This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 16991 - "flex-basis:auto" should be max-content, not fit-content
Summary: "flex-basis:auto" should be max-content, not fit-content
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Flexbox (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P1 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tab Atkins Jr.
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-05-08 03:00 UTC by Alex Mogilevsky
Modified: 2012-05-09 22:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description Alex Mogilevsky 2012-05-08 03:00:16 UTC 
in step 9.2.3 "Determine the hypothetical main size of each item", 'auto' should be treated as 'max-content'

"available space" within flexbox is not really what is available to each item, unless it is a single-item row-direction flexbox. Clipping to that seems random, it loses valuable sizing information.
Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2012-05-09 22:19:53 UTC 
Done.