Matthew Whitaker

Thanks for reporting this. It seems likely that this is an underlying issue in Flutter's text-rendering engine. I can look into this a bit more.

I agree. This is probably related to #1440 and the html parser taking nbsp processing into its own hands

Added a rough fix in #1468 that gets us roughly back to the 3.0.0-beta.2 behavior. The core issue is unfortunately quite nuanced, so a better fix may take quite a...

It's possible, but not a high priority, since it doesn't seem like this feature is useful given that most html elements don't overlap (we don't support float-based or absolute positioning)....

Ah, so you are requesting that we also add relative and absolute positioning. That would certainly make the z-index use case more compelling. Unfortunately, supporting absolute/relative positioning isn't high on...