Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-align] Vertical alignment for Grid/Flex items content

*All* children of a flexbox become flex items (raw text gets wrapped in an anonymous flex item).  This is intentional, and allows many good effects.

It does mean, as you discovered, that you can't use a Flexbox or Grid to center mixed inline content of an element.  Right now, you need a wrapper for that.  The Align spec defines how the alignment properties should work on `display:block`, tho, and when browsers implement that, you'll be able to vertically center the contents of a block element directly.

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