feat(email): polish thread layout and keyboard UX - #6038
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Match Gmail’s middle truncation and land at the visual top instead of auto-scrolling. Collapsed rows scan as a name / preview / date grid, and keyboard focus uses the same list fill as inbox. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The expand chip should keep the same edge as before, and collapsed dates should show the full timestamp on hover like open cards. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Use a normal column so load starts at the top, let header clicks collapse even the newest card, and drop expand/collapse scroll compensation. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Give every message its own bordered card and a comment-style focus shadow, instead of a flush stacked list. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The control already shows its label, so the tooltip was redundant and the full-width ghost wash clashed with the text chip. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
A slightly darker outline marks the active card without boxing every open message. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Disable overflow anchoring so opening a message grows down, then scroll only if the open card would be clipped. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Stop outdenting cards below 816px so mobile and tablet keep a side gutter, and drop the radius clamp that squared corners. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
After reply and collapse, Escape drops the focused card so the rail and shadow only show when something is selected. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Instant jumps felt harsh; match keyboard navigation when the list has to move. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Down and Up scroll the focused message while it overflows, then nearest-align the next card only if it is offscreen. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Keyboard and deep links still walked hidden middle rows, and bg-message stayed at the panel color because Layer remapped lift but not --color-message. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Older lazy-loaded messages were shoving the card you were reading. Deep links now land that card at the top. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Negative outdent was pulling cards past the title gutter. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Island cards already separate the header from the first message. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Rail reads too heavy on island cards. Edge sits between idle muted and the thread path. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Arrow keys treat the expand control as a list stop, and selected uses the same wash as a channel cursor so it does not linger after you leave. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Enter on the chip was clearing selection. Land on the first revealed card so Arrow can keep walking. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Up on the oldest message was a no-op when the title sat above the viewport. Page to the top first, then clear selection. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The one-line grid left almost no room for the preview on a phone-width card. Name and date stay on the first row; the snippet gets two lines underneath. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Replace the next/prev helper chain with a shown-stop sequence so Arrow keys share one reading order. Name collapsed-row slots instead of child indexes. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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WalkthroughThe thread view now displays messages in chronological order and collapses truncated middle messages behind a hidden-message control. New utilities manage message expansion, visible navigation stops, alignment, post-layout reveals, and pagination scroll preservation. Keyboard navigation handles titles, messages, the hidden control, and the composer. Message rows and headers use responsive layouts, date tooltips, updated focus states, and filtered click handling. Expansion and container-loading logic no longer performs scroll compensation or height-based auto-fetching. Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR changes thread layout and keyboard behavior, but Tab-focused message rows may lack a visible focus indicator, and the current head still has a reported CSS lint error; scrolling and touch-mode transitions also have bounded edge cases. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@apps/web/src/features/block-email/component/Email.tsx`:
- Around line 317-319: Update the ArrowUp handling around scrollToListStartDelta
and context.messages.setFocused so message focus is cleared before any early
return from animateListScroll when startDelta is nonzero, ensuring navigation
from the title does not retain the previously focused card.
In `@apps/web/src/features/block-email/component/EmailContext.tsx`:
- Around line 827-828: Update the message-list pagination flow around hasMore()
and the scroll container dimensions so pages are fetched even when the initial
content has scrollHeight <= clientHeight and user scrolling cannot trigger
fetchNextPage(). Add an initial no-overflow pagination path or explicit control,
and add a regression test covering this case.
In `@apps/web/src/index.css`:
- Line 933: Update the macro-thread-collapsed-row utility block so it conforms
to the project’s configured Stylelint parser and rules: replace unsupported
`@utility` usage and invalid nesting/declarations with the established Tailwind
nesting syntax, or apply the file’s supported parser and at-rule configuration.
Preserve the utility’s intended styling behavior.
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Clear card focus before paging to the title so ArrowDown re-enters the oldest card. Fetch the next page when the collapsed first page does not overflow, and keep the newest cards on screen after that prepend. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Hover washed through the full-width divider. Use the outline button and flank it with separate left and right rules so the line never sits under the label. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The thin edge shadow was hard to see, and bg-message won over bg-hover when both were set. Selected collapsed and open cards now use only the hover fill. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Use the darker edge border alone so selection does not lift the card. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Keyboard selection takes over from the hovered row, then clears on pointer movement so hover can return. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Hover at 3% ink disappears on dark surfaces, so selected and hovered cards use bg-active instead. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Keep the hover-nav helpers passing ci --error-on-warnings. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The element picker briefly reports a fine pointer, which was dropping the app out of touch layout while emulating a device. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Keep the message fill. A 1px outline avoids hairline radius aliasing, and the hidden-messages row can grow on touch. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The 20% mix was too shy on the selected-card outline. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Keep the muted border on rows and limit hover to the light-mode shadow. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Touch panels were depth 0, so bg-message matched bg-panel and message cards lost their elevated fill. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Ticket: missing Jira. Macro task 01a03a0f-447c-7ff0-a507-79d82dfb5024. Spec is PR test plan. Same work as #6004.
Inline issue: adjustScrollAfterPrepend jumps when first page does not overflow. Title-on-open spec. Still fetch older pages. Do not reopen Cam pagination thread as a fetch question.
Settled: CodeRabbit title-nav and @Utility. Cam self-review questions left as-is. Shadow vs rail is later commit vs stale plan: not an issue.
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FE-12: async/await with try/catch, not .then() chains. fetchOlderMessages:203. Oxlint prefer-await-to-then is named but this SHA still passed GitHub checks.
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Stay at the list start when previousScrollTop is 0, even if the first page did not overflow, so opening a long thread does not jump off the title. Co-authored-by: Cameron Pak <cameronandrewpak@gmail.com>
Replace the Promise.then chain with async/await and try/catch. Call sites keep an explicit void so the helper stays fire-and-forget. Co-authored-by: Cameron Pak <cameronandrewpak@gmail.com>
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In `@apps/web/src/features/block-email/component/MessageList.tsx`:
- Around line 195-198: Update the row focus handling around isFocused and both
focusable row variants so keyboard Tab navigation retains a visible focus
indicator. Either add focus-visible styling to both row variants despite
outline-none, or stop requiring keyboardSelecting before applying the
focused-row state; preserve the existing arrow-key navigation behavior.
In `@apps/web/src/features/block-email/util/scrollToMessage.ts`:
- Line 205: Update the callback invoking adjustScrollAfterPrepend to pass the
live list.scrollTop value after fetchNextPage completes instead of the stale
previousScrollTop captured before the await. Add a regression test that changes
scrollTop while the fetch is pending and verifies the animation-frame callback
preserves the updated position.
In `@apps/web/src/lib/core/mobile/isTouchDevice.ts`:
- Around line 14-18: Update the coarsePointerQuery change handler in
isTouchDevice.ts to call setTouchFirst with the current event.matches value,
handling both coarse and fine pointer transitions so touchFirst reflects the
media-query state.
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Scope touch card elevation to the message list layer, restore split-panel depth and deep-link context loading, and clean up unused edge-active plus date helpers. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Use live scrollTop after older-page fetch and add focus-visible rings for Tab navigation on message cards. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Align collapsed and expanded header height, show the header toggle on touch, and remove extra body top spacing from markdown paragraphs. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Use scroll-padding on the message list, throttle smooth arrow-key paging, reveal clipped short cards into view, scroll to the list bottom from the last message, and skip reveal on tall messages so down-arrow can advance. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Add scroll-behavior and prefers-reduced-motion handling on the message list, cap keyboard scroll timing at 250ms, and use explicit transition durations on thread chrome. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Simplifying and improving the UI and UX of the email threads experience. Walkthrough at https://video.cpak.me/s/hrc2gh7rrste14b
Same work as #6004, refiled from this repo so CI can run. Head is
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