When flexbox items wrap in column mode, container does not grow its width

Question

I am working on a nested flexbox layout which should work as follows:

The outermost level (ul#main) is a horizontal list that must expand to the right w

Answer 1

It is unfortunate that so many major browsers suffer from this bug after many years. Consider a Javascript workaround. Whenever the browser window resizes, or content is added to the element, execute this code to get it to resize to the proper width. You can define a directive in your framework to do it for you.

    element.style.flexBasis = "auto";
    element.style.flexBasis = `${element.scrollWidth}px`;