Little Outliner - body text moves as 'breadcrumb' path wraps to extra lines
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is identified. Start by reproducing the attached GIF behavior in Little Outliner while navigating with the mouse, then trace the outline display library and browser wrapping behavior; done means the body text no longer jumps unpredictably as the breadcrumb path changes.
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Description
When navigating an outline with the mouse, it can be hard to consistently target the correct level on the first click since the body text moves to accommodate the changing size of the 'breadcrumb' header.
See attached animated gif (mirror) for an example:
If you are several pages down in the outline, the cause is not even necessarily obvious to the user; they just notice that their text keeps jumping around while they navigate.
This is likely not specific to LO, but to the underlining outline display library (of which I can't remember the name at this moment)
I'm not sure what the best fix would be (and I have no idea how much information JS has about how the browser is wrapping lines of text).
Brainstorming:
- If the outline position changed due to the mouse and it is necessary to change the number of lines of the heading, delay updating the heading for some period of time (e.g. 0.5-3 seconds)
- Always reserve at least 2(?) lines of space for the heading as long as the window is at least a certain size
- Truncate to a single line
- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 134
- Forks
- 10
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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