Aligning navbar unordered list with flexbox

Question

I am using flexbox to create a navbar - A Codepen here. I want a logo on the left and the links on the right of the navbar.

However I cannot workout how to use flex-end to good effect. My links in the unordered list do not appear to be affected by flexbox. Is there a special way to bind flexbox to a navbar?

My HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway" />
<nav>
    <!-- Primary Logo -->
    <div id="logo">
        <img src="http://www.shinetown.com.sg/shinetown/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/logo-dummy.png" alt="NewCircle">
    </div>
    <!-- Primary Navigation -->
    <div id="navigation">
        <ul>
            <li class="current"><a href="#">Home</a>
            <li><a href="#">Products</a>
            <li><a href="#">Pricing Plans</a>
            <li><a href="#">Help</a>
        </ul>
    </div>
</nav>

and my Stylus code:

nav-height = 100px
primary-color = #FF5B4E
primary-text-color = #444
secondary-border-color = #EEE

body {
  font-family: Raleway
}

nav, nav *
  display: flex
  align-items: center
  width: 100%

nav
  height: nav-height
  border-bottom: 5px solid secondary-border-color

  #logo
    width: 300px
    height: nav-height
    border-right: 1px solid secondary-border-color
    padding: 0 1em 0 1em

    img
      max-width: 100%


  #navigation
    height: 100%
    justify-content: flex-end

    ul
      list-style-type: none
      padding: 0
      height: 100%
      margin: 0

      li
        height: 100%
        a
          height: 100%
          transition: color 0.4s ease
          font-weight: bold
          font-size: 13px
          letter-spacing: 1px
          text-transform: uppercase
          text-align: center
          text-decoration: none
          color: primary-text-color
          padding: 0 18px 0 18px

        a:hover
          color: primary-color

      .current
        > a
          color: primary-color

Answer 1

flex-end won't solve it, margin-left: auto will.

nav, nav *
  display: flex
  align-items: center

  #navigation
    height: 100%
    margin-left: auto

Also, in the rule you have nav *, which will make all nav's descendants to have 100% width, and the #navigation can't align right being full width.

Removing width: 100% from your nav, nav * rule will fix that.

Updated codepen

Stack snippet

body {
  font-family: Raleway;
}
nav,
nav * {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}
nav {
  height: 100px;
  border-bottom: 5px solid #eee;
}
nav #logo {
  width: 300px;
  height: 100px;
  border-right: 1px solid #eee;
  padding: 0 1em 0 1em;
}
nav #logo img {
  max-width: 100%;
}
nav #navigation {
  height: 100%;
  margin-left: auto;
}
nav #navigation ul {
  list-style-type: none;
  padding: 0;
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
}
nav #navigation ul li {
  height: 100%;
}
nav #navigation ul li a {
  height: 100%;
  transition: color 0.4s ease;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 13px;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #444;
  padding: 0 18px 0 18px;
}
nav #navigation ul li a:hover {
  color: #ff5b4e;
}
nav #navigation ul .current > a {
  color: #ff5b4e;
}

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway" />
<nav>
    <!-- Primary Logo -->
    <div id="logo">
        <img src="http://www.shinetown.com.sg/shinetown/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/logo-dummy.png" alt="NewCircle">
    </div>
    <!-- Primary Navigation -->
    <div id="navigation">
        <ul>
            <li class="current"><a href="#">Home</a>
            <li><a href="#">Products</a>
            <li><a href="#">Pricing Plans</a>
            <li><a href="#">Help</a>
        </ul>
    </div>
</nav>

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Note, the justify-content: flex-end should be used on the flex container, not on flex items. When one want to set it on a flex item, use align-self: flex-end.

In this case the flex has row direction, so the align-self won't work as it applies on the cross axis, hence margin-left: auto will do the trick.