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[css-flexbox] Should clarify if aspect ratio calculations use border-box or content-box #5246
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E.g. here:
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox/#min-size-auto
The transferred size uses the aspect ratio, but it's not clear whether it should use the content box or border box for the calculation.
Also, here:
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox/#algo-main-item
the calculation says explicitly that the inner cross size is used, which contradicts https://drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-4/#valdef-aspect-ratio-ratio which says that box-sizing determines whether to use content-box or border-box
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cbiesinger commentedon Jun 19, 2020
(however, the inner is probably correct for replaced elements with an intrinsic aspect ratio, which probably (?) shouldn't use box-sizing)
cc @fantasai
[css-flexbox-1] Remove explicit mention of 'inner' size from aspect-r…
fantasai commentedon Aug 4, 2020
@cbiesinger Checked in edits to remove the explicit mention of "inner". Do you think this is acceptable to close now?
cbiesinger commentedon Aug 27, 2020
Thanks, that helps. I think it would be nice if there was a link to someplace that explicitly defines which box-sizing to use though.
fantasai commentedon Oct 6, 2020
@cbiesinger I think at some point when the aspect ratio spec and related terminology is more stable, we'll end up adding a lot of cross-links across all our layout specs, but at this point if I add a note pointing to sizing-4 here, I have to add one everywhere else in the spec that mentions “aspect ratio” and I think that's too many notes... If you're implementing
aspect-ratio, the spec foraspect-ratiois pretty explicit about which box to use.