Re: [css-flexbox] Understanding flexbox-flex-direction-column.htm

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 03/24/2015 06:26 PM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
>> dholbert points out that "content" should be "auto" in this sentence
>> of the spec:
>>> If the item’s computed flex-basis is definite, or the item’s computed flex-basis is content and its computed main size property is definite
>>
>> Could someone update the spec? :) Thanks!
>
> Actually, on further reflection, I'm less sure about that. (I think I
> mixed this up with another content <--> auto renaming spec-bug which was
> actually fixed.)
>
> Stepping back: so, for that testcase to work, the spec needs to
> effectively say: "If you have a flex item with an explicit height &
> default flex properties, don't let its min-height:auto value resolve to
> anything larger than its explicit height."

Hmm but that doesn't actually seem right either. I just remembered this test:
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-flexbox-1_dev/nightly-unstable/html/flexbox_min-width-auto.htm

Which explicitly assumes that min-width: auto would resolve to
something bigger than its width: 0. Same for the height version of
that testcase.

-christian