RE: [css3-flexbox] does flex-order impact stacking order of overlapping content

BTW that is also consistent with grid (which reorders even more, but there is no new natural order after that, so document order is the most appropriate)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Mogilevsky
>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:04 PM
>To: Alex Mogilevsky; Daniel Holbert; www-style@w3.org list
>Subject: RE: [css3-flexbox] does flex-order impact stacking order of
>overlapping content
>
>Can't find the thread, I think it was a couple of years ago.
>
>Anyway, apparently we use document order for drawing even if reordered in
>flexbox, so it agrees with what you are saying.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Alex Mogilevsky [mailto:alexmog@microsoft.com]
>>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:22 PM
>>To: Daniel Holbert; www-style@w3.org list
>>Subject: RE: [css3-flexbox] does flex-order impact stacking order of
>>overlapping content
>>
>>>From: Daniel Holbert [mailto:dholbert@mozilla.com]
>>>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:04 PM
>>>To: www-style@w3.org list
>>>Subject: [css3-flexbox] does flex-order impact stacking order of
>>>overlapping content
>>>
>>>Hi www-style,
>>>
>>>In the current Flexbox ED "Layout Algorithm" section, it says this
>>>about
>>>flex-order:
>>>
>>> > Re-order the flexbox items according to their 'flex-order'.
>>>[...]
>>> > This affects the order in which the flexbox items generate  > boxes
>>> > in
>>>the box-tree
>>>
>>>Given that -- hypothetically, if two flexbox items were to contain
>>>overlapping content[1], would flex-order have any effect on which one
>>>overlaps the other? (i.e. does flex-order affect stacking in the z
>>>axis?)
>>
>>We have discussed this before. Let me look it up.
>>

Received on Friday, 27 January 2012 21:06:59 UTC