flexbox | flex item being pushed out of containing div (off screen) - css

Question

I'm using the flexbox layout to style a list of past tasks. The task description and the time are always going to be of very variable lengths.
Everything looks great until a task description is entered which is long enough to wrap onto a second line and then the 'time' item (on the far right of the screen) is pushed slightly to the right - off the screen - hiding some of the content.
You can see the short description displays perfectly below, but the long one pushes what should be '00:08' off the screen AND the task description moves to the left as well!!
Here's a fiddle for the code (which is below as per Stackoverflow's rules).
If you resize the pane containing the result the '00:08' doesn't fall off the page but it does clearly move too far to the right.
The above screenshot is in Chrome or Safari (the two browsers I was using) when shrinking the width of the window until the description wraps onto a second line.
I would like everything to display as per the first (short description) line if possible! And also to understand why this is behaving as it currently is.
P.S. I have tried using floats and also using a table display layout but both of these techniques caused quite a few bugs, mostly because of the variable length content (so please don't suggest these as alternatives :)).
ul {
margin:0;
padding: 0;
}
#tasklist{
width: 100%;
}
.task-one-line{
display: flex;
flex-direction:row;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
justify-content: space-between;
align-item: baseline; /*flex-end*/
display: -webkit-flex;
-webkit-flex-direction:row;
-webkit-flex-wrap: nowrap;
-webkit-justify-content: space-between;
-webkit-align-item: baseline;
border-bottom: 1px solid #d3d3d3;
width: 100%;
}
.task-one-line i{
width:1.5em;
padding: 0.5em 0.3em 0.5em 0.3em;
/*border: 1px solid green;*/
}
span.task-desc{
flex-grow: 5;
-webkit-flex-grow: 5;
text-align:left;
padding: 0.3em 0.4em 0.3em 0.4em;
/*border: 1px solid red;*/
}
span.task-time{
flex-grow: 1;
-webkit-flex-grow: 1;
flex-basis:4em;
-webkit-flex-basis:4em;
text-align:right;
padding: 0.3em 0.5em 0.3em 0.5em;
/*border: 1px solid blue ;*/
}
<ul id="tasklist">
<li class="task-one-line">
<i class="fa fa-check-circle-o"></i>
<span class="task-desc">And a short one</span>
<span class="task-time">00:01</span>
</li>
<li class="task-one-line">
<i class="fa fa-check-circle-o"></i>
<span class="task-desc">Here's a super long long long long long long description that might wrap onto another line</span>
<span class="task-time">00:08</span>
</li>
</ul>

Answer 1

I had a similar issue, I created a pen with the fix:
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/vRBMMm
.flex {
display: flex;
padding: 8px;
border: 1px solid;
}
.a {
margin-right: 16px;
}
.b {
flex: 1;
background: #ffbaba;
min-width: 0;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
overflow: hidden;
}
.c {
flex-shrink: 0;
margin-left: 16px;
}
<div class="flex">
<div class="a">1st div</div>
<div class="b">HELLO2HELLO2 HELLO2HELLO2 2222 HELLO2HELLO 22222</div>
<div class="c">3rd div</div>
</div>

Answer 2

Really, you only want the text content to have a flexible width (the time and the icon should have a fixed width and not shrink). This could be pretty easily accomplished with tables, absolute positioning, or flexbox.
Here's the flexbox that you need to know:
.task-time: flex: 1 0 4em
.task-one-line i.fa { flex: 0 0 auto; }
ul {
margin:0;
padding: 0;
}
#tasklist{
width: 100%;
}
.task-one-line i.fa { flex: 0 0 auto; }
.task-one-line{
display: flex;
flex-direction:row;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
justify-content: space-between;
align-item: baseline; /*flex-end*/
display: -webkit-flex;
-webkit-flex-direction:row;
-webkit-flex-wrap: nowrap;
-webkit-justify-content: space-between;
-webkit-align-item: baseline;
border-bottom: 1px solid #d3d3d3;
width: 100%;
}
.task-one-line i{
width:1.5em;
padding: 0.5em 0.3em 0.5em 0.3em;
/*border: 1px solid green;*/
}
span.task-desc{
flex-grow: 5;
-webkit-flex-grow: 5;
text-align:left;
padding: 0.3em 0.4em 0.3em 0.4em;
/*border: 1px solid red;*/
}
span.task-time{
flex: 1 0 4em;
-webkit-flex: 1 0 4em;
text-align:right;
padding: 0.3em 0.5em 0.3em 0.5em;
/*border: 1px solid blue ;*/
}
<ul id="tasklist">
<li class="task-one-line">
<i class="fa fa-check-circle-o"></i>
<span class="task-desc">And a short one</span>
<span class="task-time">00:01</span>
</li>
<li class="task-one-line">
<i class="fa fa-check-circle-o"></i>
<span class="task-desc">Here's a super long long long long long long description that might wrap onto another line long long long long long long description that might wrap onto another line</span>
<span class="task-time">00:08</span>
</li>
</ul>

Answer 3

My general rule for flex is flex the containers you want to flex and don't flex the ones you do not. I would do the following to the time container.
span.task-time {flex: none;}