Tailwind: Flex Col Justify Between Middle Full Height/Width?

I have this tailwind snippet:

<div class="min-h-screen flex flex-col justify-between">
  <header class="p-4 bg-teal-500 text-center text-white font-bold">Header</header>
  <main class="h-64 bg-teal-600 flex items-center justify-center text-white">Main</main>
  <footer class="p-4 bg-teal-500 text-center text-white font-bold">Footer</footer>
</div>

and here is the preview:

How to make the main section has full height that close the edges between header and footer?

Comments

[Douglas Parsons]

Hey,

You've got justify-between on the outermost div. This is telling it to space out header main and footer equally (with space between). I don't think you need this.

To get the main section to grow and fill the content, you need a flex-grow property. This is done in tailwind through a flex-grow class.

Fixing those two things should give you this:

<div class="min-h-screen flex flex-col">
  <header class="p-4 bg-teal-500 text-center text-white font-bold">Header</header>
  <main class="h-64 bg-teal-600 flex items-center flex-grow justify-center text-white">Main</main>
  <footer class="p-4 bg-teal-500 text-center text-white font-bold">Footer</footer>
</div>

Which looks like...

Hope this helps :)

[Dendi Handian]

Thanks, It works :)

[Alick Chinga]

Have you tried to remove the specified height you have on the main tag - h-64 and change flex to flex-1 or flex-auto on the main tag

[Dendi Handian]

<div class="min-h-screen flex-auto flex-col justify-between">
  <header class="p-4 bg-teal-500 text-center text-white font-bold">Header</header>
  <main class="bg-teal-600 flex items-center justify-center text-white">Main</main>
  <footer class="p-4 bg-teal-500 text-center text-white font-bold">Footer</footer>
</div>

It doesn't cover the screen height but Douglas' answer seems right. But Thanks for your answer!

[Alick Chinga]

You need to put the flex-auto or flex-grow class as in Douglas's answer.