- From: Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:51:31 +0000
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, Karen Menezes <karen.menezes@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 11/11/14, 2:23 PM, "Alan Stearns" <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: >On 11/10/14, 11:10 PM, "Karen Menezes" <karen.menezes@gmail.com> wrote: > >>I have a question regarding (immediate) children of a parent with >>display: flex, i.e. a flex container. Can a child or flex-item also have >>a display of flex associated with it, thereby becoming a flex-container >>itself? >>I was unable to find the answer here: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/ >>What is the spec's take on this? > >The abstract mentions that nesting flex boxes is an expected use: > >"Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside >horizontal) can be used to build layouts in two dimensions.” Yes; also in section 4 Flex Items: # A flex item establishes a new formatting context for its contents. # The type of this formatting context is determined by its display value, as usual. i.e. a flex item can have display:flex etc. (Incidentally not sure if the abstract is normative…)
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