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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
gaekwad wrote #343460:
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All good ideas, unfortunately none of them affected the outcome. It survives multiple reboots, too…so it’s relatively easy to reproduce locally, if we’re looking for any kind of silver lining.
Workaround is to hide the browser sidebar, and it’s all fine – I can live with that.
Out of curiosity, and since you can reproduce “on demand”, can you try that out with Sandspace as the admin team?
And also, does that affect radio buttons, and are checkboxes on the right side (forms panel for example) affected in the same way?
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
phiw13 wrote #343464:
Out of curiosity, and since you can reproduce “on demand”, can you try that out with Sandspace as the admin team?
The plot thickens: Sandspace is not affected (i.e. works as expected). Hive and Classic are affected.
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And also, does that affect radio buttons, and are checkboxes on the right side (forms panel for example) affected in the same way?
Yes to radio buttons being affected in the same way with Hive and Classic. Sandspace not affected. I will confirm with right side checkboxes now.
Edit: right-leaning checkboxes are affected by the original issue.
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
Okay that is freaky. Have we missed a closing div or something somewhere in the hive/classic markup that’s shoving the UI overlay out? Or is there something in Sandspace that corrects an assumption? Or a CSS rule is gaining margin/padding when it shouldn’t.
Maybe validating the admin side HTM might reveal something?
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
Bloke wrote #343468:
Maybe validating the admin side HTM might reveal something?
There are 4x aria-label errors, nothing related to the CSS layout.
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
Pete, thank for testing. That is all interesting.
Radio buttons suffering from the issue is what I would expect of course, given how their architecture is pretty similar (down at the OS level). That Sandspace behaves differently gives me one eventual clue at what might go “wrong” on that one Mac.
There is one significant different approach between Sandspace and Hive in the way the checkboxes and radios handled. Sandspace leaves those two widgets at their default styling (appearance: auto) and only provide a few hints (accent-color, some layout hints: block-size, inline-size) whereas Hive goes for the full manual styling (appearance: none).
The whole issue might then be a related to some weakness (bug) deep down in the OS, possibly graphic card in combination with a third party display? If I remember correctly Jakob uses an iMac, and Stef a macBook Pro – both Apple monitors. Pete uses a Mac mini with some third party monitor. I use an (old) Intel-powered iMac and a battered and dying MBA.
I don’t think you can do anything easy in Hive to solve the issue in a few edge cases. It would require some significant redesign of the form-controls styling in Hive.
But that is speculation on my side.
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
Pete,
Could you try this in your Hive custom.css (in hive/assets/css/):
@supports (margin-trim: none) {
[type=checkbox]:not(.ui-checkboxradio), [type=radio]:not(.ui-checkboxradio) {
appearance: auto !important;
}
:is([type=checkbox]:not(.ui-checkboxradio), [type=radio]:not(.ui-checkboxradio)):focus,
:is([type=checkbox]:not(.ui-checkboxradio), [type=radio]:not(.ui-checkboxradio)):focus-visible {
outline: auto;
}
}This resets radios and checkboxes to their default, and make sure you get some feedback when clicking/toggling / tabbing to them. It only applies to Safari.
If my speculation is correct this might “fix” the issue.
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
phiw13 wrote #343472:
The whole issue might then be a related to some weakness (bug) deep down in the OS, possibly graphic card in combination with a third party display? If I remember correctly Jakob uses an iMac, and Stef a macBook Pro – both Apple monitors. Pete uses a Mac mini with some third party monitor. I use an (old) Intel-powered iMac and a battered and dying MBA.
This is some top-tier Sherlock Holmes sleuthing! I can confirm the bug is reproducible on a computer with a third-party monitor using the external video interface. The bug is not reproducible on my other computer with a near-identical setup…and that’s a MacBook Air with an Apple-branded screen using the internal video interface.
phiw13 wrote #343476:
Could you try this in your Hive custom.css (in hive/assets/css/):
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This resets radios and checkboxes to their default, and make sure you get some feedback when clicking/toggling / tabbing to them. It only applies to Safari.
I’ve set up custom.css per your code snippet, and it is loaded. There doesn’t appear to be any visible change with the toggling (i.e. still a right offset).
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
I’ve set up custom.css per your code snippet, and it is loaded. There doesn’t appear to be any visible change with the toggling (i.e. still a right offset).
well it was a shot in the dark…
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Re: Possible macOS/Safari 26.5.2 bug - checkbox toggle with sidebar shown
phiw13 wrote #343482:
well it was a shot in the dark…
It was a greatly-appreciated shot in the dark…
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