">About</li> <li class="navbar-item">Services</li> <li class="navbar-item">Contact</li> </ul> </nav> ``` ```css .navbar { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; background: #333; padding: 10px; } .navbar-items { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; } .navbar-item { flex: 1; color: white; text-align: center; padding: 10px; transition: background 0.3s; } .navbar-item:hover { background: #555; } ``` When I inspect the elements, I see that the `flex: 1;` property is making all items take equal space, which I suspect is part of the scenario. However, if I change `flex: 1;` to `flex: 0 1 auto;`, the items don't take up enough space. I’m looking for a way to ensure that the navbar items maintain their layout and don’t overlap as the viewport shrinks. I’m using Chrome version 94.0 and have also tested this on Firefox, with similar results. Any advice on how to solve this overlapping scenario would be greatly appreciated! For context: I'm using Html/Css on macOS. Any help would be greatly appreciated! My development environment is macOS. What am I doing wrong? I've been using Html/Css for about a year now. Thanks for taking the time to read this!