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A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them.

32 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 4 stories, 28 comments · first 2015-01-05 · latest 2024-01-10

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  1. For old features yes, for new ones it depends. https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs And there could be changes because of security concerns like with alert (), prompt() and confirm().
  2. …for example there's a documented set of issues in flex implementations maintained here: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs It might be practical and possible to become mainstream for some domains, but it's doubtful for others. The…
  3. …until recently[2]. [1] https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/verti... [2] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs Most of the flexbugs are now fixed and flex should be recommended way of making layouts.
    comment by Chyzwar · 2020-05-19 · in How to Center in CSS (2015)
  4. …caniuse to determine the best css to use for a individual's use case. See also his own flexbugs ( https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs ), which ironically is linked directly from caniuse's 'known issues'.
    comment by cmroanirgo · 2019-09-30 · in Sticky Footer
  5. …iframe scrolling is broken, it's historically suffered from some frustrating flexbox bugs (see https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs#flexbug-11 ), its Can I use... score lags behind Firefox and Chrome. For a while, it didn't support…
  6. …Grid properties with Flexbox as fallback. Its bugs are well-documented, and most have workarounds https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs . Even inline-block can serve as a fallback, if you can avoid whitespace around tags in the markup (…
  7. https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
  8. …that knowledge long time ago into my library and now I focus on improving on other things :) [1] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs [2] https://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/ [3]…
  9. …simply run Autoprefixer and consider the job done." The flex implementation is similarly broken. https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs http://caniuse.com/#search=await The only reason I mention clipboard (despite being less common) is…
  10. …[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid [2] https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer [3] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs [4] https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-try-...
  11. The flexbugs repository is also a good resource for browser specific flexbox issues: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
    comment by crazysaem · 2017-06-05 · in FlexBox Cheatsheet
  12. …https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ as the definitive flexbox resource, and https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs for browser specific issues
    comment by Bahamut · 2017-03-15 · in Flexbox Cheatsheet
  13. I think you happen to not have encountered the bugs described here: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs/blob/master/README.... 1. Minimum content sizing of flex items not honored (only fixed in Safari 10) 9. Some HTML elements can't…
    comment by paradite · 2017-01-07 · in Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Released
  14. …for more. I get bitten by #11 and/or #14 on almost every project, which work fine in IE/Edge. [1] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
    comment by venning · 2016-12-07 · in Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
  15. …surprising results with flexbox in modern IE and Firefox once you use it in more advanced ways. See https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs for an overview. Nevertheless I use flexbox almost everywhere. It's a great system to arrange…
  16. Check here for a pretty comprehensive listing of flexbox-related bugs. https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs I haven't come across anything in IE 10 or 11 that I haven't been able to work around pretty easily.
  17. …into different and not so obvious problems. My holy grail to work with flexbox today is this list: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs Two recent issues I ran into: There is a very nasty "bug" in the current Firefox browser. It's not…
    comment by madethemcry · 2016-07-06 · in How well do you know CSS display?
  18. …a rewrite of the CSS and maybe some extra classes. Also, this bug in Webkit is rather inconvenient: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs/issues/115 [1] For instance, if you create an Angular element directive.
  19. …and that there are many Known Issues with flexbox [2]. Some with solution, some without them. [1] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs [2] http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
  20. …in IE11 have been fixed in Edge[2]. I doubt that IE11 will get patched. [1] http://caniuse.com [2] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
  21. …is added between the `display: flex` and the flex item elements, the layout will be lost. [1] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs [2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=346275
  22. There's a list of bugs, test cases and workarounds here: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs One bug used to affect non-IE browsers but should now be fixed in all but Safari.
  23. …if you're just starting to use flexbox in a real-world webapp and want to catch issues early: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
    comment by namuol · 2015-09-08 · in Flexbox in 5 minutes
  24. …to add that if you're using flexbox today, you should also check out this other repo of mine: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them.
    comment by philipwalton · 2015-05-22 · in Solved by Flexbox
  25. …implementation bugs, meaning that it will take a few more years for the promise to become reality: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
    comment by anukulrm · 2015-04-20 · in How to Center in CSS
  26. …— FF triggers exponential slowdown when handling deeply nested flexbox layouts[0]... [0]: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs/issues/8
  27. phillipwalton keeps a list of flexbox implementation bugs here: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs Hopefully the day will soon come when I don’t have to refer to it.
    comment by robin_reala · 2015-03-03 · in Flexbox in 5 minutes
  28. …Flexbugs: a community curated list of cross-browser flexbox issues and their known workarounds. https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs The goals is if you’re building a website using flexbox, and something isn’t working as you’d expect,…