Re: [css-ui][css-flexbox] Should 'text-overflow' work on flexboxes?

On 09/04/2013 11:31 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:24 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
>> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-ui/#text-overflow says:
>>    # This property specifies rendering when inline content overflows
>>    # its block container element ("the block") in its inline
>>    # progression direction that has ‘overflow’ other than ‘visible’.
>>
>> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox/#flex-containers says:
>>    # Flex containers are not block containers,
>>
>> Yet https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912434 was filed
>> with the expectation that text-overflow work on flexboxes, which
>> seems like a pretty reasonable expectation to me.
>>
>> Should it?
>
> Flex containers never contain inline content - they coerce all their
> children into blocks (sometimes anonymous ones).  Flex *items* can
> contain inline content, and they're whatever type of container their
> 'display' says they are.
>
> That said, I'm not opposed to special-casing flexboxes so that
> anonymous flex items take their 'text-overflow' value from the
> flexbox.  Any more properties that we should do this for?

I agree with dholbert. Especially given that
   <div style="text-overflow: ellipsis">
     <div>some text</div>
   </div>
doesn't work, I don't think it makes sense to special-case things
so that adding "display: flex" to that outer <div> makes it work.

~fantasai