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Cannot scroll metadata sidebar

Open becarpenter opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Describe the issue

In pages like https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-carpenter-6man-zone-ui-04, it's nice that the metadata sidebar can be switched on or off, but when it's present, it can longer be scrolled up or down and most of it is inaccessible without zooming way out.

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becarpenter avatar May 01 '24 23:05 becarpenter

Interesting. WFM (tried current Safari and Chromium). What was your Browser?

cabo avatar May 01 '24 23:05 cabo

Firefox 117 on Windows 10. Same problem with Chrome and Edge on Windows. I can't test on Linux as I'm on travel.

On an Android phone things are different, as the metadata sidebar isn't presented as a sidebar, and things work as intended.

becarpenter avatar May 02 '24 03:05 becarpenter

Firefox 125 on macOS allows the metadata to be scrolled using a scroll wheel or trackpad gesture when the cursor is over the sidebar, but there's no associated scroll bar widget for the sidebar.

jennifer-richards avatar May 03 '24 14:05 jennifer-richards

I don't have a mouse with me this week, but you're right, a very non-intuitive trackpad gesture does work (hold down one finger and scroll with another finger). It seems to me that this is new, but without a time machine I can't be sure.

becarpenter avatar May 03 '24 19:05 becarpenter

@becarpenter - I'm not sure what we can do differently here - do you have a proposal?

rjsparks avatar May 31 '24 17:05 rjsparks

I meant to add that when I got home from travel, I realised that I've been scrolling that sidebar with the mouse wheel (without ever thinking about it), so this is nothing new. But with just the trackpad, it's a very non-intuitive two-finger operation.

Isn't it possible to add a vertical scroll bar within the sidebar?

becarpenter avatar May 31 '24 20:05 becarpenter

I think @larseggert had tried and ran into issues, but we'll revisit.

rjsparks avatar May 31 '24 22:05 rjsparks

The main issue is that the main view scrollbar and the sidebar scrollbar overlap. There may be a solution through adding padding, but that obviously wastes a bit of horizontal space.

larseggert avatar Jun 01 '24 02:06 larseggert

Can you make the sidebar float? There's an ancient stackoverflow conversation about something similar: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19967352

becarpenter avatar Jun 01 '24 03:06 becarpenter

Thanks! I just noticed that this has been fixed with an additional scrollbar.

becarpenter avatar Jun 28 '24 22:06 becarpenter