Make 2 anchors take up 100% of div

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I want the "Home" and "History" tab to take up 100% of the parent div but when I enter 100% in the css it clips out. I also want the overflow to be hidden so making it visible isn't a solution.

HTML:

.bottom {
        background-color: red;
        width: 100%;
        max-width: 3000px;
        max-height: 200px;
        margin: auto;
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
        align-content: center;
        align-items: center;
        border-style: solid;
    }
    .navBottom{
        overflow: hidden;
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;

    }   
    .navBottom a {
      color: white;
      text-align: center;
      padding: 1vh 50px;
      max-height: 200px;
      text-decoration: none;
      font-size: 1.8vh;
      border-right: 2px solid black;
      text-shadow: #000 0px 0px 1px,   #000 0px 0px 1px,   #000 0px 0px 1px, #000 0px 0px 1px,   #000 0px 0px 1px,   #000 0px 0px 1px, #000 0px 0px 1px, #000 0px 0px 1px;
    }

CSS:

<pre><div class="bottom">
            <div class="navBottom">
            <a href="../index.html">Home</a>
            <a href="history.html">History</a>
          </div>
            </div>

Full code: https://codepen.io/Marshjek/pen/KQZVBQ

What I have tried:

making padding 100%, making width 100%, tried em, rem, vw and vw

Posted 3-Jun-22 23:22pm

Member 15661705

Updated 16-Jul-23 22:18pm

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2023-07-16T22:18:00

Your pen links to a pen which appears to contain the CodePen home page source, which doesn't help.

If you want the two links to stretch to fill the width of the parent, then you need to add flex-grow: 1; to the style for the links, and for the .navBottom container:

CSS

.navBottom{
    flex-grow: 1;
    ...
}   
.navBottom a {
    flex-grow: 1;
    ...
}

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