Table of contents reflows when loading
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The table of contents when loaded on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Township,_Peoria_County,_Illinois causes the first heading to jump down like so:

This is a performance issue as it requires an unnecessary re-rendering of the entire page layout and can be a nuisance to users by impacting scroll behaviour position.

Luckily it should be relatively straightforward to address.

Details

	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue	master	+24 -5	Table of contents should not trigger reflows in layout

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Event Timeline

Jdlrobson created this task.Nov 25 2020, 8:06 PM

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Change 643542 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; owner: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Table of contents should not trigger reflows in layout

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/643542

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 25 2020, 8:06 PM

Test wiki created on Patch Demo by GDubuc (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task:

http://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/cc7c44b42093adb07e8c5c3a34aeab1c/w/

Jdlrobson added a project: Readers-Web-Backlog.Dec 2 2020, 4:35 PM

Jdlrobson assigned this task to ovasileva.Dec 10 2020, 7:54 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Needs Prioritization on the Readers-Web-Backlog board.

ovasileva triaged this task as Medium priority.Jan 18 2021, 10:31 PM

ovasileva moved this task from Needs Prioritization to Triaged but Future on the Readers-Web-Backlog board.

Test wiki created on Patch Demo by GDubuc (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task:

http://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/ddbe31f407db16214ed56e1451e11c0a/w/

Jdlrobson moved this task from Triaged but Future to Needs Prioritization on the Readers-Web-Backlog board.Jan 21 2021, 9:16 PM