Approved Allow display:flex in html

[Felucia]

Quite self-explanatory: Unless there's a good reason not to, I'd like display:flex and associated CSS properties (justify-content, flex-direction, ...) to be usable in htmlboxes, roomintros, staffintros, and other html applications so I can apply some degree of modern web design standards to my work

 

[DaWoblefet]

As an extension, it'd be nice in general if we could include style tags so we didn't have to hardcode CSS inline, but perhaps there's worries about it conflicting with site CSS. I would very much support this; I think the reason it's not is because flexboxes aren't compatible with older versions of Internet Explorer or something. If we had analytics, I would be curious if maintaining that support is worthwhile.

Edit: in fact, I would argue that better, modern support for mobile CSS is significantly more valuable than any old IE support, as surely the stats indicate more mobile users than IE desktop users.

 

[Zarel]

It seems like the problem is that the Caja CSS validator hasn't been updated in a long time.

It's not like the rest of PS development uses modern CSS. Just be glad you don't have to write HTML emails; iirc you still have to make those compatible with old Outlook using Word's HTML engine, so you're not allowed to use a box model.

But if you really want this to be changed, you need to find a newer JS-compatible CSS validator (or I guess fork Caja). Good luck!