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

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Take your second example, except fill it with a decent paragraph worth
> of text instead of two small inline-blocks.  Now, the minimum height
> is achieved by taking every linebreak and making it ridiculously wide.
>

Isn't that exactly what it means in a horizontal writing-mode width context
as well (i.e. you get a really tall item)? What's different about the fact
that it's a height?


> ~TJ
>