1264147 - [css-flexbox] the 'order' property should affect absolutely-positioned flex children

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: testcase

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox/#abspos-items
"... it does participate in the reordering step (see order), which has an effect on painting order."

Background discussion:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2016Apr/0221.html

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Fwiw, it works fine in Grid so feel free to copy the abs.pos. painting code from there.

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

The spec editors are currently proposing the removal of this spec-text:
 https://www.w3.org/mid/[e-mail]

As I said in my response, though, I don't have strong feelings on how this should work (aside that it should be consistent between flex & grid).

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(We don't explicitly exclude abspos children from "order" right now -- the reason it *looks* like we do is that we wrap abspos children's placeholders in anonymous flex items right now. So, those placeholders don't end up being directly children of the flex containers right now.  That'll change soon, though, in 874718, which I'm hoping to fix in the next month or so.)

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

dbaron says the CSSWG has decided to change the Grid spec instead (bug 1266131).