Centering flex items with overflow

Have you ever tried scrolling horizontally a list of flex items that are justify-center and end up with the first item not shown or partially hidden.

Well, it just happened to me while working on staking crypto.

Well this is very annoying, but fortunately enough, here is the solution to this problem in 3 simple steps.

For Tailwind

1. Remove justify-center from the parent element
2. Apply ml-auto to the first element
3. Apply mr-auto to the last element

Tailwind having great utility classes, this can just be done in one step

• Replace justify-center by [&>*:first-child]:ml-auto [&>*:last-child]:mr-auto

Here is a Playground

For CSS

1. Remove justify-content:center from the parent element
2. Apply margin-left: auto to the first element
3. Apply margin-right: auto to the last element

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