Container `min-height` produces incorrect size when `flex-wrap` is enabled

[rasjonell]

Container `min-height` produces incorrect size when `flex-wrap` is enabled

[NickGerleman]

can I work on this?

Contributions are welcome 🙂. Are you familiar with Yoga's system for test fixtures.

[goolAdapter]

Hello, I meet this exactly issue in my work.and I’m trying to fix it.

[cattenblue]

I encountered the same issue and had a doubt about why clamping to the min/max size specified on the container is needed for each line. So, I tried removing it for each line, and I add three test. Here is my submission #1493

[NextThread]

can I work on this?

[NextThread]

can I work on this?

Contributions are welcome 🙂. Are you familiar with Yoga's system for test fixtures.

Yeah,
Okay thanks

[NextThread]

@rasjonell hey can you try this?

const childHeightSum = node1.getComputedHeight() + node2.getComputedHeight();
const minHeight = container.getStyle().minHeight;

if (childHeightSum < minHeight) {
  container.setHeight(minHeight);
} else {
  container.setHeight(childHeightSum);
}

const height = container.getComputedHeight();

[rasjonell]

@rasjonell hey can you try this?

const childHeightSum = node1.getComputedHeight() + node2.getComputedHeight();
const minHeight = container.getStyle().minHeight;

if (childHeightSum < minHeight) {
  container.setHeight(minHeight);
} else {
  container.setHeight(childHeightSum);
}

const height = container.getComputedHeight();

This won't work. First I can't just rely on the sum of computed heights, as not all elements are necessarily wrapped, for example I may have a case like this:

┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│                                 │ Each box has size: 100 x 300
│                                 │ The sum of children heights would be: 1200
│  ┌──────┐  ┌──────┐  ┌──────┐   │ If it happens to be greater than the container's minHeight,
│  │      │  │      │  │      │   │ The final height would be 1200, instead 600
│  │   1  │  │   2  │  │   3  │   │
│  │      │  │      │  │      │   │
│  └──────┘  └──────┘  └──────┘   │
│                                 │
│                                 │
│  ┌──────┐                       │
│  │      │                       │
│  │  4   │                       │
│  │      │                       │
│  └──────┘                       │
│                                 │
│                                 │
└─────────────────────────────────┘

If I collect the sum of heights it won't represent the height of all the rows. I would have to also make some calculations to understand how many rows are there and then calculate the sum, which can be really expensive, considering every layout change would make the same calculation twice(once on yoga's side, once on my own).

Another potential issue with this approach is that I would lose my minHeigt option afterwards as we are setting container.setHeight()

[NextThread]

can we follow the below approach?

• We'll iterate through the child nodes and determine if adding each child to the current row would exceed the
  minHeight property of the container.
• If the addition of a child to the current row would exceed minHeight, we start a new row.
• We keep track of the total height by summing up the heights of each row.
• After iterating through all child nodes, we calculate the final height of the container by considering the total height and
  the minHeight property.
• We then set the container's height to the calculated final height.

const childNodes = container.getChildNodes();
const childNodeCount = childNodes.length;

let currentRowHeight = 0;
let totalHeight = 0;
let numRows = 1;

for (let i = 0; i < childNodeCount; i++) {
  const childNode = childNodes[i];
  const childHeight = childNode.getComputedHeight();
  
  if (currentRowHeight + childHeight <= minHeight) {
    currentRowHeight += childHeight;
  } else {
    totalHeight += currentRowHeight;
    currentRowHeight = childHeight;
    numRows++;
  }
}

totalHeight += currentRowHeight;

const finalHeight = Math.max(minHeight, totalHeight);
container.setHeight(finalHeight);

[rasjonell]

Yes, this workaround will fix it, however it's really expensive, considering my client would need to recalculate stuff that's already calculated on Yoga's side. Also I would lose the minHeight config as we are setting the height property.

[NickGerleman]

@NextThread have you looked at fixing this inside of Yoga, instead of recommending workarounds?

[NextThread]

@NextThread have you looked at fixing this inside of Yoga, instead of recommending workarounds?

No, I'm a beginner so, before that I was trying to share my approach,

should I try?