The CAPTCHA only displays at that link while logged out. A comparison screenshot here would be helpful.

Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:

Screenshot showing excess white space between captcha and refresh link

Per request - I've selected the captcha so that you can see where it ends and gap between it and the refresh link.

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The CAPTCHAs vary in height. I put a min-height of 95 (which seems to be a close upper bound) to accomplish two goals:

1. Don't scale or skew the CAPTCHA. We don't want to make it even less readable.
2. Don't have the move jump vertically when they ask for a new CAPTCHA.

If this seems to be worse than jumping, we could look at removing the min-height. Or, we could change the CAPTCHA generation script to output fixed height images (a bigger project).

swalling wrote:

I think https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/61155/ will address this?

No, that's just to avoid splitting the reload text and reload image. This is about the whitespace in the CAPTCHA

See also bug 47713

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62191 (Gerrit Change I57be0b)

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62542 (Gerrit Change I003c5f)

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64203 (Gerrit Change I003c5f)

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64250 (Gerrit Change I003c5f)

E3 requesting backport to wmf4 (only) with gerrit change 64250 so this change to the new Create account form can accompany the wmf4 roll-out. Low-risk since the new forms are opt-in.

Backport like bug 47801

Fix is backported to wmf4. The captcha is a little closer because it's inside the fancycaptcha-image-container, whose min-height we set to 95 so the rest of the form doesn't (well, rarely) shift up and down each time you refresh the captcha image.