Special:Search requires ugly horizontal scroll on mobile
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	simon04
	Nov 1 2021, 9:45 PM

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Open https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced in responsive design mode (360x800px)

What happens?:
The box "Search in namespaces" is wider than the viewport and causes a horizontal scrollbar to appear.

What should have happened instead?:
No scrollbar or scrollbar only for the box "Search in namespaces".

Software version (if not a Wikimedia wiki), browser information, screenshots, other information, etc:

Screen Shot 2021-11-01 at 22.42.02.png (3×1 px, 231 KB)

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Special:Search Change namespace selector layout to fix ugly scroll on mobile web	mediawiki/core	master	+21 -27

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Mentioned In: T300452: Feature request: make namespace search available on mobile.

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simon04 created this task.Nov 1 2021, 9:45 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptNov 1 2021, 9:45 PM

Jdlrobson edited projects, added MediaWiki-Search, MinervaNeue (Tracking); removed MinervaNeue.Nov 1 2021, 9:55 PM

Restricted Application added a project: Discovery-Search. · View Herald TranscriptNov 1 2021, 9:55 PM

Jdlrobson added a project: Advanced-Search.Nov 1 2021, 9:55 PM

• MPhamWMF moved this task from needs triage to Current work on the Discovery-Search board.Nov 15 2021, 4:26 PM

• MPhamWMF edited projects, added Discovery-Search (Current work); removed Discovery-Search.

• MPhamWMF moved this task from Current work to needs triage on the Discovery-Search board.

• MPhamWMF edited projects, added Discovery-Search; removed Discovery-Search (Current work).

• MPhamWMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 29 2021, 6:02 PM

• MPhamWMF moved this task from needs triage to UI tickets on the Discovery-Search board.

A few notes from discussion with @Jdrewniak:

we could use fixed table layout: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/table-layout
the same page can be viewed in the vector skin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&useskinversion=2&useskin=vector
any change needs to work in both vector and minerva
we could convert from a table layout to something else, maybe CSS columns: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/columns

Advanced-Search currently doesn't target the MobileFrontend a.k.a. MinervaNeue. What I can see in the screenshot is the core experience. I might be wrong. If this is meant to be about Advanced-Search a separate ticket can help making it easier to track this.

Change 747983 had a related patch set uploaded (by EJoseph; author: EJoseph):

[mediawiki/core@master] Special:Search requires ugly horizontal scroll on mobile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/747983

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 17 2021, 12:41 AM

Change 747983 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Special:Search Change namespace selector layout to fix ugly scroll on mobile web

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/747983

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.18; 2022-01-17).Jan 11 2022, 6:00 PM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 11 2022, 6:11 PM

Pelagic mentioned this in T300452: Feature request: make namespace search available on mobile..Jan 30 2022, 4:45 AM

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