**Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable):
* On MetaWiki, go to any translatable page
* Click Translate this page
* Click on any segment
* Start typing a parenthesis but do not close it or save the segment
(After you see what happens please delete the parenthesis and cancel your change.)
**What happens?**:
* Observation: After 3 seconds, the “Publish translation” and “Skip to next” buttons, as well as the text field for the commit message, are pushed down one line
* Significance: If the translator at this point closes the parenthesis *and* then tries to write a commit message, the segment is saved with no commit message
**What should have happened instead?**:
The position of important UI elements should not move. There are two ways I can see that can achieve this:
1. Reserve a blank line where the warning is currently displayed. The blank line stays visible but blank (e.g., visibility: hidden or content: "") until a warning is displayed. The warning thus takes up a fixed amount of space and would not push UI elements down.
2. Move the warning to *below* the Publish and Skip buttons so that when the warning is added/removed these buttons will not move.
Option 2 is probably the better solution, since Option 1 might not be compatible with some languages.
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Note: it was suggested that I filed this as a feature request, but this is technically a bug, since it is an accessibility issue and actually *causes* user errors.
Original discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#c-Quiddity_%28WMF%29-20221104232700-Al12si-20221104224200