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A more flex approach would be to use an auto left margin (flex items treat auto margins a bit differently than when used in a block formatting context).

.c {

    margin-left: auto;

}

Updated fiddle:

.main { display: flex; }

.a, .b, .c { background: #efefef; border: 1px solid #999; }

.b { flex: 1; text-align: center; }

.c {margin-left: auto;}

<h2>With title</h2>

<div class="main">

    <div class="a"><a href="#">Home</a></div>

    <div class="b"><a href="#">Some title centered</a></div>

    <div class="c"><a href="#">Contact</a></div>

</div>

<h2>Without title</h2>

<div class="main">

    <div class="a"><a href="#">Home</a></div>

    <!--<div class="b"><a href="#">Some title centered</a></div>-->

    <div class="c"><a href="#">Contact</a></div>

</div>

<h1>Problem</h1>

<p>Is there a more flexbox-ish way to right align "Contact" than to use position absolute?</p>

If you want to use flexbox for this, you should be able to, by doing this (display: flex on the container, flex: 1 on the items, and text-align: right on .c):

.main { display: flex; }

.a, .b, .c {

  background: #efefef;

  border: 1px solid #999;

  flex: 1;

}

.b { text-align: center; }

.c { text-align: right; }

...or alternatively (even simpler), if the items don't need to meet, you can use justify-content: space-between on the container and remove the text-align rules completely:

.main { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; }

.a, .b, .c { background: #efefef; border: 1px solid #999; }

Here's a demo on Codepen to allow you to quickly try the above.

You can also use a filler to fill the remaining space.

<div class="main">

    <div class="a"><a href="#">Home</a></div>

    <div class="b"><a href="#">Some title centered</a></div>

    <div class="filler"></div>

    <div class="c"><a href="#">Contact</a></div>

</div>



.filler{

    flex-grow: 1;

}

I have updated the solution with 3 different versions. This because of the discussion of the validity of using an additional filler element. If you run the code snipped you see that all solutions do different things. For instance setting the filler class on item b will make this item fill the remaining space. This has the benefit that there is no 'dead' space that is not clickable.

<div class="mainfiller">

    <div class="a"><a href="#">Home</a></div>

    <div class="b"><a href="#">Some title centered</a></div>

    <div class="filler"></div>

    <div class="c"><a href="#">Contact</a></div>

</div>



<div class="mainfiller">

    <div class="a"><a href="#">Home</a></div>

    <div class="filler b"><a href="#">Some title centered</a></div>

    <div class="c"><a href="#">Contact</a></div>

</div>







<div class="main">

    <div class="a"><a href="#">Home</a></div>

    <div class="b"><a href="#">Some title centered</a></div>

    <div class="c"><a href="#">Contact</a></div>

</div>



<style>

.main { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; }

.mainfiller{display: flex;}

.filler{flex-grow:1; text-align:center}

.a, .b, .c { background: yellow; border: 1px solid #999; }

</style>

Or you could just use justify-content: flex-end

.main { display: flex; }

.c { justify-content: flex-end; }

As easy as

.main { display: flex; flex-direction:row-reverse;}

If you need one item to be left aligned (like a header) but then multiple items right aligned (like 3 images), then you would do something like this:

h1 {

   flex-basis: 100%; // forces this element to take up any remaining space

}



img {

   margin: 0 5px; // small margin between images

   height: 50px; // image width will be in relation to height, in case images are large - optional if images are already the proper size

}

Here's what that will look like (only relavent CSS was included in snippet above)

Add the following css class to your stylesheet:

.my-spacer {
flex: 1 1 auto;
}

Place an empty element between the element on the left and the element you wish to right-align:

<span class="my-spacer"></span>

I find that adding 'justify-content: flex-end' to the flex container solves the problem while 'justify-content: space-between' doesnt do anything.

'justify-content: flex-end' worked within price box container.

.price-box {

    justify-content: flex-end;

}