Flexbox column-reverse in Firefox, Edge and IE

This is a bug in Firefox, Edge and IE11.

With flex-direction: column-reverse the scroll bar appears only in Chrome.

If you switch to column the scroll bar works on all browsers.

More information:

• Bug 1042151 - flex-direction: column-reverse (or "flex-direction:column; justify-content:flex-end") with overflow-y: auto is not scrollable

• Philip Walton / flexbugs - Column-reverse and overflow-y not scrollable

As a workaround, you can distribute the styles of your container among two different containers:

• The outer one with the sizes, borders and overflow
• The inner one with the flexbox styles

If you want it to be scrolled to the bottom by default, you can use JS: Scroll to bottom of div?

function scrollToBottom(el) { el.scrollTop = el.scrollHeight; }
scrollToBottom(document.getElementById('list'));

#list {
  height: 250px;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  border: 1px solid black;
}
#inner-list {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column-reverse;
}
.item {
  flex: 1;
  padding: 2em;
  border: 1px dashed green;
}

<div id="list">
  <div id="inner-list">
    <div class="item">1</div>
    <div class="item">2</div>
    <div class="item">3</div>
    <div class="item">4</div>
    <div class="item">5</div>
    <div class="item">6</div>
    <div class="item">7</div>
    <div class="item">8</div>
    <div class="item">9</div>
  </div>
</div>