Re: [css3-flexbox] min-height + column + vertical writing mode

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote:
> > In the following example, you would want bar to wrap. Instead, the
> > min-height: min-content on the flex-item gets 40px and it doesn't wrap
> > (right?). This seems like not the behavior we want. The content overflows
> > now where it doesn't need to.
> >
> > <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 30px">
> >     <div>
> >         <div style="writing-mode:vertical-lr;">
> >             <div style="display:inline-block; height: 20px;">foo</div>
> >             <div style="display:inline-block; height: 20px">bar</div>
> >         </div>
> >     </div>
> > </div>
> >
> > Not sure if the problem here is defaulting to min-content on column flex
> > items or if the problem is with the definition of min-content. The
> following
> > case doesn't really do what you want either:
> >
> > <div style="min-height: min-content">
> >     <div style="writing-mode:vertical-lr;">
> >         <div style="display:inline-block; height: 20px;">foo</div>
> >         <div style="display:inline-block; height: 20px">bar</div>
> >     </div>
> > </div>
> >
> > I don't have a good idea of how to fix this though.
>
> Yes, it's a more general problem, but I'm not sure its generally
> fixable.  In many situations you do *not* want "height: min-content;"
> to mean "squish down your height as much as possible".
>

What's an example?