[css-flexbox] flex-shrink: hide

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5/5
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25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Stale
Tech stack
css
Domain
frontend

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Start with the issue's CSS Flexbox example and the question of how flex-shrink should interact with minimum-size constraints. Done means the Working Group has agreed on the behavior and the issue has been resolved in the relevant specification text.

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Description

css-flexbox-2 css-overflow-4

Rather than shrinking the element, CSS would just hide it.

For example a <button> normally containing a label and a icon, might hide the label if the <button> gets too small.

<button>
    <img src="icon.png" alt="">
    <span>Label</span>
</button>

button { display: flex; flex-direction: row; }
button > img { flex: 0 0 auto; }
button > span { flex: 1 hide auto; }

I'm not sure how this should work and must be discussed if you are interested. Maybe it should be another property that would intervene only after no further shrinking is possible (i.e. min-width/min-height constraint).

Thank you.

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