Re: [css-flexbox] feedback

Unfortunately no, I wasn't able to get the page-break-before to accomplish
what I was hoping for. Thanks for the suggestion though.


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> On 06/10/2014 04:01 PM, Cory Brown wrote:
> > Even attempting
> > to create some JavaScript that will do this has been a big challenge
> > since there doesn't seem to be a straight-forward way to force a row
> > break between flex-items.
>
> FWIW, the "page-break-before"/"page-break-after" properties should let
> you force wrapping to happen at a particular point, though I'm not sure
> that behavior is implemented in all browsers right now.
>
> Spec reference:
>  # A break is forced wherever the CSS2.1
>  # page-break-before/page-break-after [CSS21] or
>  # the CSS3 break-before/break-after [CSS3-BREAK]
>  # properties specify a fragmentation break.
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox/#algo-line-break
>
> Testcase/reference (works in Firefox, but doesn't seem to work in Blink):
>
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/reftests/w3c-css/submitted/flexbox/flexbox-break-request-horiz-1a.html
>
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/reftests/w3c-css/submitted/flexbox/flexbox-break-request-horiz-1-ref.html
>
> (The last 3 dashed boxes on the second row there are the cases where I
> believe a not-otherwise-necessary break should be forced, due to
> "page-break-before".)
>
> If that worked interoperably, would this address your use-case?
>
> ~Daniel
>



-- 
Cory Brown