[css-flexbox] Textarea as a flex container

Looking for some guidance from the flexbox spec authors as to whether
the textarea element should, at least in theory, be able to act as a
flex container.

It certainly doesn't seem to work in practice (not in Chrome, Firefox
or Safari on Yosemite anyway). It's possible that this is by design,
but I can't see anything in the spec that suggests this.

Have I missed something in the spec? Or is this an implementation
issue, which would then put textarea into the same category as the
button and fieldset elements, which are already documented (in the
flexbugs Github repo) as being unable to act as flex-containers.

I have already raised this question on flexbugs, and was advised to
ask on www-style for clarification, on the reasonable grounds that
textarea is a bit odd as a container, in that it usually only contains
text nodes. This is entirely true, but nonetheless, I don't see
anything in the spec that says plain text content is exempt from
flexbox layout.

There is a short discussion plus some more detail and a full example
on the Github issue, if needed. See here:
https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs/issues/85

Many thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide.

Regards,

John Waterson
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john@hexism.com

Received on Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:36:18 UTC