Width ignored on flexbox items

Question

http://jsfiddle.net/XW9Se/

I\'ve set width: 200px; on the left

but if I view it with the browser inspector tool it appears that the

Answer 1

Solved this with a flex not respecting min-width when there was not enough content to fill that width.

Added the CSS rule box-sizing: initial; on the same flex element that had the non-working min-width declaration.