Re: [css3-flexbox] width:flex() in DOM

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > How should be flexible width exposed in DOM, in particular in existing
> APIs?
> >
> > I think I have the answer, just want to check:
> >
> > If something has “width:flex(1)”,
> >
> > element.style.width returns the specified value – “flex(1)” or “flex(1 0
> > auto)” (should be ok to expand the defaults).
>

Note that the default preferred width is 0 so in your example flex(1) is
equivalent to flex(1 0 0).



> > getComputedStyle() returns used value (pixels), after any flexibility has
> > done its damage.
> >
> > element.offsetWidth returns pixels as well
> >
> > Right?
>
> Yes, all of these fall out of the definition of specified values and
> used values.
>
> ~TJ
>
>