fix(web): bind the composer's caret to its glyphs with one scrollport
The composer paints its draft in two layers — the textarea owns the value,
the selection and the caret, the backdrop paints every visible glyph — and
they had one scroll offset each, kept equal by a `scroll` listener. That
holds at rest and not in motion: a wheel gesture scrolls the textarea on the
compositor, the listener runs afterwards, and for those frames the caret sits
at the new offset with the words at the old one. Measured on a harness of the
same geometry, a 200px offset change separates caret from glyphs by ~200px
(chromium 203, firefox 202, WebKit 203) until a later frame — the caret
flying out of its own text when a user swipes a long draft quickly.
Both layers now ride one scrollport: `[data-input-scroll]` carries the
14-line cap, the auto-grow stack inside it is as tall as the whole draft, and
the textarea holds no scrollable overflow of its own. The browser applies one
offset to both layers in the same frame, so the coupling is structural rather
than maintained. The backdrop's trailing-line sentinel and the cross-engine
wrap-width premise go with the mirror: the layers now share a containing
block, which closes the WebKit 768-against-776 gap by construction.
2026-07-31 15:25:29 +08:00
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# Composer draft scrolling (14-line cap, two text layers, one scrollport)
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fix(web): scroll the composer's glyph layer with its textarea
A composer draft past the 14-line cap could not be scrolled: the caret and
the selection moved, but the words stayed frozen at line 1, so the tail of
anything longer than the cap was unreachable while writing it.
The composer paints its text in two stacked layers. The textarea owns the
value, the selection and the caret but renders its own glyphs transparent;
every visible character is painted by the decoration backdrop beneath it,
which also carries the claim-token highlight, the chips and the ghost hint.
The backdrop is `inset: 0; overflow: hidden` — clipped, not scrolled — and
nothing linked its offset to the textarea's. Below the cap both layers rest
at 0, which is why the defect hid behind every short-draft screenshot and
fixture.
InputBar now mirrors the textarea's scrollTop onto the backdrop, from a
`scroll` listener (every gesture and every caret-driven scroll) and from a
layout effect keyed on the committed draft (an edit reflows both layers
without necessarily firing a scroll event).
Scrolling is layout, so jsdom cannot show this: the unit spec stubs both
offsets and proves the mirroring paths run, while a new browser scenario
measures the user-visible fact against the built client with a DOM Range
over the backdrop's own text — after a wheel gesture over a 40-line draft
the last line is on screen and the first has scrolled out. Confirmed both
directions: with the mirroring reverted and the packages rebuilt, the
golden reads `last draft line is on screen: false` while `textarea moved:
true`.
2026-07-31 11:53:04 +08:00
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## At the start of the draft
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- draft overflows the capped box: true
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- visible lines: 14
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fix(web): bind the composer's caret to its glyphs with one scrollport
The composer paints its draft in two layers — the textarea owns the value,
the selection and the caret, the backdrop paints every visible glyph — and
they had one scroll offset each, kept equal by a `scroll` listener. That
holds at rest and not in motion: a wheel gesture scrolls the textarea on the
compositor, the listener runs afterwards, and for those frames the caret sits
at the new offset with the words at the old one. Measured on a harness of the
same geometry, a 200px offset change separates caret from glyphs by ~200px
(chromium 203, firefox 202, WebKit 203) until a later frame — the caret
flying out of its own text when a user swipes a long draft quickly.
Both layers now ride one scrollport: `[data-input-scroll]` carries the
14-line cap, the auto-grow stack inside it is as tall as the whole draft, and
the textarea holds no scrollable overflow of its own. The browser applies one
offset to both layers in the same frame, so the coupling is structural rather
than maintained. The backdrop's trailing-line sentinel and the cross-engine
wrap-width premise go with the mirror: the layers now share a containing
block, which closes the WebKit 768-against-776 gap by construction.
2026-07-31 15:25:29 +08:00
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- the textarea holds no scroll offset of its own: true
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2026-07-31 13:13:50 +08:00
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- all three layers wrap at one width: true
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fix(web): bind the composer's caret to its glyphs with one scrollport
The composer paints its draft in two layers — the textarea owns the value,
the selection and the caret, the backdrop paints every visible glyph — and
they had one scroll offset each, kept equal by a `scroll` listener. That
holds at rest and not in motion: a wheel gesture scrolls the textarea on the
compositor, the listener runs afterwards, and for those frames the caret sits
at the new offset with the words at the old one. Measured on a harness of the
same geometry, a 200px offset change separates caret from glyphs by ~200px
(chromium 203, firefox 202, WebKit 203) until a later frame — the caret
flying out of its own text when a user swipes a long draft quickly.
Both layers now ride one scrollport: `[data-input-scroll]` carries the
14-line cap, the auto-grow stack inside it is as tall as the whole draft, and
the textarea holds no scrollable overflow of its own. The browser applies one
offset to both layers in the same frame, so the coupling is structural rather
than maintained. The backdrop's trailing-line sentinel and the cross-engine
wrap-width premise go with the mirror: the layers now share a containing
block, which closes the WebKit 768-against-776 gap by construction.
2026-07-31 15:25:29 +08:00
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- scroll offset: 0px
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- caret and glyphs stay level when the offset changes: true
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fix(web): scroll the composer's glyph layer with its textarea
A composer draft past the 14-line cap could not be scrolled: the caret and
the selection moved, but the words stayed frozen at line 1, so the tail of
anything longer than the cap was unreachable while writing it.
The composer paints its text in two stacked layers. The textarea owns the
value, the selection and the caret but renders its own glyphs transparent;
every visible character is painted by the decoration backdrop beneath it,
which also carries the claim-token highlight, the chips and the ghost hint.
The backdrop is `inset: 0; overflow: hidden` — clipped, not scrolled — and
nothing linked its offset to the textarea's. Below the cap both layers rest
at 0, which is why the defect hid behind every short-draft screenshot and
fixture.
InputBar now mirrors the textarea's scrollTop onto the backdrop, from a
`scroll` listener (every gesture and every caret-driven scroll) and from a
layout effect keyed on the committed draft (an edit reflows both layers
without necessarily firing a scroll event).
Scrolling is layout, so jsdom cannot show this: the unit spec stubs both
offsets and proves the mirroring paths run, while a new browser scenario
measures the user-visible fact against the built client with a DOM Range
over the backdrop's own text — after a wheel gesture over a 40-line draft
the last line is on screen and the first has scrolled out. Confirmed both
directions: with the mirroring reverted and the packages rebuilt, the
golden reads `last draft line is on screen: false` while `textarea moved:
true`.
2026-07-31 11:53:04 +08:00
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- first draft line is on screen: true
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- last draft line is on screen: false
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## Scrolled to the end of the draft
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fix(web): bind the composer's caret to its glyphs with one scrollport
The composer paints its draft in two layers — the textarea owns the value,
the selection and the caret, the backdrop paints every visible glyph — and
they had one scroll offset each, kept equal by a `scroll` listener. That
holds at rest and not in motion: a wheel gesture scrolls the textarea on the
compositor, the listener runs afterwards, and for those frames the caret sits
at the new offset with the words at the old one. Measured on a harness of the
same geometry, a 200px offset change separates caret from glyphs by ~200px
(chromium 203, firefox 202, WebKit 203) until a later frame — the caret
flying out of its own text when a user swipes a long draft quickly.
Both layers now ride one scrollport: `[data-input-scroll]` carries the
14-line cap, the auto-grow stack inside it is as tall as the whole draft, and
the textarea holds no scrollable overflow of its own. The browser applies one
offset to both layers in the same frame, so the coupling is structural rather
than maintained. The backdrop's trailing-line sentinel and the cross-engine
wrap-width premise go with the mirror: the layers now share a containing
block, which closes the WebKit 768-against-776 gap by construction.
2026-07-31 15:25:29 +08:00
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- offset moved: true
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- caret sits on its own glyphs: true
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- caret and glyphs stay level when the offset changes: true
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fix(web): scroll the composer's glyph layer with its textarea
A composer draft past the 14-line cap could not be scrolled: the caret and
the selection moved, but the words stayed frozen at line 1, so the tail of
anything longer than the cap was unreachable while writing it.
The composer paints its text in two stacked layers. The textarea owns the
value, the selection and the caret but renders its own glyphs transparent;
every visible character is painted by the decoration backdrop beneath it,
which also carries the claim-token highlight, the chips and the ghost hint.
The backdrop is `inset: 0; overflow: hidden` — clipped, not scrolled — and
nothing linked its offset to the textarea's. Below the cap both layers rest
at 0, which is why the defect hid behind every short-draft screenshot and
fixture.
InputBar now mirrors the textarea's scrollTop onto the backdrop, from a
`scroll` listener (every gesture and every caret-driven scroll) and from a
layout effect keyed on the committed draft (an edit reflows both layers
without necessarily firing a scroll event).
Scrolling is layout, so jsdom cannot show this: the unit spec stubs both
offsets and proves the mirroring paths run, while a new browser scenario
measures the user-visible fact against the built client with a DOM Range
over the backdrop's own text — after a wheel gesture over a 40-line draft
the last line is on screen and the first has scrolled out. Confirmed both
directions: with the mirroring reverted and the packages rebuilt, the
golden reads `last draft line is on screen: false` while `textarea moved:
true`.
2026-07-31 11:53:04 +08:00
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- first draft line has scrolled out above: true
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- last draft line is on screen: true
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fix(web): give the backdrop the trailing-line sentinel so the layers share one extent
Review caught a real divergence the earlier measurements missed: mirroring
an offset is only correct while both layers can reach it, and for a draft
ending in a newline the backdrop could not.
A textarea reserves a line box for the caret after a final newline.
`white-space: pre-wrap` collapses a text node's trailing newline and
generates none. So a draft ending in a newline made the backdrop exactly one
line shorter than the textarea — measured 628 against 652 — and the mirrored
assignment clamped, leaving the glyphs one line behind the caret at the very
bottom of the draft.
The backdrop now carries the same trailing-line sentinel the mirror div has
carried all along: its content is the decoration walk plus one newline. The
same pre-wrap collapse absorbs it when the draft does not end in a newline,
so it costs no height in the ordinary case, and it supplies the missing line
box when it does. Verified in isolation first: a bare pre-wrap div measures
180/180/198 against a textarea's 180/198/216 for zero, one and two trailing
newlines, and 180/198/216 with the sentinel.
Coverage for the shape that exposed it: the browser scenario asserts the two
extents are equal before asserting the glyphs reach the end, observing each
layer's maximum by asking for an impossible offset and reading back the
clamp rather than computing it from scrollHeight, and the golden records the
relation. The unit spec pins the backdrop's text as the draft plus exactly
one newline. Removing the sentinel fails both, the e2e with the same 628
against 652.
The scrollbar-gutter half of the same review point does not reproduce here:
both layers measure clientWidth 776 against a border box of 776 while the
draft overflows, so this engine's textarea scrollbar is an overlay and takes
no width out of the wrap.
2026-07-31 12:12:54 +08:00
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## Draft ending in a newline, scrolled to the end
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fix(web): bind the composer's caret to its glyphs with one scrollport
The composer paints its draft in two layers — the textarea owns the value,
the selection and the caret, the backdrop paints every visible glyph — and
they had one scroll offset each, kept equal by a `scroll` listener. That
holds at rest and not in motion: a wheel gesture scrolls the textarea on the
compositor, the listener runs afterwards, and for those frames the caret sits
at the new offset with the words at the old one. Measured on a harness of the
same geometry, a 200px offset change separates caret from glyphs by ~200px
(chromium 203, firefox 202, WebKit 203) until a later frame — the caret
flying out of its own text when a user swipes a long draft quickly.
Both layers now ride one scrollport: `[data-input-scroll]` carries the
14-line cap, the auto-grow stack inside it is as tall as the whole draft, and
the textarea holds no scrollable overflow of its own. The browser applies one
offset to both layers in the same frame, so the coupling is structural rather
than maintained. The backdrop's trailing-line sentinel and the cross-engine
wrap-width premise go with the mirror: the layers now share a containing
block, which closes the WebKit 768-against-776 gap by construction.
2026-07-31 15:25:29 +08:00
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- caret sits on its own glyphs: true
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- the draft's own last line is on screen: true
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2026-07-31 16:07:55 +08:00
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## Right after pasting a long block at the end
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- the composer scrolled to the caret it left: true
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- caret and glyphs stay level when the offset changes: true
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- the pasted block's last line is on screen: true
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