thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-website
RTL navigation alignment
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- HTML
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Description
For right-to-left languages and layouts, the dropdown menu panels open out of reach away from the item hovered:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7d81aeee-6638-40d9-bc39-ab0ecae022e0
Luckily the nav's not hover only, so clicking the menu item pins the panel open so the pointer can be moved to the other side and interacted with the dropdown items.
(It would seem as there's the clamp to not open the panels outside the viewport, it restricts the dropdowns on the right side if they exceed the viewport, whereas for RTL layouts this might need sticking to the left side.)
There's also a tiny alignment mismatch in footer nav for RTL layout:
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the RTL dropdown behavior and footer navigation mismatch shown in the attached images, then trace the navigation layout and viewport-clamping behavior. Done means dropdown panels open within reach for RTL layouts and the footer navigation aligns correctly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css, html
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100