Microsoft/vscode

Verbose Hover: Hover jumps when there is not enough space

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#211,063 opened on Apr 23, 2024

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Description

Testing #210904

When the hover grows and there is no more space at the top of the window the hover jumps to be displayed below the line for which the hover is provided. I'm not sure if there is a simple way to solve this problem, but the user experience would be much nicer if this would not happen.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/assets/44439583/281aa55d-bf45-4757-8a4f-1f07c908e665

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Research direction
Investigate the hover widget positioning logic in VS Code's hover provider. Look at the code that calculates whether there is enough space above the hover and how it decides to display below.
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typescriptjavascript
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frontend
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