Fix display name and date alignment #14304

luacmartins · 2023-01-13T21:37:57Z

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Fix the display name and date alignments

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$ #14269

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Verify that the display name and date are aligned at the bottom of the text

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Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-15T17:49:44Z

@Expensify/design or @shawnborton does it looks as expected?

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Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-15T17:50:26Z

@luacmartins PR Screenshots are not loading can you check?

shawnborton · 2023-01-15T18:52:12Z

src/styles/styles.js

        lineHeight: variables.lineHeightXLarge,
+        paddingBottom: 4,


I think we want to get rid of the padding bottom. However, for image attachments, if the image attachment is the first thing in the message group (it comes right after the sender name) we should give it some top margin of say 4-8px.

I just read the Slack thread linked to the issue and it seems like we also want to do some cleanup on the negative margins used for the message text, as well as add some padding for images. I'll add that to this PR.

That being said, I'm having issues aligning the sender name & date at the baseline. alignItems: 'baseline' is supported in RN and works well on browsers, but the Pressable component wrapping the sender name text is throwing off the alignment on iOS/android native since it's baseline is different from the text baseline. Here's how they behave:

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android

I've spent some time trying to work around this issue, but no luck so far. Any suggestions?

Take a look at the discussion from this one: #14148

We actually learned that baseline doesn't always work on Android so we might want to avoid that.

There was a proposal that seemed to fix the alignment by always making sure the big text (sender) and small text (timestamp) had the same lineheight and height. So maybe we could try that first?

So after seeing this, it does feel like the sender is too close to the message, but maybe that's because the negative margin is still there. So let me know once you start playing around with that stuff too.

There was a proposal that seemed to fix the alignment by always making sure the big text (sender) and small text (timestamp) had the same lineheight and height. So maybe we could try that first?

I tried this and the other solutions in that issue but none of them seem to work. Maybe I'm holding something wrong?

I'd appreciate any other suggestions as I'm struggling to find a solution that doesn't add any padding/margins to the text.

@shawnborton I updated the branch with the following:

Added lineHeight: 20px to the senders name and removed the bottom padding

Added lineHeight: 16px and paddingTop: 4px to the timestamp

Now the header + single line message sums up to 40px and both seem to be aligned at the baseline:

In addition, I removed the negative margin from chatItemMessage and added a conditional 8px top margin to attachments when displayed with the header:

Let me know what you think!

@aneequeahmad let's see what @shawnborton says about my changes above!

That feels pretty great to me! Thanks for pushing through this one and getting to a good solution!

@luacmartins Code changes looks good to me too. That's a pretty neat solution. @shawnborton Thank-you for your suggestion.

Thank you both for the help!

MariaHCD

Fixed the screenshots in the OP :) The padding bottom does look a bit too much in @Santhosh-Sellavel's screenshots but it looks fine when I tested locally on:

Web:

Desktop:

MariaHCD

LGTM!

luacmartins · 2023-01-24T16:22:29Z

@Santhosh-Sellavel all yours for review!

Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-24T18:10:22Z

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The latest screenshots does it looks good? cc: @shawnborton @luacmartins @MariaHCD

Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-24T18:11:19Z

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Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-24T19:27:30Z

@luacmartins Can you update the latest screenshots in the PR?

luacmartins · 2023-01-24T20:21:26Z

@Santhosh-Sellavel done!

Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-24T20:52:39Z

@luacmartins have you checked this #14304 (comment)?

Seem still something is off to me, is it just to me?

Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-24T20:53:11Z

I'll test again tomorrow!

shawnborton · 2023-01-25T09:24:27Z

Hmm yeah, based on those screenshots, it does look like the timestamp sits below the sender:

aneequeahmad · 2023-01-25T12:01:11Z

@shawnborton I just checked this branch it seems fine at my end. Strange.

shawnborton · 2023-01-25T21:34:14Z

Hmm @Santhosh-Sellavel any idea what's causing this?

It seems like between this issue and the other alignment issue, we're getting a lot of inconsistencies in various platforms/screenshots.

luacmartins · 2023-01-25T23:22:18Z

hmm I'm seeing a small alignment issue on mWeb Chrome and Safari 🤔 Not sure what's causing it yet.

aneequeahmad · 2023-01-26T00:11:03Z

@luacmartins i just debugged and fixed the issue. Actually there is not need to add lineHeight and need to reduce paddingTop: 4 to paddingTop: 2.

Also verified it doesn't cause regression on Web.

cc: @shawnborton

Code Changes:

     chatItemMessageHeaderTimestamp: {
         flexShrink: 0,
         color: themeColors.textSupporting,
         fontSize: variables.fontSizeSmall,
-        paddingTop: 4,
-        lineHeight: variables.lineHeightNormal,
+        paddingTop: 2,
     },

Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-26T18:58:54Z

@luacmartins

I find all platforms are off, i.e compare this screenshots with screenshots in the PR description.

@MariaHCD Can you post what you see on Web & Desktop?

Honestly, I'm confused about what's happening here, before worrying about Inconsistent between platforms, there is an inconsistency between author screenshots & reviewer screenshots 😕 .

cc: @shawnborton

luacmartins · 2023-01-27T00:15:37Z

I updated the PR and screenshots using this suggestion. Ready for another review!

shawnborton · 2023-01-27T08:53:25Z

That feels pretty good to me. It might not be perfectly baseline aligned, but I think it's a good improvement and it feels consistent across platforms.

MariaHCD

LGTM. Tested on web and desktop:

Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-27T21:52:24Z

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![Simulator Screen Shot - iPhone 14 - 2023-01-28 at 03 28 27](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/85645967/215210821-fa1b7175-9dea-4555-af1e-cd6a5439eb12.png)

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Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-27T22:09:12Z

Here are new screenshots can you confirm this looks @shawnborton @luacmartins

shawnborton · 2023-01-30T09:04:37Z

Yup, this feels pretty good to me!

luacmartins · 2023-01-30T17:45:30Z

@Santhosh-Sellavel seems like this looks good now. Can you complete the checklist please?

Santhosh-Sellavel · 2023-01-30T19:52:45Z

Yes will do!

Santhosh-Sellavel

LGTM thanks, everyone!

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[HOLD for payment 2023-02-08] Chat - Sender name and timestamp are not aligned at baseline #14269

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[$1000] Baseline of the recipient name and message preview do not line up in LHN #14148

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