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hCaptcha: challenge can be obscured by header menu
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Description

What is the problem?

The hCaptcha challenge can be obscured by the header menu on Vector, especially on smaller screens.

Environment

Browser: Firefox 140.
Wiki(s): local docker ConfirmEdit 1.6.0 (357d139) 08:06, 10 November 2025.

Screenshots

overlap.png (645×1 px, 273 KB)

overlap2.png (638×1 px, 379 KB)

Event Timeline

This banner has been removed on Vector recently, @dom_walden , I think it should not be causing issues anymore. Can you re-test it?

The second screenshot shows a banner that still exists, so while it probably makes sense to retest this I suspect the second example is still an issue

This banner has been removed on Vector recently, @dom_walden , I think it should not be causing issues anymore. Can you re-test it?

As @Dreamy_Jazz says, the second issue still occurs (and now effects temporary users as well).

I guess this is part of a broader issue that:

  • we don't control the size of the hCaptcha challenge (and it can vary quite widely)
  • users don't have a way to resize or move the challenge (that I have found so far)

and so the challenge can easily be cut off for some users depending on the size of their screen, how much zoom, etc.

Perhaps if we can solve one or both of the above issues we could fix this more generally.