Re: [css-flexbox] Firefox+IE absolutely-positioned bug?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/2014 04:51 PM, Bruno Racineux wrote:
>> But I am confused as to why it says that absolutely positioned flex items
>> participate in the reordering step then?
>>
>> What reordering there is if they line up with the container? Can you
>> briefly explain where the reordering step occur?
>
> I believe they only effectively participate for the purpose of *stacking
> order*. (So, it becomes another flavor of z-index, for those children.)

Yes, this.  'order', in general, affects painting order, and it was
considered to be inconsistent to make abspos children not also be
affected by that.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:34:37 UTC