Re: [css-flexbox] "special case for handling stretched flex items" text needs "cross-size:auto" qualifier

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Hi www-style,
>
> Currently, the flexbox ED has this text:
>
>  # As a special case for handling stretched flex items, if a
>  # single-line flex container has a definite cross size, the
>  # outer cross size of any flex items with align-self: stretch
>  # is the flex container's inner cross size (clamped to the
>  # flex item's min and max cross size)
>
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox/#layout-algorithm
>
> I think that language is a little too broad.
>
> In particular, the phrase "any flex items with align-self: stretch" is
> too broad. It needs a qualifier like:
>  # ...and whose cross-size property computes to 'auto'
>
> ...because "align-self:stretch" is only supposed to have an effect for
> flex items whose cross-size property is 'auto', per:
>  http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox/#valuedef-stretch0

Fixed by adding a definition for "stretched" that hits all the
requirements, and then using that term instead in the layout algo.

~TJ