Re: [css-flexbox] 'stretch' can shrink flex items - is this intended?

On 6/26/13 1:37 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
>> See the regions/flexbox thread from today [1]. You and I have different
>> opinions on what happens when.
>>
>> When I say that the result of the regions processing model provides an
>> input to the flex layout algorithm, I mean the *entire* regions
>>processing
>> model. You're picking out an answer from the middle.
>
>Ah, I see I was misreading the region algorithm.  It's confusing,
>because you resolve height, like, 3 times.
>
>Still, the effect of 'stretch' is very limited.  It only shrinks
>things if the flexbox has a single line, and a definite cross size.
>You can treat that equivalently to an additional min and max height
>constraint.
>
>~TJ

Ah, you're right that the shrinking only happens with a definite cross
size. Since that can be used as a constraint in the regions processing
model, that means you'll never get an answer for an auto-height region
flex item that is taller than the cross size. I'd figured that out a few
days ago, then forgot it today.

So the shrinkiness of stretch isn't a problem for regions. I still think
it's weird, though.

Thanks!

Alan

Received on Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:54:06 UTC