Flex item with `max-width` and `max-height` causes the text next it to break unnecessarily in Chrome

Question

In the snippet below, the tab__icon has a max-width and a max-height, but apparently its causes the text inside of the tab__label next to it to break, while there's actually plenty of space.

I know it's the presence of both max-width and max-height that's causing this problem, because as soon as you change either max-width to width or max-height to height, the text no longer breaks, and everything works as expected.

What am I doing wrong here?

I also tried adding flex-shrink: 0; to tab__label but that would cause the text to overflow the parent, which is not what I want.

.tab-list {
  display: flex;
  width: 100%;
  border: 2px solid red;
  justify-content: space-around;
}

.tab-list__item {
  flex-shrink: 0;
}

.tab {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  background-color: gray;
}

.tab__icon {
  max-width: 12px;
  max-height: 12px;
  flex-shrink: 0;
  margin-right: 5px;
}


  
    
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Update: As @TemaniAfif pointed out in the comments, this problem only exists in Chrome, Firefox seems to work as expected.

user_8620333 · Answer

Since you are fixing the width to a max value, you can set any value for width bigger than that. At least, it should make this working on Chrome since it's already fine on Firefox

.tab-list {
  display: flex;
  width: 100%;
  border: 2px solid red;
  justify-content: space-around;
}

.tab-list__item {
  flex-shrink: 0;
}

.tab {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  background-color: gray;
}

.tab__icon {
  max-width: 12px;
  max-height: 12px;
  flex-shrink: 0;
  margin-right: 5px;
  width:100px;
}


  
    
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user_15748278 · Answer

Mine is working just fine.

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  outline: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  height: 100vh;
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
}

.container {
  width: 90%;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  border: 2px solid red;
  justify-content: space-around;
}

.container .tab {
  display: flex;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  align-items: center;
  background-color: #eee;
}


  
    
      
    
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Flex item with `max-width` and `max-height` causes the text next it to break unnecessarily in Chrome

2 Answers

Mine is working just fine.