diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 4c90dc81..3862f534 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
 - whenever a list of things is destroyed, each successive item must be removed as it is destroyed, otherwise we might wind up in a situation where we access items after they're freed
 - make the name of the variable to refer to a single tab page consistent (already decided to make them all `page`)
 - make sure uiEntryOnChanged() is not triggered when calling uiEntrySetText()
+- clean up windows resizing logic
+	- make it so that only top-level window resizes trigger an update; container resizes do not update
+		- windows resizing logic is simply not comprehensive enough (no null resizes allowed) to do things
+		- we control resizes of all children so we can reliably update after a resize
+		- we already need to do this in uiContainer :/
 
 ultimately:
 - add some sort of runtime type checking
diff --git a/box.c b/box.c
index ebc60c3b..0031a206 100644
--- a/box.c
+++ b/box.c
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 #include "ui.h"
 #include "uipriv.h"
 
-// TODO
-// - horizontal boxes (only) inside vertical boxes (and vice versa) aren't updated on Windows (only) when padded changes until a horizontal (only; vertical) resize
-
 struct box {
 	uiBox b;
 	void (*baseDestroy)(uiControl *);
diff --git a/windows/container.c b/windows/container.c
index 54919490..ae158886 100644
--- a/windows/container.c
+++ b/windows/container.c
@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ static void containerResize(uiControl *cc, intmax_t x, intmax_t y, intmax_t widt
 
 	if (MoveWindow(c->hwnd, x, y, width, height, TRUE) == 0)
 		logLastError("error resizing uiContainer in containerResize()");
+	// under some circumstances this might not be sufficient
+	// example: check the Spaced checkbox; inside boxes will have been resized already before they get a chance to update their padded
+	SendMessageW(c->hwnd, msgUpdateChild, 0, 0);
 }
 
 static int containerVisible(uiControl *cc)