Read a child's answer in the asker's frame, and drop the root move entry

A widget reports a fraction of the box it was given. Span added that
fraction straight into a cursor that counts fractions of the row, and Pad
summed its padding onto it, both right only while the offer had the
parent's whole extent -- which a span's does not after a relative child.
DrawResult::size and known_len now compose the answer through the offer's
length, so a container reads lengths of its own box.

That exposed placed_box scaling a fractional answer against a box the
parent had already chosen from it, halving a nested span twice. The
near-edge alignment override becomes per-axis `decided` flags: a box the
parent chose from the answer is the answer, and is not placed again.
Span decides the row axis; Scroll and Stack's sizing child decide both.
Alignment is always the widget's own property now.

The window is no longer a move entry. Chains bottom out in MoveIdx::NONE
and the window is applied where a fraction becomes pixels, in to_px on the
CPU and by the uniform in the shader, which now snaps the summed coordinate
since a floor does not distribute over a sum. A resize rewrites no entry.

Verified: view, minimal, random, tabs and text render byte-identical at
1920x1200 against 5f16617, a live resize to 1280x800 is identical to a
cold render, and the 100-seed oracle, all fifteen shrinker cases at 400
seeds of depth 5, and 1000 seeds of depth 6 pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

core/src/orientation/align.rs

@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ pub struct RegionAlign {
 }
 
 impl RegionAlign {
-    /// Both axes at the near edge. What a container passes as an override for
-    /// a child it is going to position itself.
+    /// Both axes at the near edge: the start of a box in its own orientation.
     pub const NEAR: Self = Self {
         x: AxisAlign::NEG,
         y: AxisAlign::NEG,

core/src/orientation/len.rs

@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ impl Size {
             Axis::Y => self.y,
         }
     }
+
+    pub fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut LayoutLen {
+        match axis {
+            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
+            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 impl LayoutLen {
@@ -151,6 +158,18 @@ impl LayoutLen {
         Len::from_parts(self.rel.add(share), self.px)
     }
 
+    /// This length, given as a part of a box `len` long, as a part of the
+    /// box `len` is itself a part of. The share is untouched: it is a claim
+    /// on whoever divides the room, not a fraction of anything.
+    pub const fn within_len(self, len: Len) -> Self {
+        let part = Len::from_parts(self.rel, self.px).within_len(len);
+        Self {
+            px: part.px,
+            rel: part.rel,
+            leftover: self.leftover,
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn px(px: impl UiNum) -> Self {
         Self {
             px: Px::from_num(px),

core/src/orientation/pos.rs

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ impl Len {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn within_len(&self, len: Len) -> Self {
+    pub const fn within_len(&self, len: Len) -> Self {
         self.within(&UiSpan {
             start: Len::ZERO,
             end: len,

core/src/render/shader/prelude.wgsl

@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ struct MoveOffset {
 // belongs to the pixel above it. Flooring the product instead drops a pixel
 // wherever a fraction divides a window exactly: a fifth of 1920 comes out of
 // `REL_STEP` as 383.99998, and five tabs each lose their last column.
+//
+// Taken over the whole coordinate, fraction and pixels summed, since a floor
+// does not distribute over a sum: floored apart, a half of one and a half of
+// the other lose the pixel the two together make.
 fn snap_floor(v: vec2<f32>) -> vec2<f32> {
     return floor(v + PX_STEP * 0.5);
 }
@@ -147,8 +151,8 @@ fn vs_main(
     let bot_right_rel = vec2(r.x.end.rel, r.y.end.rel);
     let bot_right_px = vec2(r.x.end.px, r.y.end.px);
 
-    let top_left = snap_floor(top_left_rel * window.dim) + snap_floor(top_left_px);
-    let bot_right = snap_floor(bot_right_rel * window.dim) + snap_floor(bot_right_px);
+    let top_left = snap_floor(top_left_rel * window.dim + top_left_px);
+    let bot_right = snap_floor(bot_right_rel * window.dim + bot_right_px);
     let size = bot_right - top_left;
 
     let uv = vec2<f32>(
@@ -179,8 +183,8 @@ fn masked(in: VertexOutput, color: vec4<f32>) -> vec4<f32> {
     let br = vec2(m.x.end.rel, m.y.end.rel);
     let br_px = vec2(m.x.end.px, m.y.end.px);
 
-    let top_left = snap_floor(tl * window.dim) + snap_floor(tl_px);
-    let bot_right = snap_floor(br * window.dim) + snap_floor(br_px);
+    let top_left = snap_floor(tl * window.dim + tl_px);
+    let bot_right = snap_floor(br * window.dim + br_px);
     let pos = in.clip_position.xy;
     if pos.x < top_left.x || pos.x > bot_right.x || pos.y < top_left.y || pos.y > bot_right.y {
         return color * 0.0;

core/src/ui/active.rs

@@ -41,14 +41,11 @@ pub struct ActiveData {
     /// A change to one moves a box this widget cannot fix by drawing again,
     /// and comparing them is what says so.
     pub declared: [Option<LayoutLen>; 2],
-    /// The alignment its parent asked it with. A local redraw repeats that
-    /// question, including an override chosen by a container.
-    pub align: RegionAlign,
-    /// Whether that alignment was the parent's override rather than the
-    /// widget's own property.
-    pub align_override: bool,
-    /// Its own alignment when it was last drawn. A change to the property is
-    /// found against this even when its parent overrode the alignment.
+    /// The axes along which its parent chose its box from its own answer,
+    /// so a local redraw asks the question its parent asked.
+    pub decided: [bool; 2],
+    /// Its alignment when it was last drawn, which a change to the property
+    /// is found against.
     pub own_align: RegionAlign,
     /// The movable region whose coordinates `region` uses.
     pub parent_move: MoveIdx,

core/src/ui/painter.rs

@@ -135,30 +135,34 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         id: &'s StrongWidget<W>,
         region: UiRegion,
     ) -> DrawResult<'s, 'a, W> {
-        self.widget_at(id, region, None)
+        self.widget_at(id, region, [false; 2])
     }
 
-    /// Draws a widget with an alignment chosen by its container rather than
-    /// the widget's property. Containers use this when the box they hand down
-    /// already expresses the size they report around the child.
-    pub fn widget_aligned<'s, W: ?Sized>(
+    /// Draws a widget in a box this widget chose from the widget's own
+    /// answer along the `decided` axes. On those the answer is not placed
+    /// inside the box again: it already is the box, and a fraction the
+    /// widget reported of its offer, taken of this box a second time, would
+    /// shrink it twice. A container uses this where it hands back exactly
+    /// what a child asked for -- a span placing a child at the length it
+    /// reported, a scroll giving its content the content's own length.
+    pub fn widget_decided<'s, W: ?Sized>(
         &'s mut self,
         id: &'s StrongWidget<W>,
         region: UiRegion,
-        align: RegionAlign,
+        decided: [bool; 2],
     ) -> DrawResult<'s, 'a, W> {
-        self.widget_at(id, region, Some(align))
+        self.widget_at(id, region, decided)
     }
 
     fn widget_at<'s, W: ?Sized>(
         &'s mut self,
         id: &'s StrongWidget<W>,
         region: UiRegion,
-        align_override: Option<RegionAlign>,
+        decided: [bool; 2],
     ) -> DrawResult<'s, 'a, W> {
         let region_node = self.rsc.widgets().is_region_node(id.id());
         let declared = self.declared_lens(id);
-        let align = align_override.unwrap_or_else(|| self.rsc.widgets().alignment(id.id()));
+        let align = self.rsc.widgets().alignment(id.id());
         // Composing `FULL` through a box is not quite the identity in f32,
         // so a child with nothing declared keeps the box it would have had.
         let local = match declared.iter().any(Option::is_some) {
@@ -200,7 +204,7 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
                 offer,
                 offered_px: self.px_within_offer(offer),
                 slot_wide: self.slot_wide,
-                align: align_override,
+                decided,
             },
             None,
             self.rsc,
@@ -216,7 +220,7 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         DrawResult {
             child: id,
             painter: self,
-            size,
+            size: in_parent_frame(size, local, declared),
         }
     }
 
@@ -282,7 +286,7 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         for (axis, under) in AXES.into_iter().zip(self.under.iter_mut()) {
             *under = under.and(holds[axis as usize].through(local.axis(axis).len()));
         }
-        Some(size.axis(axis))
+        Some(in_parent_frame(size, local, declared).axis(axis))
     }
 
     /// Whether this is the first box a child is asked about in during a draw
@@ -393,7 +397,13 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
     /// near edge. A container that reports one child's size gives every child
     /// this, so what it draws is inside what it says it occupies.
     pub fn box_of(&self, size: Size) -> UiRegion {
-        placed_box(UiRegion::FULL, size, RegionAlign::NEAR, [None; 2])
+        placed_box(
+            UiRegion::FULL,
+            size,
+            RegionAlign::NEAR,
+            [None; 2],
+            [false; 2],
+        )
     }
 
     /// This widget's box in pixels. Reading it makes the drawing one that
@@ -517,6 +527,23 @@ impl PrimitiveLike for &TextureHandle {
     }
 }
 
+/// A child's answer as lengths of the box it was asked from. A widget reports
+/// a fraction of the box it was given, and the widget that gave it wants the
+/// same length as a fraction of its own: one composition apart wherever the
+/// offer was not the whole of the parent's extent, as a span's is after a
+/// relative child. A declared axis is already the parent's: it resolved the
+/// rule in its own box, and the rule is what the report says.
+fn in_parent_frame(size: Size, local: UiRegion, declared: [Option<LayoutLen>; 2]) -> Size {
+    let mut size = size;
+    for (axis, declared) in AXES.into_iter().zip(declared) {
+        if declared.is_none() {
+            let len = local.axis(axis).len();
+            *size.axis_mut(axis) = size.axis(axis).within_len(len);
+        }
+    }
+    size
+}
+
 /// What a widget declares a length of its box to be. `leftover` is not one: a
 /// share of what is left over is only a length to the widget dividing one,
 /// so it passes up in the size instead.
@@ -537,12 +564,20 @@ pub(crate) fn declared_lens(widgets: &Widgets, id: WidgetId) -> [Option<LayoutLe
     })
 }
 
+/// Whether what a widget reported along an axis is the whole of the box it
+/// is in rather than a part to be placed inside it. A share fills, because a
+/// share is a length only to whoever divides one, and whoever did is the one
+/// that handed down this box. A declared axis does too: `declared_box`
+/// already placed it, in the parent's box, and the rule's length is what the
+/// widget reports there. And an axis the parent decided from the answer is
+/// the answer already.
+pub(crate) fn fills(reported: LayoutLen, declared: Option<LayoutLen>, decided: bool) -> bool {
+    reported.leftover != Weight::ZERO || declared.is_some() || decided
+}
+
 /// The box a drawing occupies: the size the widget reported, on the side of
-/// the box it was asked in that its alignment says. An axis reported as a
-/// share fills, because a share is a length only to whoever divides one, and
-/// whoever did is the one that handed down this box. A declared axis is
-/// left alone too: `declared_box` already placed it, in the parent's box,
-/// and the rule's length is what the widget reports there.
+/// the box it was asked in that its alignment says, on every axis that is
+/// not simply filled.
 ///
 /// A reported fraction is a fraction of the box the widget drew in, where a
 /// declared one is a fraction of the box its parent handed down -- a span
@@ -553,11 +588,12 @@ pub(crate) fn placed_box(
     size: Size,
     align: RegionAlign,
     declared: [Option<LayoutLen>; 2],
+    decided: [bool; 2],
 ) -> UiRegion {
     let mut placed = region;
-    for (axis, declared) in AXES.into_iter().zip(declared) {
+    for (axis, (declared, decided)) in AXES.into_iter().zip(declared.into_iter().zip(decided)) {
         let reported = size.axis(axis);
-        if reported.leftover != Weight::ZERO || declared.is_some() {
+        if fills(reported, declared, decided) {
             continue;
         }
         let span = placed.axis_mut(axis);

core/src/ui/render_state.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
 use crate::layout_diagnostics::{self as diag, Counter, ReuseOutcome, TimerKind};
-use crate::ui::painter::{declared_box, declared_lens, placed_box};
+use crate::ui::painter::{declared_box, declared_lens, fills, placed_box};
 use crate::{
     ActiveData, Axis, DrawLayers, Holds, IdLike, LayoutLen, Len, MaskIdx, MoveIdx, Moves, Painter,
-    PixelRegion, Px, PxVec2, RegionAlign, Rel, Size, StrongWidget, UiRegion, UiRsc, UiSpan, Weight,
-    WideRegion, WidgetId, Widgets,
+    PixelRegion, Px, PxVec2, Rel, Size, StrongWidget, UiRegion, UiRsc, UiSpan, Weight, WideRegion,
+    WidgetId, Widgets,
     util::{HashMap, Vec2},
 };
 
@@ -27,9 +27,10 @@ pub(super) struct DrawInfo {
     /// The box `parent_move` composes to, on the fine grid, so a widget's own
     /// box is one step further and not a walk back up the chain.
     pub slot_wide: WideRegion,
-    /// A container's answer for where the widget sits. `None` uses the
-    /// widget's own property.
-    pub align: Option<RegionAlign>,
+    /// The axes along which the parent chose this box from the widget's own
+    /// answer, so the answer is not placed inside it again. See
+    /// [`Painter::widget_decided`].
+    pub decided: [bool; 2],
 }
 
 pub struct UiRenderState {
@@ -38,8 +39,6 @@ pub struct UiRenderState {
     pub(super) output_size: PxVec2,
 
     old_root: Option<WidgetId>,
-    /// The slot every chain bottoms out in, holding the output as a box.
-    root_move: MoveIdx,
     /// Whether the output has changed since the last update. A frame is
     /// owed for that whether or not anything has to be drawn again.
     resized: bool,
@@ -67,35 +66,22 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             answer_invalid: Default::default(),
             replace_answers: false,
             moves: Default::default(),
-            root_move: MoveIdx::NONE,
             resized: false,
         }
     }
 
-    /// The window as a box, so a chain bottoms out in one rather than in a
-    /// multiplication applied after it. Composing through a box held in
-    /// pixels leaves everything below it in pixels, which is why nothing
-    /// downstream has to know the output's size to resolve a position.
-    fn write_root(&mut self) {
-        let region = UiRegion::new(
-            UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, self.output_size.x)),
-            UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, self.output_size.y)),
-        );
-        match self.root_move == MoveIdx::NONE {
-            true => self.root_move = self.moves.push(MoveIdx::NONE, region),
-            false => self.moves.set(self.root_move, region),
-        }
-    }
-
     /// The window, in whatever the platform measures it in, onto the grid
-    /// everything below it is decided on.
+    /// everything below it is decided on. No move entry holds it: a chain
+    /// bottoms out in `MoveIdx::NONE`, which is the window, and the window's
+    /// size is applied where a fraction becomes pixels -- here in `to_px`,
+    /// and in the shader by its uniform. A resize therefore rewrites no
+    /// retained entry at all.
     pub fn resize(&mut self, size: impl Into<Vec2>) {
         let size = PxVec2::from_f32(size.into());
         if size == self.output_size {
             return;
         }
         self.output_size = size;
-        self.write_root();
         self.resized = true;
     }
 
@@ -104,13 +90,13 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             layer: 0,
             parent: None,
             depth: 1,
-            parent_move: self.root_move,
+            parent_move: MoveIdx::NONE,
             region_node: false,
             mask: MaskIdx::NONE,
             offer: UiRegion::FULL,
             offered_px: self.output_size,
-            slot_wide: self.moves.compose(self.root_move, UiRegion::FULL),
-            align: None,
+            slot_wide: WideRegion::of(UiRegion::FULL),
+            decided: [false; 2],
         }
     }
 
@@ -167,8 +153,6 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
         let _layout = diag::timer(TimerKind::FullLayout);
         self.clear(rsc);
-        // free all resources & cache
-        self.write_root();
         if let Some(id) = root {
             let info = self.root_info();
             let region = Self::root_region(id.id(), rsc.widgets());
@@ -203,8 +187,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
                 info.region_node,
             );
         }
-        let own_align = rsc.widgets().alignment(id);
-        let align = info.align.unwrap_or(own_align);
+        let align = rsc.widgets().alignment(id);
         let replace_answer = self.answer_invalid.remove(&id)
             || (self.replace_answers
                 && (rsc.widgets().needs_redraw.contains(&id)
@@ -219,19 +202,15 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             if old.is_none() {
                 old = self.remove(id, false, rsc);
             }
-            self.draw_at(id, region, info, align, old.take(), rsc)
+            self.draw_at(id, region, info, old.take(), rsc)
         });
 
         let declared = declared_lens(rsc.widgets(), id);
-        // A near-edge override means the caller already chose this box from
-        // the child's answer. Applying the answer again would compound the
-        // placement; it is also how the second, final ask terminates.
-        let placed = match info.align == Some(RegionAlign::NEAR) {
-            true => region,
-            false => placed_box(region, answer.0, align, declared),
-        };
+        // The second, final ask is in a box chosen from the answer on both
+        // axes, which is also what makes it terminate.
+        let placed = placed_box(region, answer.0, align, declared, info.decided);
         let placed_info = DrawInfo {
-            align: Some(RegionAlign::NEAR),
+            decided: [true; 2],
             ..info
         };
         // The symbolic box can be unchanged while its parent slot changed
@@ -240,7 +219,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
             diag::bump(Counter::PlaceRedraws);
             let old = self.remove(id, false, rsc);
-            self.draw_at(id, placed, placed_info, RegionAlign::NEAR, old, rsc);
+            self.draw_at(id, placed, placed_info, old, rsc);
         }
 
         // The answer is only reusable while both parts of the operation are:
@@ -251,8 +230,11 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         let mut settled = answer;
         for axis in AXES {
             let reported = answer.0.axis(axis);
-            let placed_len =
-                match reported.leftover != Weight::ZERO || declared[axis as usize].is_some() {
+            let placed_len = match fills(
+                reported,
+                declared[axis as usize],
+                info.decided[axis as usize],
+            ) {
                 true => Len::FULL,
                 false => Len::from_parts(reported.rel, reported.px),
             };
@@ -263,9 +245,8 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         let active = self.active.get_mut(&id).unwrap();
         active.offer = info.offer;
         active.answer = settled;
-        active.align = align;
-        active.align_override = info.align.is_some();
-        active.own_align = own_align;
+        active.decided = info.decided;
+        active.own_align = align;
         active.depth = info.depth;
         settled
     }
@@ -276,7 +257,6 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         id: WidgetId,
         region: UiRegion,
         info: DrawInfo,
-        align: RegionAlign,
         old: Option<ActiveData>,
         rsc: &mut dyn UiRsc,
     ) -> (Size, [Holds; 2]) {
@@ -417,7 +397,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
                         offer: UiRegion::FULL,
                         offered_px: px,
                         slot_wide,
-                        align: None,
+                        decided: [false; 2],
                     },
                     rsc,
                 );
@@ -441,8 +421,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             children,
             size_deps,
             declared: declared_lens(rsc.widgets(), id),
-            align,
-            align_override: info.align.is_some(),
+            decided: info.decided,
             own_align: rsc.widgets().alignment(id),
             move_idx,
             parent_move: info.parent_move,
@@ -800,8 +779,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
                 size_deps: Vec::new(),
                 move_idx: info.parent_move,
                 declared: [None; 2],
-                align: RegionAlign::default(),
-                align_override: false,
+                decided: [false; 2],
                 own_align: rsc.widgets().alignment(id),
                 parent_move: info.parent_move,
                 mask: info.mask,
@@ -820,7 +798,6 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         self.answer_invalid.clear();
         self.replace_answers = false;
         self.moves.clear();
-        self.root_move = MoveIdx::NONE;
         self.layers.clear();
         rsc.widgets_mut().needs_redraw.clear();
         self.free(rsc);
@@ -977,8 +954,8 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             self.px_region(active.parent_move, region),
             self.px_region(active.parent_move, asked_in),
         );
-        let parent_must_place =
-            active.parent.is_some() && (!region_node || active.align_override) && !at_offer;
+        let decided = active.decided.contains(&true);
+        let parent_must_place = active.parent.is_some() && (!region_node || decided) && !at_offer;
         // An independently positioned region node can redraw at its offer
         // and move its slot to its own placement. Every other widget needs
         // its parent to reproduce a different final position.
@@ -1000,7 +977,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             offer: active.offer,
             offered_px,
             slot_wide: self.moves.compose(active.parent_move, UiRegion::FULL),
-            align: active.align_override.then_some(active.align),
+            decided: active.decided,
         };
         let (was_answer, was) = (active.answer, (active.size, active.holds));
         #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
@@ -1032,7 +1009,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         // the way it did for a region node under a `Stack` once the stack
         // stopped overriding every child's alignment.
         let placed_info = DrawInfo {
-            align: Some(RegionAlign::NEAR),
+            decided: [true; 2],
             ..info
         };
         self.draw_inner(id, region, placed_info, None, rsc);

src/widget/position/scroll.rs

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
             region = region.offset(offset);
             region.axis_mut(self.axis).end = region.axis(self.axis).start.offset(self.content_len);
         }
-        painter.widget_aligned(&self.inner, region, RegionAlign::NEAR);
+        painter.widget_decided(&self.inner, region, [true; 2]);
         // What it occupies is its box, on both axes: it clips its content to
         // that box, so it can neither take less of one nor honestly ask for
         // more. The content's length is what it scrolls through, not what it

src/widget/position/span.rs

@@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ impl Widget for Span {
             if self.dir.sign == Sign::Neg {
                 region.flip(axis);
             }
-            let placed = painter.widget_within(child, region);
+            // Along the row this box is the child's own answer, so the answer
+            // is not placed in it again; across it the child sits where its
+            // alignment says.
+            let placed = painter.widget_decided(child, region, [axis == Axis::X, axis == Axis::Y]);
             if shrinks {
                 let used = placed.len(!axis);
                 // Choosing between a fixed and a relative length from the

src/widget/position/stack.rs

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ impl Widget for Stack {
             // child is handed a box that owes nothing to its own answer, and
             // where it sits in one bigger than itself is its own business.
             match sizing == Some(i) {
-                true => painter.widget_aligned(child, region, RegionAlign::NEAR),
+                true => painter.widget_decided(child, region, [true; 2]),
                 false => painter.widget_within(child, region),
             };
         }

tests/cases/layout.rs

@@ -20,6 +20,45 @@ fn a_span_gives_each_child_the_width_it_asked_for() {
     assert_corners!(h, right, (100, 0), (400, 200));
 }
 
+/// A drawn child reports a fraction of the box it was given, and a span
+/// offers each child what is left after the one before. So a nested span
+/// that takes half of the half it was offered has taken a quarter of the row,
+/// and what follows starts three quarters along -- not at the end, which is
+/// where adding its report straight into the cursor put it.
+#[test]
+fn a_span_reads_a_child_report_as_a_fraction_of_what_it_offered() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 100));
+    let half = rect(Color::RED).width(rel(0.5)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let inner = rect(Color::GREEN).width(rel(0.5)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let nested = (inner,).span(Dir::RIGHT).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let tail = rect(Color::BLUE).width(100).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root((half, nested, tail).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
+
+    // The nested span is placed at the length it reported and drawn there
+    // once more; half of that final box is what its child takes, packed at
+    // the nested span's own start.
+    assert_corners!(h, nested, (200, 0), (300, 100));
+    assert_corners!(h, inner, (200, 0), (250, 100));
+    assert_corners!(h, tail, (300, 0), (400, 100));
+}
+
+/// The same reading through a pad: its inset is the whole box less the
+/// padding, so half of the inset plus the padding is half the box plus one
+/// padding, not two.
+#[test]
+fn a_pad_reports_a_fraction_of_its_inset_as_a_fraction_of_its_box() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 100));
+    let inner = rect(Color::GREEN).width(rel(0.5)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let padded = (inner,).span(Dir::RIGHT).pad(10).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let tail = rect(Color::BLUE).width(100).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    // Ruled to the window: a root reporting a fraction of it is otherwise
+    // placed inside it by its own alignment, which is not what is under test.
+    h.set_root((padded, tail).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
+
+    assert_corners!(h, padded, (0, 0), (210, 100));
+    assert_corners!(h, tail, (210, 0), (310, 100));
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn a_span_ruled_across_itself_does_not_measure_its_children_there() {
     let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
@@ -225,21 +264,21 @@ fn only_a_region_node_lengthens_the_chain_and_it_can_be_removed() {
     h.set_root((bar, buried).span(Dir::RIGHT));
 
     let move_idx = h.render.active[&leaf.id()].parent_move;
-    assert_eq!(h.render.moves.depth(move_idx), 1, "only the root region");
+    assert_eq!(h.render.moves.depth(move_idx), 0, "the window is no entry");
 
     h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_region_node(buried, true);
     h.frame();
     let move_idx = h.render.active[&leaf.id()].parent_move;
     assert_eq!(
         h.render.moves.depth(move_idx),
-        2,
-        "the opted-in widget's region and the root region"
+        1,
+        "the opted-in widget's region alone"
     );
 
     h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_region_node(buried, false);
     h.frame();
     let move_idx = h.render.active[&leaf.id()].parent_move;
-    assert_eq!(h.render.moves.depth(move_idx), 1);
+    assert_eq!(h.render.moves.depth(move_idx), 0);
 }
 
 /// A span that sizes from its children passes their `leftover` weight up
@@ -341,16 +380,15 @@ fn a_row_of_equal_shares_fills_it_exactly() {
     }
 }
 
-/// Where the shader puts an edge: the two parts of a scalar are floored
-/// apart, so a fraction and a pixel offset snap independently, and each is
-/// taken to the boundary it composes to within half a step of. Kept in step
-/// with `snap_floor` in `prelude.wgsl`.
+/// Where the shader puts an edge: the fraction resolved against the window
+/// plus the pixel offset, taken to the boundary it composes to within half
+/// a step of. Kept in step with `snap_floor` in `prelude.wgsl`.
 fn drawn_edges(h: &Harness, id: WidgetId, axis: Axis) -> (f32, f32) {
     let active = &h.render.active[&id];
     let region = h.render.moves.resolve(active.parent_move, active.region);
     let dim = h.size().axis(axis);
     let snap = |v: f32| (v + Px::STEP.to_f32() * 0.5).floor();
-    let edge = |s: Len| snap(s.rel.to_f32() * dim) + snap(s.px.to_f32());
+    let edge = |s: Len| snap(s.rel.to_f32() * dim + s.px.to_f32());
     let span = region.axis(axis);
     (edge(span.start), edge(span.end))
 }