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Summary

Follow-up to #1991 after checking the new desktop navbar at real widths.

  • Text links stay visible much longer. They now sit on the left next to the logo and fill the free space, instead of being centered and hidden entirely below xl (1280px). Links that no longer fit wrap to a clipped second row and drop off one at a time from the end; all four show down to about 900px. Wrapped links are also hidden from keyboard focus.
  • Open search no longer covers Ask Esie. The search icon moves before Ask Esie, and the open field is drawn in the link area (up to 400px, never wider than that area). The links hide while search is open so none peeks out beside the field, which stays robust to longer translated labels.
  • Icon-only Write button is centered. Below lg the hidden label's wrapper still took the 8px gap, pushing the icon left.
  • The navbar spans the full screen width. The 1600px cap is removed from the navbar only, so the menu button and logo sit at the left edge and the account controls at the right edge on wide screens. Page content keeps its own 1600px cap.

Test plan

  • New spec: the open field renders inside the given anchor, pressing inside it keeps it open, pressing outside closes it
  • Existing navbar specs, full web suite, lint, typecheck, icon audits
  • Local browser check at 800, 900, 1024, 1280, 1440, 1920 and 2560px, light and dark, search open and closed: no horizontal scroll, open search never overlaps Ask Esie, links drop off one at a time
  • Staging: same widths, plus a long-label locale to confirm links drop off cleanly

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  • Improvements
    • The desktop navigation adapts more flexibly to available space, keeping menu links on one row and hiding links that don’t fit.
    • The search panel can expand within the navigation area. Clicking inside the panel keeps it open; clicking a menu link closes it.

- Text links sit left next to the logo and fill the free space; links that
  no longer fit wrap to a clipped row and drop off one at a time, instead
  of the whole menu hiding below xl. Wrapped links are hidden from focus
- Search icon moves before Ask Esie; the open field is drawn in the link
  area (capped at its width) and the links hide while it is open, so it
  never covers Ask Esie or the icons
- Center the icon-only Write button: below lg the hidden label's wrapper
  still took the gap
- Drop the 1600px cap on the navbar so it spans the screen; page content
  keeps its own cap
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Keep desktop navbar links visible and search clear of Ask Esie

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 20-40 Minutes

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• Left-align desktop links and hide wrapped links from view and keyboard focus.
• Keep open search within the link area, clear of Ask Esie and account controls.
• Extend the navbar to screen width and center the icon-only Write button.
Diagram

graph TD
  Desktop["Desktop navbar"] --> Anchor["Link area"] --> Links["Text links"]
  Desktop --> Toggle["Search toggle"] --> Panel["Search panel"] --> Anchor
  Desktop --> Ask["Ask Esie"]
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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Lift search state into the desktop navbar
  • ➕ Could render the panel directly in the link area without a portal.
  • ➖ Splits search controls across components and requires additional state coordination.

Recommendation: Keep the anchored portal: it places the panel where space is available while preserving search toggle ownership and the existing unanchored behavior. Lifting search state would add coupling without a clear benefit.

Files changed (5) +113 / -37

Bug fix (4) +90 / -37
_index.scssClip wrapped links and hide links beneath open search +6/-1

Clip wrapped links and hide links beneath open search

• Keeps the menu from shrinking and uses row spacing to push wrapped links below its clipped height. Hides the menu while an anchored search panel is open, preventing translated links from showing beside the field.

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/_index.scss

navbar-desktop.tsxGive links flexible space and anchor desktop search +16/-6

Give links flexible space and anchor desktop search

• Removes the navbar’s 1600px width cap, places links in a flexible area beside the logo, and passes that area to the search toggle. Moves search before Ask Esie and removes the unused button gap when Write is icon-only.

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-desktop.tsx

navbar-search-toggle.tsxRender open search within an optional anchor +42/-28

Render open search within an optional anchor

• Portals the search panel into a supplied anchor and caps its width to the available area or 400px. Preserves unanchored rendering and treats presses inside the portaled panel as inside search.

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-search-toggle.tsx

navbar-text-menu.tsxKeep fitting links visible and wrapped links unfocusable +26/-2

Keep fitting links visible and wrapped links unfocusable

• Makes the link menu a single clipped, left-aligned row whose excess links wrap out of view. A ResizeObserver hides wrapped links so keyboard focus cannot land on them.

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx

Tests (1) +23 / -0
navbar-search-toggle.spec.tsxCover anchored search placement and outside presses +23/-0

Cover anchored search placement and outside presses

• Adds a spec confirming that open search renders inside its anchor, remains open when pressed inside, and closes when pressed outside.

apps/web/src/specs/features/shared/navbar-search-toggle.spec.tsx

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Remediation recommended

1. Wrapped navbar links can regress unnoticed ✓ Resolved
Description
NavbarTextMenu adds a ResizeObserver path that hides links whose offsetTop moves beyond the
first row, but no test exercises that behavior. The added spec only verifies the portaled search
field and outside-click handling, so resizing, wrapping, and keyboard-focus suppression remain
untested.
Code

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[R59-72]

+  useEffect(() => {
+    const menu = menuRef.current;
+    if (!menu || typeof ResizeObserver === "undefined") return;
+    const sync = () => {
+      const links = Array.from(menu.children) as HTMLElement[];
+      const firstRowTop = links[0]?.offsetTop ?? 0;
+      links.forEach((link) => {
+        link.style.visibility = link.offsetTop > firstRowTop ? "hidden" : "";
+      });
+    };
+    const observer = new ResizeObserver(sync);
+    observer.observe(menu);
+    return () => observer.disconnect();
+  }, [linksKey]);
Evidence
The production change introduces a new observer and row-position branch that mutates link
visibility. The only added test covers rendering the search field in its anchor and pointer
handling, not wrapped-link visibility or focus behavior, which fails the requirement for tests
covering each new functional path.

Rule 2667972: Require tests for all new functional code paths
apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[59-72]
apps/web/src/specs/features/shared/navbar-search-toggle.spec.tsx[175-195]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The navbar now dynamically hides links that wrap into the clipped row, but the change does not add a test for this functional path or its keyboard-focus behavior.
## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[59-72]
- apps/web/src/specs/features/shared/navbar-text-menu.spec.tsx[1-94]
## Recommended Fix
Add or update a navbar text-menu spec that mocks layout measurements and `ResizeObserver`, verifies links on later rows receive hidden visibility, and confirms links in the first row remain visible and are not removed from keyboard navigation.

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2. Language changes leave menu links hidden ✓ Resolved
Description
NavbarTextMenu reruns its visibility check only when link destinations change or the menu element
resizes, not when translated labels change width. Switching languages can re-render different labels
in the same fixed-size menu, leaving links that now fit hidden or newly wrapped links
keyboard-focusable.
Code

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[R69-72]

+    const observer = new ResizeObserver(sync);
+    observer.observe(menu);
+    return () => observer.disconnect();
+  }, [linksKey]);
Evidence
The synchronization writes inline visibility from each link’s row position, but its dependency key
contains only URLs and its observer watches only the fixed-height menu. Locale selection switches
i18next and closes the sidebar, causing a re-render with labels of different lengths without
necessarily changing either trigger.

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[25-48]
apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[55-80]
apps/web/src/features/shared/switch-lang/index.tsx[26-34]
apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-main-sidebar.tsx[230-238]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Translated labels can change which links wrap without resizing the menu or changing its link destinations, leaving stale visibility styles.
## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[58-72]
## Recommended Fix
Rerun the row-position synchronization after rendered label changes as well as menu resizes. Include translated labels in the effect dependencies or otherwise observe child layout changes, and test a language switch at a width where wrapping changes.

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3. Resizing can hide the focused menu link ✓ Resolved
Description
sync sets a wrapped link’s visibility to hidden without checking whether that link currently
has keyboard focus. If the navbar narrows while a user is focused on a link that moves to the
clipped row, focus remains on a control they can no longer see.
Code

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[R63-66]

+      const links = Array.from(menu.children) as HTMLElement[];
+      const firstRowTop = links[0]?.offsetTop ?? 0;
+      links.forEach((link) => {
+        link.style.visibility = link.offsetTop > firstRowTop ? "hidden" : "";
Evidence
The new synchronization hides every link below the first row solely by offset, while the menu clips
wrapped rows. Its flexible parent can change width without replacing the focused link.

apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[62-80]
apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-desktop.tsx[64-69]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
A resize can make the currently focused menu link wrap, after which the visibility synchronization hides it without relocating focus.
## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx[62-67]
## Recommended Fix
When a link about to be hidden contains the active element, move focus to an appropriate visible navbar control before applying hidden visibility. Cover a width change while keyboard focus is on a trailing menu link.

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[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; the previous finding is fixed and no new blocking issues were found.

Summary

The PR gives desktop links more room, places open search inside the link area, and removes the navbar’s width cap.

  • Desktop links fill the navbar and drop away as space runs short.
  • The search field opens inside the links area and leaves nearby controls visible.
  • The Write icon stays centered when its label is hidden.

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The desktop navbar now places the search panel in a flexible anchor beside its text links. The text menu clips to one row and hides links that wrap or overlap an open search panel. The search toggle supports portal rendering and checks both the navbar slot and panel for outside-pointer interactions.

Changes: Desktop Navbar Search

Layer / File(s) Summary
Responsive navbar layout
apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-desktop.tsx, apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-text-menu.tsx, apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/_index.scss
The navbar places the text menu and search toggle in a flexible anchor. The menu clips to one row and observes size changes to hide links that wrap. The stylesheet hides menu links when the search panel is visible.
Anchored search panel
apps/web/src/features/shared/navbar/navbar-search-toggle.tsx, apps/web/src/specs/features/shared/navbar-search-toggle.spec.tsx
The search toggle can portal its panel into the anchor and treats the panel as inside during outside-pointer checks. The test covers interaction with the anchored input and a menu link.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant NavbarDesktop
  participant NavbarSearchToggle
  participant SearchAnchor
  participant NavbarTextMenu
  NavbarDesktop->>SearchAnchor: Pass anchor to search toggle
  User->>NavbarSearchToggle: Open search
  NavbarSearchToggle->>SearchAnchor: Portal search panel
  User->>NavbarSearchToggle: Press inside search input
  NavbarSearchToggle->>SearchAnchor: Keep panel open
  User->>NavbarTextMenu: Press menu link
  NavbarTextMenu->>NavbarSearchToggle: Trigger panel close
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Which links wrap to the clipped row also changes when a link's width does
(web font loaded, label translated), not only when the menu resizes, so
observe each link as well as the menu. If the focused link gets clipped,
move focus to the last visible link instead of leaving it on a hidden one.

Add specs for the clipped-row behaviour: every link is observed, clipped
links hide and come back once they fit, and focus moves off a clipped link.
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