There are a couple of things that went into this:
- We now calculate the intrinsic width/height and aspect ratio of <svg>
elements based on the spec algorithm instead of our previous ad-hoc
guesswork solution.
- Replaced elements with automatic size and intrinsic aspect ratio but
no intrinsic dimensions are now sized with the stretch-fit width
formula.
- We take care to assign both used width and used height to <svg>
elements before running their SVG formatting contexts. This ensures
that the inside SVG content is laid out with knowledge of its
viewport geometry.
- We avoid infinite recursion in tentative_height_for_replaced_element()
by using the already-calculated used width instead of calling the
function that calculates the used width (since that may call us right
back again).
This patch does three things:
- Factors out the code that determines whether a box will create a new
formatting context for its children (and which type of context)
- Uses that code to mark all formatting context roots in layout tree
dumps. This makes it much easier to follow along with layout since
you can now see exactly where control is transferred to a new
formatting context.
- Rebaselines all existing layout tests, since the output format has
changed slightly.
Instead of special-casing FlexFormattingContext in the intrinsic sizing
layout helpers, add FormattingContext::automatic_content_width() and let
each context subclass decide what that means.
No behavior change here, just moving this responsibility.
Grid containers were incorrectly represented as BlockContainer before.
Furthermore, GridFormattingContext had a bogus inheritance relationship
with BlockFormattingContext.
This patch brings our architecture closer to spec by making grid
containers be plain boxes and making GFC not inherit from BFC.
When laying out abspos boxes, we compute the height twice: before and
after the inside of the box has been laid out.
The first pass allows percentage vertical values inside the box to be
resolved against the box's height. The second pass resolves the final
used value for the height of the box itself.
In cases where the box height depends on the results of inside layout,
we were incorrectly setting the box to having a definite zero height.
This led to incorrect results when sizing an abspos flex container,
since the FFC sizes containers (in row layouts) based on whether the
container has a definite height.
To avoid this problem, this patch adds an enum so we can differentiate
between the two abspos height computation passes. If the first pass
discovers a dependency on the inside layout, we simply bail out of
computing the height, leaving it as indefinite. This allows the FFC
to size its container correctly, and the correct height gets set by
the second pass.
Previously y position of boxes in block formatting context
was calculated by looking at y position of previous in-flow
sibling and adding collapsed margin of "collapse through"
boxes lying between box currently being laid out and it's
previous in-flow sibling.
Here introduced BlockMarginState structure that maintains
array of currently collapsible margins hence we no longer
need to look at previous sibling to calculate y position
of a box.
We were using the available space in place of the stretch-fit size.
This was an oversight, and this patch fixes that. It's very possible
that this will uncover broken behavior elsewhere.
After speaking with fantasai at CSSWG about this, it turns out I had
misunderstood intrinsic heights. I originally believed all intrinsic
sizes had to be computed with no influence from the surrounding context.
As it turns out, intrinsic heights *are* influenced by the available
width, since it's needed to determine where lines break.
The APIs for calculating min-content and max-content heights now take
the available width as inputs. This instantly improves layout in many
cases where we'd previously make things way too wide.
When an absolutely positioned box has auto insets on both sides of an
axis, it's placed according to the "static position rectangle". This is,
roughly, the rectangle a box would occupy if it were position:static
instead of position:absolute or position:fixed.
This patch implements a rough, but still significantly better,
estimation of such static positions. It gets pretty hairy in the case
where an abspos box has a parent whose children are inline.
This is a big and messy change, and here's the gist:
- AvaliableSpace is now 2x AvailableSize (width and height)
- Layout algorithms are redesigned around the idea of available space
- When doing layout across nested formatting contexts, the parent
context tells the child context how much space is available for the
child's root box in both axes.
- "Available space" replaces "containing block width" in most places.
- The width and height in a box's UsedValues are considered to be
definite after they're assigned to. Marking something as having
definite size is no longer a separate step,
This probably introduces various regressions, but the big win here is
that our layout system now works with available space, just like the
specs are written. Fixing issues will be much easier going forward,
since you don't need to do nearly as much conversion from "spec logic"
to "LibWeb logic" as you previously did.
Instead of formatting contexts flailing around to figure out from the
"inside" how much space is available on the "outside", we should
provide the amount of available space in both axes as an input to run().
This basically means that when something creates a nested formatting
context, the parent context is responsible for telling the nested context
how much space is available for layout. This information is provided
immediately when invoking run().
Note that this commit doesn't pass accurate values in all cases yet.
This first step just makes it build, and passes available values in some
cases where getting them was trivial.
This patch changes the *computed* representation of the following CSS
properties to use CSS::Size:
- width, min-width, max-width
- height, min-height, max-height
A few things had to change in order for things to keep working,
but I tried to keep the diff to a minimum.
The main trouble was that `min-width` and `max-width` can't actually be
`auto`, but they *can* be `none`. We previously treated `auto` as a
valid value (and it behaved mostly like `none`).
This function should return the automatic height of the formatting
context's root box.
Until now, we've been relying on some magical handshakes between parent
and child context, when negotiating the height of child context root
boxes. This is a step towards something more reasonable.
Factor out the code that computes the vertical position of a Box with
respect to its siblings so that it can be used when computing the
absolutely positioned divs as well.
We were prematurely resolving the computed size values, which meant
that `auto` values were swallowed before we could resolve them via
the intrinsic aspect ratio (if present)
This patch adds a separate entry point for this kind of layout.
We override it in BFC to set up initial width/height values for the
BFC root block.
Resulting dimensions are assigned as content_width and content_height
at the end of intrinsic sizing, for each axis, if it's either "auto"
or there's a min-content or max-content constraint in effect.
Previously, we had three layout modes:
- Normal:
- Everything uses the computed values from CSS.
- MinContent:
- Containing blocks act as if they have 0 width.
- All line breaking opportunities are taken.
- MaxContent:
- Containing blocks act as if they have infinite width.
- Only forced line breaks are accepted.
The above was based on a set of misunderstandings of CSS sizing.
A major problem with the above was that *all* containing blocks
behaved differently during intrinsic size layout, not just the
relevant one.
With this patch there are only two layout modes:
- Normal:
- Everything uses the computed values from CSS.
- IntrinsicSizeDetermination:
- One or more boxes have size constraints applied.
There are two size constraints per layout box, set here:
- FormattingState::NodeState::width_constraint
- FormattingState::NodeState::height_constraint
They are of type SizeConstraint and can be one of None, MinContent,
or MaxContent. The default is None.
When performing an IntrinsicSizeDetermination layout, we now assign
a size constraint to the box we're trying to determine the intrinsic
size of, which is then honored by using two new helpers to query
the dimensions of containing blocks:
- FormattingContext::containing_block_width_for(Box)
- FormattingContext::containing_block_height_for(Box)
If there's a relevant constraint in effect on the Box, the size of
its containing block is adjusted accordingly.
This is essentially an implementation of the "available space"
constraints from CSS-SIZING-3. I'm sure some things will break from
this, and we'll have to deal with that separately.
Spec: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-3/#available
Before, querying any of the four intrinsic sizes would cause us to
calculate all of them (the four being min-content width/height, and
max-content width/height).
Now, the helper functions only calculate the specific intrinsic size
requested. It's then cached at the root formatting context level,
so that it's never calculated twice within the same layout pass.
Change "compute" to "calculate" to make clearer that this is unrelated
to the CSS "computed height" concept.
Change "intrinsic" to "auto" to make clearer that this is not the same
as the intrinsic min-content and max-content sizing calculations.
For computing height in FormattingContext::calculate_intrinsic_sizes
we were calling into BlockFormattingContext::compute_theoretical_height
which will check if the CSS height property was defined and calculate
the height based on that instead of calculating the intrinsic height
This patch adds a new function calculate_intrinsic_height, which will
call into compute_auto_height_for_block_level_element for a block
element, or into compute_height_for_replaced_element for a replaced
element.
The previous implementation used relative X offsets for both left and
right-side floats. This made right-side floats super awkward, since we
could only determine their X position once the width of the BFC root was
known, and for BFC roots with automatic width, this was not even working
at all most of the time.
This patch changes the way we deal with floats so that BFC keeps track
of the offset-from-edge for each float. The offset is the distance from
the BFC root edge (left or right, depending on float direction) to the
"innermost" margin edge of the floating box.
Floating box are now laid out in two passes: while going through the
normal flow layout, we put floats in their *static* position (i.e the
position they would have occupied if they weren't floating) and then
update the Y position value to the final one.
The second pass occurs later on, when the BFC root has had its width
assigned by the parent context. Once we know the root width, we can
set the X position value of floating boxes. (Because the X position of
right-side floats is relative to the right edge of the BFC root.)
This is preparation for allowing blocks with their own internal BFC to
flow around floating boxes in the parent BFC.
Note that IFC still has the available_space_for_line() API, which
returns space available within the IFC's own containing block, while the
BFC available_space_for_line() returns space available within its root.
FormattingContext can now calculate the intrinsic sizes (min-content and
max-content in both axes) for a given Layout::Box.
This is a rather expensive operation, as it necessitates performing two
throwaway layouts of the subtree rooted at the box. Fortunately, we can
cache the results of these calculations, as intrinsic sizes don't change
based on other context around the box. They are intrinsic after all. :^)
I was wrong in 56df05ae44, there are
situations where floating children should not affect the auto height of
their parent.
It turns out we were using the "height:auto for BFC roots" algorithm for
all height:auto blocks. This patch fixes that by splitting it into two
separate functions, and implementing most of the two different variants.
Note that we don't support vertical margin collapsing here yet.
Thanks to Tim for noticing the error! :^)
This patch adds a map of Layout::Node to FormattingState::NodeState.
Instead of updating layout nodes incrementally as layout progresses
through the formatting contexts, all updates are now written to the
corresponding NodeState instead.
At the end of layout, FormattingState::commit() is called, which
transfers all the values from the NodeState objects to the Node.
This will soon allow us to perform completely non-destructive layouts
which don't affect the tree.
Note that there are many imperfections here, and still many places
where we assign to the NodeState, but later read directly from the Node
instead. I'm just committing at this stage to make subsequent diffs
easier to understand.
The purpose of this new object will be to keep track of various states
during an ongoing layout.
Until now, we've been updating layout tree nodes as we go during layout,
which adds an invisible layer of implicit serialization to the whole
layout system.
My idea with FormattingState is that running layout will produce a
result entirely contained within the FormattingState object. At the end
of layout, it can then be applied to the layout tree, or simply queried
for some metrics we were trying to determine.
When doing subtree layouts to determine intrinsic sizes, we will
eventually be able to clone the current FormattingState, and run the
subtree layout in isolation, opening up opportunities for parallelism.
This first patch doesn't go very far though, it merely adds the object
as a skeleton class, and makes sure the root BFC has one. :^)
Until now, some formatting contexts (BFC in particular) have been
assigning size to the root box. This is really the responsibility of the
parent formatting context, so let's stop doing it.
To keep position:absolute working, parent formatting contexts now notify
child contexts when the child's root box has been sized. (Note that the
important thing here is for the child root to have its final used height
before it's able to place bottom-relative boxes.)
This breaks flexbox layout in some ways, but we'll have to address those
by improving the spec compliance of FFC.)
This patch breaks FormattingContext::layout_inside() into two functions,
one that creates an independent formatting context (if needed), and
another that calls the former and then performs the inside layout within
the appropriate context.
The main goal here was to make layout_inside() return the independent
formatting context if one was created. This will allow us to defer
certain operations in child contexts until the parent context has
finished formatting the child root box.
