Questions tagged [design]
Use this tag for questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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While editing the previous version of answer, the warning box in the side bar is not sticky
When the top bar stickiness is enabled or disabled, in the answer section while edit an answer If I select any one of the previous revision, I'm receiving the warning below in the side bar:
Warning!...
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Why are images shown next to each comment?
in my opinion it would look cleaner if the comment images/buttons were only shown when hovering over the comments (on desktop). Why are they always shown?
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Make it easier to find what you want [duplicate]
I am really annoyed by how little screen space is used for a question or actual content when I am not logged in to sites on the network.
I visited an AskUbuntu question and found less than 10% of the ...
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Long words in tag excerpts move outside the box
When there's an extremely long 'word', like a link, the tag excerpt popup does not hyphenate the word and break it to a new line. Instead, it extends outwards, like so:
(link to that particular ...
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What's the reason to make link in the spam post bold?
In the deleted as spam post the link to the revision history is bold styled:
You can check this one for an instance.
Is there a background to make such a link bold or merely an oversight?
BTW, ...
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Weird Logo at bottom
I was reviewing the close votes and meanwhile, I saw the following where the Stack Overflow logo is popping out of the footer at the left bottom and remains there even if you scroll up or down.
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No right border for input field when suggesting as duplicate [duplicate]
Right border of input field when suggesting closing a question as a duplicate isn't visible:
Tested on Windows 7 for Firefox 64.0.2 and Chrome 71.0.3578.98
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Top of answer covered by sticky top bar after clicking direct link… if it's a short answer just near enough to the bottom of the page
I thought this was resolved after my other question was status-completed, but I just saw it again. This is the first time that I've seen it since then, so it only happens in very specific ...
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Stack Overflow logo weird styling in SO Japanese users tab [duplicate]
The regular logo is shown in the users tab:
But when going to a specific user's page it's cut off:
I use Chrome.
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Add “Main site reviews” button in meta sites queue [duplicate]
Main sites have button to open meta site queue.
But meta's queue page doesn't have button to go to main site queue.
Could you add it?
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Change new-login-left and new-login-right to adhere to style and border
Please could we change these divs:
To this:
By applying some simple css:
border-style:solid;
border-color:silver;
padding:10px !important;
border-width:1px;
The original design looks a tad busy ...
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“Tag plus something else” search looks ugly on beta sites when the tag wiki excerpt contains the tag name [duplicate]
Searching for a [tag-name], plus some other criteria, results in an ugly tag information box which seems to show HTML tags treated as text, rather than as HTML.
Here's an example: search Writing for [...
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The time in suspension banner doesn't support “hover over for UTC time”
This is the banner I'm talking about:
Note the last part of the text. It's a time. Usually for first-time suspensions, the time reads "in 23 hours" or "in 7 days", which does not give any exact ...
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“Thanks for the feedback!” modal hovering over website search bar at top
It looks like the "Thanks for the feedback!" modal is at the wrong "hover" level. When it opens, if you scroll up, it appears over the website bar, covering the search bar, however it feels like it ...
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Please use different color on 'seen' anchor tag [migrated]
Until recently the color of Questions in the main pages of Questions of dba.stackexchange eg had had significance. Now a Question that I have opened is the same color as one I have not yet looked at.
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Add margin to tag button/increase padding between lines
For example, on this badge page you can see that there is no margin between lines:
'cause tag button doesn't have margin:
.badges-page .single-badge-table .single-badge-wrapper .single-badge-...
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Show full site names in the Migration 10k tool
The layout of the Migration 10k tool is weird:
I think that the page should be changed so that the entire site name is shown instead of just, for example, "Project Mana...". There's no need for ...
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Move the aside box about the review queues grid to the top
With the recent changes to the review page, on a PC screen with sufficient width, the review page looks as in this example (note the "aside" box in it, containing "Super User is moderated by ...", ...
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Review spring cleaning: performance improvements and responsive design
This is just a heads-up that there's a lot of work underway right now on the Review system, mostly in the areas of cleanup and bug-fixing.
The review system we have now was originally built over the ...
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Unparsed HTML shows on search result page
When you search on any of the SE network sites, with a tag (so that a description is shown); it shows the tag info content box, with the highlight-search-term span elements.
For eg. I searched [c#] ...
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Single line code is hidden by the horizontal scrollBar [duplicate]
The horizontal ScrollBar on a one line code on any post is hiding the code for me.
I'm using Google Chrome 71.0.3578.98 on macOS v10.14 (Mojave), but I think this bug is a general issue. And here are ...
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Question filtering menu displays partly off small screens
While using the Chrome browser on my iPhone SE, I noticed the question filtering menu displayed partly off the screen.
Then I repro'd this behavior on my laptop using Chrome and reducing the ...
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Ransom note look alike font size mixture in tools page [duplicate]
The font size of the tools page (e.g. this page https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools) mixes different font sizes. The links to deleted questions seem to use another font size than the one to answers:
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Link to meta queues broken on wide screens
The last update broke the link to meta queues.
On wide screens it looks like this:
Previously this link was on the bottom of the page and at mobile devices it still looks as yesterday:
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Class .keyboard-selected remains after selection ends
With keyboard shortcuts enabled, to reproduce:
Go to any question (including this one).
Press e to enter the edit mode.
Cancel the edit.
Select anything else with your mouse or keyboard
The ....
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All Sites - Search for community by name and description
On the All Sites page of SE there is no way to search for a community by its name or description. The only way to find a community is to read each site individually as requested by the description of ...
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Font size in page not found error page is increased
In the page not found error page, the font-size for the text is increased recently. Previously the font-size was less and the UI looked good.
Is the design change on purpose or any impact with any ...
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Wrong cursor in editing help page on Bare URLs section
On the editing help page if a section is expandable mouse cursor displayed as a hand in collapsed state so clicking on the section body expand the section:
Non-expandable section has normal ...
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The share link dialog box appears partly off a small screen
While using the Chrome browser on my iPhone SE, I clicked "share" to get a link to a post.
I noticed the share dialog box appeared halfway off the screen.
Then I repro'd this behavior on ...
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Title on privilege pages look duplicated on small screen
When the device screen width is small enough on some privilege pages, e.g. here the page title looks duplicated:
After increasing the width all falls into place:
I suggest to remove the ...
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Cannot view “Delete this answered question?” dialog on small screens
I thought about deleting a question recently, so I clicked the delete link.
The Delete this answered question? dialog appeared, but it was not entirely visible on my small iPhone SE. Worse, I ...
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Minor layout inaccuracy: Text offset to SVG image of button in watched tags sidebar-widget
When looking at the 'watched tags' sidebar-widget accross the SE-network
it catches the eye that (even without those two beautiful free-hand circles ;) )
The widget-header-text is aligned with the ...
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Profile popup window overlay doesn't fully cover screen on moblie
When I open any pop-up window (badge tracker/viewer, WB hat selection, etc) on the profile page window on an iPad (using Safari) I get to look at this ugly setup:
See a not marked-up image here.
The ...
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Stack Exchange on a small resolution screen
When I'm behind a 1024x768 screen the width of content on this site is decreased making several answers and questions inconvenient to read. How can I have the site loaded with full widths and heights ...
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What are the requirements for a (beta) site logo?
Someone on Sustainable Living SE proposed to hold a 'new logo' contest so we can make the beta site a bit more distinct and recognizable. From this Meta post I understood that Stack Exchange sites can ...
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Is there some way to display the number of characters in the title of a new question? [duplicate]
Surely, as a newbie here at SE, I have missed something.
The title will display "Title cannot be longer than 150 characters" if it is too long, but no indication of the actual length.
My usual ...
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Can we add some padding in the linked questions page?
If a post has a huge number of linked questions, we can able to see a link as see more linked questions... in the "Linked" section. When clicking on the "see more linked questions" link, the results ...
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Use more available space for search box in top bar
Today I noticed that top bar's search box width was increased. It's a good news! But I can't understand why it's not increased even more. In particular, the right offset could be minimized as done for ...
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.info-box div missing background color in review
I was just doing some LQP review, when I happen upon the post pictured below. There is the normal "Our system has identified this post as possible spam; please review carefully" warring, however there ...
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Where is the best place to post suggested improvements for a SE Site - Here at Meta or on the actual Site itself?
I have a number of suggestions to improve a site's look, feel, design, etc. and wonder where or who to direct those thoughts:
The Moderators, who are either elected or appointed, I believe just '...
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Voting buttons are displayed on questions with historical lock and their answers
Previously, historically locked questions (and the answers) had their voting buttons hidden. The faq says:
In addition to the post notice being prominently displayed, posts which are historically ...
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Vote buttons, stars, and moderator margin controls just got a lot lighter
The controls in the left margin of a post -- vote buttons, star, and moderator controls (timeline, flag count, deleted comments) are now a much lighter shade of gray than they used to be.
Before (...
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Auto-expand the editor size up to the screen/view size while the text grows
For
example,
if
I
am
typing
and
I
hit
the
editor
current
box
size,
instead
of
adding
the
scroll
bar,
expand
the
editor
box
size
up
to
the
screen
view
size.
Only
then,
add
the
scroll
bar.
This is ...
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Size of the search textbox in the top bar is increased suddenly on all the sites
Size of the search textbox in the top bar is increased suddenly. I can recall the size of the textbox being smaller previously.
Is the textbox size increased on purpose, or is this a bug?
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Why did the favorite button became little different and smaller?
So currently the favorite button looks like:
But previously, it looks little bigger, and contains a border for the star, did stack exchange update it?
I think it looks better before, would we change ...
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Pasting code and undoing undo much more than expected
Like this:
Once, I read somewhere (hence, this is may be a duplicate post, but I cannot find no one else reporting it right now) this problem is because when you paste something on StackExchange ...
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When trying to print out questions, why is the content shifted to the left? [duplicate]
I am not interested in a plugin to do a fancy print, I'd just like for the content to be spread out on the page.
I have hopefully attached a page from each of the four sites I recently joined to ...
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Site analytics looks broken: “responsiveness” and “yandex.rug.stackexchange.com”
I noticed some problems on the site analytics page. I saw these problems on ELU, but they could happen anywhere.
First of all, the page is "responsive", which apparently means that as the browser ...
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New flag overview UI - “dropdown-arrows” used but there's no dropdown action
The UI in the flags overview has received an update with some nice design love, and it looks good.
The only thing that bothers me a little is that there's these arrow-style icons (>) in the menu ...
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Area 51 - alignment isssue in the progress proposal tab
In Area 51 progress proposal tab currently 18 proposals are displayed. In the end of the page there is an alignment issue.
The space between the proposal div and the disclaimer text is empty if I ...
