Questions tagged [responsive-design]
For questions related to how the site looks, feels and behaves when its responsive design comes into play
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Reputation display in top bar when accepting an answer in responsive design
There is a minor display issue in the desktop and mobile web view with the responsiveness is enabled.
When the responsiveness is enabled, usually we didn't see the reputation in the top bar. But if ...
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Content running off page on responsive version [duplicate]
On mobile I browse the responsive design. It usually works well, except today:
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Strange overlapping post-layout and sidebar
I've noticed this issue on a handful of other communities, but making the browser window narrow (mine is 1080x960) makes the .post-layout and #sidebar elements overlap. Maybe something to do with the ...
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Hide 'How to Edit' sidebar widget when improving a suggested edit from the Q&A page
When improving a suggested edit from the Q&A page itself (as opposed to from the review queue), the sidebar widget is positioned awkwardly, both to the right and under the edit form:
It also ...
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Un-responsive profile pages
Profile pages across the network don't seem to be responsive. Unless I fully maximize the window on my 1280x800 screen, I'm stuck with horizontal scroll bars. Are there any plans to fix this?
An easy ...
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Clicking 'I will edit to explain how' leads to non-responsive edit page
When your question has pending duplicate votes, you're shown a banner which ends with:
No, my question is different. I will edit to explain how.
Clicking the edit link will lead to a non-...
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Show “Tap to show spoiler” message for spoilers in responsive design
Related question: Should mobile ask for taps on spoilers, not clicks?, but that is about the (deprecated) mobile web interface, not the new responsive design. This feature request is related but ...
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Not all Q&A dialogs have been made responsive yet
Almost all dialogs on the Q&A pages have been made responsive. I've found one exception (but maybe there are more) among the rarely used ones, e.g. the one you get when voting to delete a question ...
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stackexchange.com homepage really needs a responsive design
If you hear about Stack Exchange from a random person, and you’re thinking
Oh I want to go check out this nifty site kids these days like
you probably will open up your phone’s browser and look up ...
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Cropping top starred lines in chat, responsive
I was at a chat room and noticed starred lines cropping:
If I check responsiveness by shaking the thing, it pops in and out:
I saw this in one of my browsers, and checked that happens in all of ...
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“Ask question” takes too much vertical space on questions with responsive mobile, looks bad
Almost all of this text comes from this previously closed and deleted bug report. That bug was fixed, but now it’s come back!
Looking at a question, I noticed that the “Ask Question” button by the ...
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“Copy link” button doesn’t work in responsive mobile Safari
A recent update added a “copy link” button when the share menu is open on posts. However, in the responsive site on mobile Safari, this button doesn’t work. This could be fixed if a different method ...
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“Ask Question” button shoved to the right in responsive mobile on some posts
Looking at the sites today, I noticed a glitch on the responsive mobile design (iPhone 7 running Safari).
On Meta:
On a Stack Overflow Team:
Apparently this sometimes happens when there’s a long ...
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'Add Another Answer' button lacks styling in Safari on iOS
When viewing the website in full site mode in Safari on iOS, some of the buttons lack the new styling. I've already reported a few instances occurring in the new flag dashboard: 'Undelete post'...
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Keep Ask Question button to the right on smaller screens [duplicate]
On smaller screens, the 'Ask Question' button is now sandwiched between the question title and the statistics. This is rather illogical, as it will move you away from the question page. Can we move it ...
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Weird, squished spacing with “Ask Question” on questions with responsive mobile
Update on August 22nd 2019: This glitch has come back:
I posted https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/331385/399694 yesterday, which got closed, with a very similar bug, but this is not a duplicate of ...
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“Ask Question” got pushed around on questions with responsive mobile [duplicate]
Looking at a question, I noticed this weird spacing problem with the “Ask Question” button by the title:
How it used to look, for comparison:
This seems to be caused by the same thing as "Ask ...
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“Ask Question” and “Top Questions” too close to each other on mobile
A recent change seems to have moved the "Ask Question" button and the "Top Questions" text closer to each other, and now they're touching. This seems wrong to me:
Could this please be fixed?
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New “Similar questions” widget is not responsive enough
When I ask a question in a small browser window, the question titles aren't visible, so I can't really determine if my question has already been asked before:
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Links overlap on snippets
With certain screen widths, the “Hide results” and “Full page” links on snippets overlap (e.g. here, you need to run the code snippet to repro)
Using a smaller or bigger width makes the page ...
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Do not place the editor on top of the author when zooming in
At a certain zoom level or sufficiently small browser window, respectively, author and editor information do not fit side-by-side anymore and get placed on top of each other. So far so good. However ...
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Background of “Edit tags” button overlaps with other tags
After the using of inline tag editor (tap "Edit tags", then cancel) on this post the "Edit tags" button background is overlapped with other tags:
Image was taken from mobile Chrome with enabled ...
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Imgur notice overlaps the upload popup's border
On the insert image, the popup Imgur notice overlaps the upload popup's border for small screens (the image is taken on desktop Firefox with a narrow window, but the issue is also affects ruSO on my ...
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No “back” to translate
On the ask question page for the responsive view the word "back" is not available to translate for use on international sites. Here is the screenshot of English based site to clarify:
To see this ...
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Add a horizontal scrollbar to MathJax formula blocks
MathJax formula blocks (i.e. $$these$$, not single-dollar-sign $inline$ mathjax) sometimes get wide, especially when they're arrays. Wide formulae don't play nicely with the responsive design though ...
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Revisit the decision not allowing to create tags from mobile
You can't create tags when using the mobile version of the site; when you attempt to do so, you're greeted with the following error message:
New tags cannot be created from the mobile site. The tag ...
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Tab border rounding doesn't take wrapping into account
When tabs can't fit horizontally into page, they're wrapped to new line. But since the first, and the last tab borders are rounded this looks little bit odd:
I zoomed an image to show the issue ...
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Filter sites are not responsive
Viewing questions from a global filter (like this one) looks like this on my mobile device:
My requests:
Please make filter sites responsive, so I don't have to zoom and scroll horizontally when I ...
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What is the state of the new site designs promised after the redesign?
Last year, Jon Ericson wrote in an announcement about the completion of the responsive design rollout:
We'll continue fixing bugs and starting in 2019 we'll be working on designs for sites with the ...
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Flag summary page title may overflow into description block for non-English UI sites
In case of localized sited (in particular for Stack Overflow in Russian) and for a small screen there is a design issue with the head block of the flag summary page. For instance title of the current ...
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Suggested edits view only partially visible when using “Full site” in mobile
Although the review queue works fine, if I try to review a pending suggested edit by visiting the post and then clicking on edit(1), the view for the review is only partially visible. I cannot ...
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Remove bronze/silver/gold tabs from the Badges page
On the Badges page you can switch between "color" of badges by selecting the corresponding tab (bronze/silver/gold) or by pressing the badge icon:
Since the badge type info is always visible I ...
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Display post asked/viewed/active info directly beneath the question on mobile
When I mention asked/viewed/active, I mean this little bit seen at the top of the sidebar:
This information can be substantially relevant for people dropping in to moderate or curate a question. ...
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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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Move side widget “Help improve the site” to the bottom of the review queues on smaller screens
When viewing the /review page on smaller screens, the "Help improve the site" widget, normally shown as a side widget on the right, is now shown above the review queues themselves. Can it please be ...
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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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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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No review, only hats
I can’t see the review or help icon in the top bar. All I see is hats and some other stuff:
The help icon is typically missing for me when I unlock review. But it’s blocked by hats even on sites ...
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Search box on advice page missing on mobile web
It’s pretty simple: compare this page using desktop view with the screenshots below of the mobile version:
What Shog calls the “most important part” of the page is missing: the search bar. Also, ...
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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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Allow users to use responsive theme on all sites while logged in on a mobile browser
I (like many SE users) prefer the new responsive theme offered by SE as it has far more functionality and is simply more appropriate for my needs.
However I must manually scroll to the bottom of each ...
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Responsiveness breaks image proportions
When responsiveness is enabled and page width is small enough the image proportions are broken:
This behavior also affects both SE apps: Android and iOS. But in case of app you can’t disable it.
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Winter Bash top bar not responsive enough on very narrow screens
I like the responsiveness of the Winter Bash page, but I found one small problem: on very narrow screens, the user information in the top bar will shift down and overlap the Winter Bash logo:
It's ...
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Flag-summary page is *mostly* responsive, but post titles overflow into the stats box
I see this on my flag-summary page:
At first I thought this was because not all pages on the site are responsive yet, but this one (otherwise) seems to be. The stuff on the main part of the page re-...
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Responsive design makes it impossible to select a mod message template on mobile [duplicate]
I just tried to select a mod message template to compose a mod message. However, since that's basically impossible without a mouse (a complaint for another time), I switched to mobile. However, I got.....
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Responsive Design Themes - What can sites customize and how can they get changes implemented?
Update:
We've begun working on new site designs and the information below also applies to them. I've added a new section about it and adjusted some of the guidelines as they've changed a bit.
There ...
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Too many hamburgers and not enough space for icons
This is how the new responsive design looks on a narrow screen when you have a lot of stuff going on in the top bar:
This is how it looks when you narrow the screen a bit:
The help and the review ...
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Responsive design now available on all sites; new theme customization coming soon
It's been a long process, but the changes we announced back in March are done. Most sites will see their new themes live for all users on November 30. Some sites with blocking issues may have to wait ...
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How to show only new questions (with the new responsive theme)
As an administrator, I want to see all new questions that are posted to the site.
Starting from the site's homepage https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com, how do I show only new questions, in as few ...
