Re: [css-align] Definition of align-self inconsistent with css-flexbox for abspos from Christian Biesinger on 2015-04-09 (www-style@w3.org from April 2015)

From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:53:33 -0400
To: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
Cc: Javier Fernandez <jfernandez@igalia.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAPTJ0XE=3KG2a4DzWK3_EfPKj8Dfz77=BBmSrDdh5uUjptPJ3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 04/09/2015 03:32 PM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
>> So at least for children of flex boxes, align-self should never compute to auto.
>
> I don't think it matters if we're a child of a flex box -- "align-self"
> should compute in the same way, regardless of the parent type [aside
> from the "no parent" special-case].
>
> I don't think there's any reason for "align-self:auto" to have custom
> behavior depending on the parent's display property.

So I'm happy either way; I just don't want the specs to contradict each other :)

-christian

Received on Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:54:00 UTC