Re: [css-flexbox] Computation Algorithm

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> Interesting.  If you remove the text from #box2 and #box3 (and set
> explicit heights, so you can see them), they do have exactly a 1:2
> relationship.  Some quick testing shows that they're ignoring the
> width:0 and instead using the minimum width of the text as their
> preferred widths in the flex calculation.  This only happens if the
> width property is less than the width of the text.
>

I think what's happening is that the min-width of the boxes is being set to
the sum of the min-widths of the children, and then 'width' is constrained
by that min-width.

Rob
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