<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>flexbox | align-items: flex-start</title> <link href="http://opera.com" rel="author" title="Opera Software" /> <link href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#propdef-align-items" rel="help" /> <link href="reference/flexbox_align-items-flexstart-ref.xht" rel="match" /> <style> div { background: blue; margin: 1em 0; border: 1px solid black; height: 6em; width: 30em; display: flex; align-items: flex-start; } span { background: white; margin: 0 1em; width: 8em; display: inline-block; flex: none; } span:nth-child(1) {background: yellow;} span:nth-child(2) {background: pink;} span:nth-child(3) {background: lightblue;} </style> </head><body><div> <span>one</span> <span>two</span> <span>three</span> </div> </body></html>