Re: [css3-flexbox] Does "width" property on a flex-item affect its used value of "min-width:auto"?

OK, thanks for the sanity-check!

~Daniel

On 09/26/2012 09:38 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:
> You're interpretation is correct. We just have a bug.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi www-style,
>>
>> Suppose you have this simple flex-item in a horizontal flex container:
>>   <div>abc</div>
>> with no fancy style rules affecting it.
>>
>> So it has "min-width:auto" (the default), and that resolves to the
>> min-content width -- in this case, the width of the text "abc".
>>
>> NOW -- suppose we set "width" on the div, e.g.:
>>  <div style="width:1000px">abc</div>
>>
>> MY QUESTION: Does the "width" property there affect the used value of
>> "min-width: auto" that we pass to the flex algorithm?
>>
>> My interpretation: I don't think it should -- to me, the min-content
>> width is a function of the div's contents, and it necessarily doesn't
>> depend on the div's "width" property. (Otherwise, it seems that "width:
>> min-content" would be problematic to define).
>>
>> I'm asking because Webkit's current implementation[1] seems to disagree
>> with me on this (they render the above flex-item as if it had
>> "min-width: 1000px"), and I want to sanity-check my own understanding.
>>
>> (For reference, I filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97747 on
>> this, but that may or may not be a valid bug depending on the outcome of
>> this thread.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~Daniel
>> [1] I tested Chrome dev channel, ver. "23.0.1271.6 dev", Linux x86_6
>>
>>
>

Received on Thursday, 27 September 2012 04:43:34 UTC