Daniel,

Thanks for the quick reply!
The anonymous block is what I've missed.

Cheers,
Amit

On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 5:57:29 PM UTC+2, Daniel Holbert wrote:
> Fixed fiddle:
>  http://jsfiddle.net/eum5bxub/4/
> 
> Basically what happens here is:
>  (1) The text gets wrapped in an anonymous block, which is the flex item.
> 
>  (2) We run the flex algorithm, with 150px to divy up. We *try* to
> shrink that flex item, but we can't because it has (default)
> "min-width:auto", which prevents it from shrinking below its min-content
> width (the width of the longest word).
> 
>  (3) So, the flex item ends up at its min-content width, which is larger
> than the container -- it overflows.
> 
> To work around this, you need to:
>  - Create an explicit flex item (just an extra layer of <div) which you
> can directly style, instead of using an anonymous flex item for the text.
>  - style that flex item with "min-width:0" to allow it to shrink below
> its min-content size.
> 
> This doesn't affect Chrome, Safari, & Opera because they haven't
> implemented "min-width:auto", which means they don't stop the flex item
> from shrinking in step (2) above.  Once they do implement it (& catch up
> with the spec), you'll see the same behavior from them too.
> 
> Blink bug for that:
>  https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=426898
> 
> (There's probably a webkit version of that bug too but I don't have it
> handy right now.)
> 
> ~Daniel
> 
> 
> On 02/08/2015 02:08 AM, Amit Zur wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > See this fiddle:
> > http://jsfiddle.net/eum5bxub/3/
> > 
> > In firefox (version 35) the first box doesn't have wrapped text, but it 
> > should.
> > Chrome, Safari & Opera get it right.
> > I'm on Mac OS X 10.10
> > 
> > 
> > Did I do anything wrong? Can you verify if this is a bug?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Amit
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