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fix(web): picking a sidebar search result scrolls the list to that thread - #27109
Picking a thread from the sidebar search with the mouse opens it but leaves the sidebar where it was, so the selected row stays out of view. Two things undo the scroll to the open thread:
A click focuses the result button. Picking clears the search, which unmounts that button, so focus falls back to the workspace. Its recovery focuses the sidebar tree's tab stop, which is still the previously open thread, and scrolls the list back to it. The result now prevents focus on pointer down, so focus stays in the search box, as it does when Enter picks. The opened thread then focuses its composer as usual.
When the search clears, the thread list mounts again and scrolls to the open row before any row has rendered, so every row still has its contain-intrinsic-size hint. Card rows without a meta line hint 58px, which comes to 62px with the row's py-0.5, but they render at 64px. The scroll lands 2px short for each such row above the thread. With 23 rows above a Settled thread, it came up 46px short and the 36px row stayed below the fold. The hint is now 60px. The hint for card rows with a meta line (78px, 82px with padding) already matched.
Both changes are needed for this one problem. With only the first, the list scrolls but the picked row can stay below the fold. With only the second, the focus recovery still scrolls the list away.
This is submitted as a small fix for an obvious bug: one event handler and one size hint, with no change to search, ranking or the reveal logic.
Verification
SidebarThreadRow.browser.test.tsx (new) clicks a result while the search box has focus and expects focus to stay in the box. It fails on main, where focus lands on the result, and passes on this branch.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), tests and React compiler pass.
Real web app (vp run dev, isolated replay data), Helium at a 1192×969 viewport. Fresh load with Gamma task 20 open at the top of the list, search "beta task 10", then click Beta task 10, a Settled thread already in the list:
main: the list stays at scrollTop 2. The Beta task 10 row sits at 1626px, below the list's bottom edge at 929px.
Focus change alone: the list scrolls to 689 and the row sits at 939 to 975px, still just below the fold.
This branch: the list scrolls to 735 and the row sits at 893 to 929px, in view and selected. Focus moves to its composer.
Picking with Enter lands the same way on this branch. On main, Enter scrolled but also landed short (Gamma task 06 ended 30px below the fold).
Picking Beta task 10 with the mouse from the command palette also lands at 893 to 929px on this branch.
An older Settled thread that the loaded shells omit (Alpha task 01) already came into view on main, because its row arrives after its family loads, past the focus recovery. It still does.
Before (main)
After
Web and desktop share this sidebar. Mobile renders its own thread list and has no DOM focus recovery, so it is unaffected. Slim and folder rows are a fixed 36px, which matches their hint. Not checked: two-line folder rows, the Electron desktop shell, Safari and Firefox.
Implementation and verification: Claude Opus 5.5 in the Claude Code harness, through T3 Code.
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A mouse pick focused the result, so closing the results dropped focus and
its recovery scrolled the list back to the previous thread. The result now
keeps focus in the search box, as Enter does.
Card rows without a meta line hinted 2px short of their rendered height,
so the reveal into the just-mounted list landed 2px short per row above
the thread and could leave it below the fold.
The sidebar changes adjust the size hint for rows without metadata and keep focus in the search box when a search result is selected.
Changes: Sidebar row sizing
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Summary
Adjust row size hint apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx
The size hint for rows without a metadata line changes from 58px to 60px. The general card hint remains 78px. Comments describe rendered heights and cumulative reveal offset.
Search-result focus
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Preserve search focus on selection apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.browser.test.tsx
Search-result buttons prevent the default pointer-down behavior. A browser test checks that selection calls onSelect once and leaves focus in the search box.
The sidebar changes have no established merge-blocking failure, though end-to-end reveal coverage remains limited.
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The new test protects only onPointerDown focus behavior. Its mock onSelect never clears the search results or navigates to the selected thread. The existing reveal test uses fixed-height rows, so it does not cover cumulative no-metadata row sizing. Add coverage that closes the results through the real selection path and asserts that the selected row remains in view.
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Extend the SidebarSearchResultRow browser test to exercise selection through the
real search-results close and navigation flow, rather than relying on a no-op
selection effect. Include rows without metadata so cumulative row sizing is
covered, then assert that the selected thread remains in view after selection.
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- Around line 1-44: Extend the SidebarSearchResultRow browser test to exercise
selection through the real search-results close and navigation flow, rather than
relying on a no-op selection effect. Include rows without metadata so cumulative
row sizing is covered, then assert that the selected thread remains in view
after selection.
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Picking a thread from the sidebar search with the mouse opens it but leaves the sidebar where it was, so the selected row stays out of view. Two things undo the scroll to the open thread:
contain-intrinsic-sizehint. Card rows without a meta line hint 58px, which comes to 62px with the row'spy-0.5, but they render at 64px. The scroll lands 2px short for each such row above the thread. With 23 rows above a Settled thread, it came up 46px short and the 36px row stayed below the fold. The hint is now 60px. The hint for card rows with a meta line (78px, 82px with padding) already matched.Both changes are needed for this one problem. With only the first, the list scrolls but the picked row can stay below the fold. With only the second, the focus recovery still scrolls the list away.
This is submitted as a small fix for an obvious bug: one event handler and one size hint, with no change to search, ranking or the reveal logic.
Verification
SidebarThreadRow.browser.test.tsx(new) clicks a result while the search box has focus and expects focus to stay in the box. It fails on main, where focus lands on the result, and passes on this branch.vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), tests and React compiler pass.vp run dev, isolated replay data), Helium at a 1192×969 viewport. Fresh load with Gamma task 20 open at the top of the list, search "beta task 10", then click Beta task 10, a Settled thread already in the list:Web and desktop share this sidebar. Mobile renders its own thread list and has no DOM focus recovery, so it is unaffected. Slim and folder rows are a fixed 36px, which matches their hint. Not checked: two-line folder rows, the Electron desktop shell, Safari and Firefox.
Implementation and verification: Claude Opus 5.5 in the Claude Code harness, through T3 Code.