fix(flex): let a growing child keep the free space in a justify-between row - #175
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…en row A `justify-between` Row wrapped every child in `Flexible`, which is an approximation of the CSS `flex-shrink: 1` default and gives each child an EQUAL share of the free space. That share starves a sibling which asked for the space explicitly: in CSS a `flex: 1` child absorbs the leftover and the others stay at their content width (`flex: 0 1 auto` shrinks on overflow but never grows). Measured on a two-child page header at 402pt: the row handed 185pt to a `flex-1` title column and 185pt to an icon column that painted 24pt of it, so the title column, a loose flex child with no leftover to take, laid out at ZERO width while 140pt of the row sat blank beside a status badge. The wrap now only happens when no child claims a grow share. `overflow-hidden` keeps its wrap unconditionally, since that token asks for shrinking on purpose. `_claimsGrowShare` is narrower than `_selfWrapsInFlex` deliberately: the shrink-only tokens (`shrink`, `flex-shrink`, `flex-initial`) self-wrap to shrink and leave the free space alone, while `flex-auto` (CSS `flex: 1 1 auto`) grows and counts.
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change lets growing and full-width children retain remaining space in justify-between rows, but inactive responsive or state-prefixed grow tokens can still bypass shrink wrapping and cause overflow in affected layouts; this should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WDiv
participant GrowShareDetection
participant RowLayout
WDiv->>GrowShareDetection: Inspect row children
GrowShareDetection-->>WDiv: Return grow-share claim
WDiv->>RowLayout: Apply or skip Flexible wrapping
RowLayout-->>WDiv: Build the row layout
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In `@lib/src/widgets/w_div.dart`:
- Around line 676-679: Update _claimsGrowShare and its call from the
basisChildren check to accept BuildContext and child states, resolving each
child’s active style before detecting grow shares; retain direct Expanded and
Flexible detection. Ensure inactive hover or breakpoint variants do not set
hasGrowingChild, and add a regression test covering an inactive variant.
In `@test/flex/justify_between_flex_child_test.dart`:
- Line 17: Add a setUp() before the widget test definitions in main() that calls
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| final bool hasGrowingChild = basisChildren.any(_claimsGrowShare); | ||
| final needsFlexible = | ||
| (needsSpaceDistribution || hasOverflowClip) && !isMainAxisScrollable; | ||
| ((needsSpaceDistribution && !hasGrowingChild) || hasOverflowClip) && | ||
| !isMainAxisScrollable; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Resolve grow claims from the active child style.
_claimsGrowShare strips every variant prefix. Therefore, inactive tokens such as hover:flex-1 and md:flex-1 still set hasGrowingChild to true.
The parent then disables needsFlexible. The inactive child does not create its own Expanded, so the row loses its normal shrink wrapping and can overflow.
Pass BuildContext and the child states into _claimsGrowShare. Use the resolved active style to detect a grow share. Keep direct Expanded and Flexible detection. Add a regression test for an inactive state or breakpoint variant.
Proposed direction
- final bool hasGrowingChild = basisChildren.any(_claimsGrowShare);
+ final bool hasGrowingChild = basisChildren.any(
+ (child) => _claimsGrowShare(child, context),
+ );
- static bool _claimsGrowShare(Widget child) {
+ static bool _claimsGrowShare(Widget child, BuildContext context) {
if (child is Expanded || child is Flexible) return true;
final String? className = _extractChildClassName(child);
if (className == null || className.isEmpty) return false;
- // Prefix-agnostic token scan...
+ final styles = WindParser.parse(
+ className,
+ context,
+ states: _extractChildStates(child),
+ );
+ return styles.flex != null;
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In `@lib/src/widgets/w_div.dart` around lines 676 - 679, Update _claimsGrowShare
and its call from the basisChildren check to accept BuildContext and child
states, resolving each child’s active style before detecting grow shares; retain
direct Expanded and Flexible detection. Ensure inactive hover or breakpoint
variants do not set hasGrowingChild, and add a regression test covering an
inactive variant.
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Note Kodizm (AI-generated). May contain mistakes; verify before acting. The diagnosis is right - a grower should not share the row equally - but the fix throws away the shrink half of Major
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TestsThe new file covers the fixed case (grower keeps Checks I ran
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`doc/layout/flexbox.md` documents a bare `w-full` on a row child as filling the row "exactly like flex-1", and the Row composer implements that by wrapping the child in `Expanded`. The grow-share detection did not know about it, so the two diverged the moment the row also carried a `justify-*` token: measured in a 400pt `justify-between` row beside a 24pt icon, the `flex-1` child took 376 and the `w-full` child took 200. Also moves `_claimsGrowShare` below `_selfWrapsInFlex`. Inserted above it, the new method swallowed `_selfWrapsInFlex`'s doc comment, so the "makes it self-wrap in Expanded/Flexible" paragraph documented the wrong symbol and `_selfWrapsInFlex` was left with none. The token scan splits on `\s+` rather than a single space, matching `_hasBareFullWidth`, because this repo's own className convention is a triple-quoted string with one concern per line.
`doc/widgets/w-div.md` claimed automatic `Flexible` wrapping for row children with no qualification, which is the behaviour this branch changes. `doc/layout/flexbox.md` and the skill's layout rules said nothing about what happens when a child grows, so the 50/50 split read as intended behaviour rather than the bug it was. Skill version 2.12.0: className layout semantics changed, so the distribution to fluttersdk/ai needs to carry it.
CodeRabbit caught a regression this branch introduced. `_claimsGrowShare` stripped every variant prefix, so an inactive `hover:flex-1` or `md:flex-1` set `hasGrowingChild` and disabled the shrink wrap for the WHOLE row, while the conditional child never created its own `Expanded`. Measured in a 100pt `justify-between` row: a text sibling laid out at 504 and Flutter reported "A RenderFlex overflowed by 424 pixels on the right". With the prefix scan gone it lays out at 80, which is the pre-branch behaviour. The reviewer proposed threading `BuildContext` plus the child's states in and resolving each child's active style. That is correct in every case but runs a parse per child inside the row composition path, and it is not needed to close the defect: a prefixed token is conditional, so the honest answer from a class string alone is "no claim". That is already the documented policy for `md:w-full` in `_hasBareFullWidth`, for the same reason. The asymmetry with `_selfWrapsInFlex`, which stays prefix-agnostic, is deliberate and now documented: there a false positive only skips a wrap, while a false negative double-wraps and throws ParentDataWidget. Here the answer governs every sibling. The residual cost is that a prefixed grow token keeps the old equal-share split while its variant IS active, which is pre-existing behaviour rather than a new regression. Also adds the `WindParser.clearCache()` setUp the second review comment asked for, which `.claude/rules/tests.md` requires of any test pumping className-styled widgets.
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Both review comments handled, and the first one was a real regression this branch introduced. Thanks. 1. Inactive prefixed grow token (Major) — confirmed and fixedReproduced before fixing. A 100pt
I did not take the proposed direction of threading The asymmetry with Residual cost, documented in 2. Parser cache in setUp (Minor) — fixed
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Minor release, not a patch. The Return-key default on a single-line `WInput` moved from `TextInputAction.next` to `.done` (#177), which changes behaviour in every consumer that never passed `textInputAction`. Consumers are pinned with `^1.3.0`, so a patch would have landed that on everyone at the next `pub upgrade` with the version number saying nothing had changed. A minor still reaches them automatically, so the two layout fixes are not withheld, but the number now says to read the notes. Ships with those two fixes: a `justify-between` row no longer splits its width between a child that asked to grow and siblings that did not (#175), and `WKeyboardActions` hosts its toolbar in the root overlay so it lands on the keyboard rather than hundreds of points below the viewport (#176). Plus the CI fix that had every open PR red on a dirty checkout (#178) and the codeql-action bump (#174). Bump pubspec.yaml 1.3.0 -> 1.4.0 and promote ## [Unreleased] to ## [1.4.0] - 2026-08-21 in CHANGELOG.md, with the [1.4.0] link reference and the [Unreleased] compare link redirected to 1.4.0...HEAD. Sync example/pubspec.yaml, the dartdoc_options.yaml source-link tag, and the llms.txt version string. Move the wind-ui skill to the 1.4 line: the nine reference H1s plus the SKILL.md description and version marker.
…nores (#97) Two findings from driving the header on an iPhone. The inline layout collapsed its title. With a leading control, a long title and a titleSuffix, the title measured ZERO width at 402pt while 140pt of the row sat blank after the status badge. The cause was in wind, not here: a `justify-between` Row wrapped every child in `Flexible`, so the icon-sized actions column reserved an equal 185pt share it never painted and the `flex-1` title row had nothing left to take (fluttersdk/wind#175). This adds the regression test at the component level, asserted on the two wrappers rather than on the text: a widget test lays text out in a placeholder font roughly one em per glyph, so comparing a title against a badge measures the harness. `-ml-1` on the back control never did anything. wind supports a negative value only in the position family, and it reports `unknown className '-ml-1' was ignored` for a margin. Removed from the default, the derived theme, and the docblock rather than left in as a class that reads like it is doing work.
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justify-betweenRow wrapped every child inFlexible, handing each an equal share of the free space. A child that claims a grow share (flex-1,grow,flex-auto, or a rawExpanded/Flexible) now keeps the leftover, and its siblings stay at their content width._claimsGrowShareis deliberately narrower than_selfWrapsInFlex:shrink,flex-shrinkandflex-initial(CSSflex: 0 1 auto) self-wrap in order to SHRINK and never take a share, whileflex-auto(CSSflex: 1 1 auto) does grow and counts.overflow-hiddenkeeps its unconditional wrap, since that token asks for shrinking on purpose.Why
CSS
justify-content: space-betweendoes not make items flexible: the free space is distributed BETWEEN them, and aflex: 1child absorbs it while the others keep their content size.Measured on a two-child page header at 402pt: the row gave 185pt to a
flex-1title column and 185pt to an icon column that painted 24pt of it. The title column, a loose flex child with no leftover to take, laid out at ZERO width while 140pt of the row sat blank.Testing
test/flex/justify_between_flex_child_test.dart: aflex-1child in a 400ptjustify-betweenrow measures400 - 24next to a 24pt sibling, and a row where nobody claims flex still shrinks without throwing. Verified non-vacuous by forcing the detection tofalse(376 becomes 200).Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Documentation
justify-*behavior, including supported growth options.Tests
justify-betweenlayouts with growing, fixed-width, and shrinking children.Review pass (2026-08-21)
Three things the review added on top of the original commit.
1. A bare
w-fullrow child now counts as a grow claim.doc/layout/flexbox.mddocuments it as filling the row "exactly likeflex-1", and the Row composer implements that by wrapping it inExpanded, but_claimsGrowSharedid not know about it. So the fix would have made the two diverge exactly where they are documented to agree. Probed in a 400ptjustify-betweenrow beside a 24pt icon: theflex-1child measured 376, thew-fullchild measured 200. Now both measure 376, pinned by a new test case.2.
_claimsGrowSharewas swallowing_selfWrapsInFlex's doc comment. Inserted directly above it, the new method took over the "makes it self-wrap inExpanded/Flexible" paragraph and left_selfWrapsInFlexwith no documentation at all._claimsGrowSharemoved below_hasBareFullWidth, which is also where it reads best now that it calls it.3. The post-change sync was missing. The original commit touched
lib/andtest/only, so four of the five surfacesCLAUDE.mdrequires were unsynced, and one of them actively contradicted the new behaviour:doc/widgets/w-div.mdpromised "automaticFlexiblewrapping for children in rows" flat out. Added: the qualification indoc/widgets/w-div.md, a behaviour note under Justify Content indoc/layout/flexbox.md, rule 4 inskills/wind-ui/references/layouts.md, a section 6 table row inSKILL.md(skill 2.12.0), and the### Fixedentry inCHANGELOG.md.README.mdneeds nothing: no roster change. No new example page: the change adds no token.Gates
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dart format --set-exit-if-changed: 382 files, 0 changed.dart analyze lib/ test/ example/lib/: No issues found../tool/coverage.sh 90: 1695 passed, 1 skipped, coverage 94.8%.python3 tool/check-docs.py: 0 issues across 72 doc pages.Lint & Teststays red here until #178 lands onmaster:flutter pub getrewritesanalysis_options.yamlmid-run anddart pub publish --dry-runthen fails on a dirty checkout. Nothing on this branch causes it.Left alone deliberately
shrink/flex-shrink/flex-initialstill self-wrap in a looseFlexible, and Flutter gives a looseFlexiblea share of the free space even though the child renders at its intrinsic size. So ajustify-betweenrow holdingflex-1next to an explicitshrinkstill splits 50/50. That is the author opting into shrinking on that child, it is what the code comment already describes as deliberate, and no measured case asked for it.