keyboard selector hiding site id input
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The keyboard selector is hiding the site id input when adding a new sitelink. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_bug,_Overlapped_drop-downs.png shows the issue.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Added "noime" class to site id input	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	wmf/1.25wmf16	+8 -5
	Added "noime" class to site id input	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	master	+8 -5

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Resolved	Snaterlicious	T88417 keyboard selector hiding site id input

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Lydia_Pintscher created this task.Feb 3 2015, 12:38 PM

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This should be an issue with every input element that features a suggestion / auto-completion mechanism (e.g. entityselector).

IME supplied by ULS places itself always below the input element--a different position is used only if there is not enough space below the input element.
See jquery.ime.js: IMESelector.prototype.position.

Technical alternatives:

Suppress IME on every input element that features a suggestion / auto-completion mechanism applying "noime" CSS class to those elements.
Have IME provide an option that allows specifying preferred position(s)...
- ... by adjusting ULS IME code or having the ULS IME code adjusted.
- ... by overriding ULS IME code in Wikibase.

class="noime" is an option? Nice. This should be applied to all input elements where the user does not need to type non-ASCII characters. Unfortunately this is not the case here. But it's an intermediate solution. I suggest to do it.

Yes. Let's try class="noime" for now on the siteid input field.

@Amire80: do you have a better solution for the future for this?

Snaterlicious moved this task from Backlog to Review on the § Wikidata-Sprint-2015-02-03 board.Feb 11 2015, 9:51 AM