Last modified: 2014-10-13 15:04:05 UTC
Created attachment 16425 [details] Screenshot showing text entered into the search field on Wikidata.org The element #searchInput appears below #simpleSearch instead of layered on top of #simpleSearch. This makes it difficult to search as the search bar appears to not work unless you click just below it. I've attached a screenshot of the issue that might explain it better than I did. Problem appears to have appeared sometime in the last day or two. I can't see anything in the CSS that may have caused the problem, but I also only gave it a cursory glance. I am using Firefox 32.0.
Also confirming for Firefox 31 and Chrome 37 on wikidata.org.
This is caused by the custom Search-Gadget. See also https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-Search.js#Misplacing_search_box
At the moment of writing, I can reproduce the broken behaviour in Chrome, though not in Firefox. The "Improved search" gadget toggler causes the search input to be misplaced. "position: absolute;" on the toggler seems to fix the problem. Alternatively, "position: absolute; left: 0;" on the search input would fix the problem as well, but I guess the first solution would be the more appropriate.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-Search.js#Misplacing_search_box says it's been worked around. Not sure if there is anything to do in the Wikidata codebases or if this is entirely on-wiki code to handle (and hence INVALID here in Bugzilla)?
