- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:33:49 -0700
- To: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
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
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