On Wednesday 2016-12-21 18:56 +0100, Mats Palmgren wrote:
> Summary:
> A display:flow-root element generates a block container box, and lays out
> its contents using flow layout. It always establishes a new block
> formatting context for its contents (per CSS2).
> This is intended to make "clearfix" hacks unnecessary.
> 
> The implementation is fairly trivial: it adds a new keyword to
> the 'display' property and ties that to existing code for
> "NS_NewBlockFormattingContext".
> 
> Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322191
> 
> Link to standard:
> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#valdef-display-flow-root
> 
> Platform coverage: all platforms
> 
> Estimated or target release: Fx53
> 
> Preference behind which this will be implemented:
> layout.css.display-flow-root.enabled
> 
> DevTools bug: no need
> 
> Do other browser engines implement this?
> Not that I am aware of, bugs have been filed for WebKit/Blink:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165603
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=672508
> 
> Tests: added as part of the implementation
> 
> Security & Privacy Concerns: none

Sounds good to me, except that I think it's worth explicitly raising
on www-style that we're planning to ship this, since the spec for it
isn't yet in (or near) CR.  (The bug says the editors believe the
feature is stable enough to ship, but that's worth raising more
widely before we ship it.)

-David

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