feat: smarter placement and whole-window collapse for the evaluated value helper popup - #42128
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…alue popup The evaluated value helper popup could cover the very field being edited in wide forms (query/API/SMTP), because placement always used left-start plus a hardcoded '0, -290' offset correction. Placement is now chosen per field: left-start for fields on the right half of the viewport (property pane, unchanged), bottom-start with popper flip to top otherwise, so the popup never overlaps the focused field. The popup also gains a whole-window collapse: a title row with a toggle button shrinks it to a slim pill (with an error indicator when the binding has an evaluation error), persisted globally via localStorage. The title row is a direct-child <p> with the button nested inside so the Cypress locators that walk the popup's direct children keep resolving. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AnR8y2DBrfiXyBd8HYjksQ
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WalkthroughThe evaluated-value popup now persists collapse state, renders compact controls and error indicators, and selects placement from target geometry. Resize observers recalculate placement when the editor or popper target changes. Tests cover persistence, toggling, errors, and placement. ChangesEvaluated popup behavior
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to When the popup is first opened, it may retain a fallback left placement instead of recalculating from the field geometry, causing it to overlap the field and obscure text being edited; this bounded UI correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Editor
participant EvaluatedValuePopup
participant Popper
participant localStorage
Editor->>EvaluatedValuePopup: Provide target geometry
EvaluatedValuePopup->>localStorage: Load collapse preference
EvaluatedValuePopup->>Popper: Set anchor and placement
Editor->>EvaluatedValuePopup: Report editor resize
EvaluatedValuePopup->>Popper: Request placement update
Popper-->>EvaluatedValuePopup: Apply placement or flip
EvaluatedValuePopup-->>Editor: Render collapsed or expanded popup
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- Around line 750-757: Update the placement calculation around
getEvaluatedPopupPlacement so it runs after wrapperRef is assigned, rather than
relying on useMemo observing wrapperRef.current. Use a layout effect or callback
ref to recalculate placement when the popup is initially open, preserving the
fallback only while the wrapper is unavailable.
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CI showed bottom-start placement regresses tall editors (JS editor, multiline API params): with no viewport room below, popper pushes the popup back up over the code being edited (Linting/ErrorReporting_spec failures). Gate the new below-the-field placement to short fields (<= 60px, ~2 CodeMirror lines) — the case the original bug is about — and keep tall left-half editors on left-start as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AnR8y2DBrfiXyBd8HYjksQ
CodeEditor fields auto-grow as the user types multiline content, but the placement decision was computed once at open (a one-line field chooses below-the-field placement) and popper.js v1 never repositions on anchor resize — leaving the popup stranded over the field's grown lines (Linting/ErrorReporting_spec). Two changes: EvaluatedValuePopup observes the wrapper height and re-evaluates the short-vs-tall placement decision on growth, and the shared Popper schedules a popper update when its target resizes (skipped while a hand-dragged position is active, so the table filter panes keep their dragged spot). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AnR8y2DBrfiXyBd8HYjksQ
Regenerated on CI via ci-test-limited-with-count (update_snapshot=true, run 31756526997) against this branch's container. The pixel diff is the evaluated popup's new title row and collapse chevron; the popup position for this field is unchanged and the JSON body code is fully visible. Rendering was verified identical across two independent CI regenerations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AnR8y2DBrfiXyBd8HYjksQ
The popup's Wrapper div is height:100% of a fixed form row, so it never resizes when CodeMirror auto-grows — the editor overflows it. Both popper and the ResizeObserver were therefore tracking a stale one-line rect, leaving the popup stranded over the field's grown lines regardless of the earlier resize plumbing (run-4 ErrorReporting_spec failure, screenshot-verified geometry). Anchor and measure the Wrapper's first element child (the EditorWrapper that actually grows), falling back to the Wrapper when no child exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AnR8y2DBrfiXyBd8HYjksQ
Source-verified mechanism for the remaining ErrorReporting_spec overlap: with codeEditorVisibleOverflow, growth happens on .CodeEditorTarget/.CodeMirror (height: auto under focus) which visibly overflow the fixed-height EditorWrapper — so anchoring to the Wrapper or its first child measured a never-changing 36px rect and the popup stayed parked over the grown code. Anchor and observe the .CodeMirror element itself (fallback: first child, then wrapper), re-acquired on each open since CodeMirror is instantiated after this component mounts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AnR8y2DBrfiXyBd8HYjksQ
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…rolls Live-reproduced on the deploy preview: scrolling a query form left the popup (and its collapsed pill) stranded at stale viewport coordinates while the field scrolled away — popper.js v1's scroll-parent detection misses the editor's app-shell scrollers, so its scroll listeners never fire (verified: dispatching a window resize snapped the popup straight back under its field). Add a capture-phase window scroll listener that schedules a popper update (rAF-throttled, skipped while the user has dragged the popup), and observe the popper content's own size so collapsing to the pill repositions immediately instead of leaving a stale gap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AnR8y2DBrfiXyBd8HYjksQ
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…ragged eval popup - disable popper's own listeners once a manual position exists, so its transform can't stack on the dragged top/left - return a teardown from draggableElement and call it on effect cleanup, fixing leaked ResizeObservers that stomped live drags - accept a non-zero delta on either axis as a valid first drag - clear the dragged position when the popup closes, so each open re-anchors Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011WTDxEYSLtnQXWW3gHTT2R
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Live-verified on the deploy preview: every drag of the helper window died mid-gesture and the popup snapped back to its anchor. - prevent the drag handle's default mousedown so the anchored editor keeps focus; losing it closed the popup and tore down the drag - report the real drag lifecycle (mousedown to mouseup) through a new onDragStateChange callback instead of inferring isDragging from hover on the 43px handle, which cursor excursions mid-drag turned off - start the drag-position ResizeObserver only after the drag settles; observing on the first movement persisted a position mid-gesture, which flipped arePopperEventsDisabled and re-ran the popper effect, releasing the document handlers under the live drag - center the drag grip over the popup so it no longer strands outside the collapsed pill (default left:135px on an 84px box) - prevent default on the collapse/expand toggles so toggling does not blur the editor and close the window - add draggableElement unit tests that go red if any of the above reverts Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011K3yPfQMWxQK15jxkFsfQW
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Live-verified on the rebuilt deploy preview: the invisible 43x28 handler box, now centered, covered the collapsed pill's expand toggle and swallowed its clicks. Give renderDragBlockPositions an optional pointerEvents and set it to none for the eval popup — the visible grip re-enables its own pointer events, and its mousedown still bubbles to the handler box's listener, so dragging is unaffected (verified live via hot-patch: expand click lands, drag-to-bottom, collapse/expand in place, and drag-back to the anchor all work end to end). Follow-up to 97da171 addressing a defect found in its DP verification; targeted re-review only, per prior council approval of the parent change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011K3yPfQMWxQK15jxkFsfQW
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Full Cypress run on the head commit Correcting my earlier note: I previously said this failure had not recurred and read it as transient. That was wrong as an inference — the
Six for six, always the same single test — The error is server-side, from the HubSpot plugin itself:
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Minimizing Chrome (or switching apps) blurs the focused editor, which closes the popup; the close handler then discarded the hand-dragged position, so the popup teleported back to its anchor the moment the window was restored. Only re-anchor when the popup closes while the document still has focus (the user deliberately moved elsewhere in the app). document.hasFocus() is false during window-level blurs, so those keep the dragged position. Adds two tests that simulate the full drag in jsdom and toggle isOpen with document.hasFocus() mocked each way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011K3yPfQMWxQK15jxkFsfQW
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Correction to my triage above — the board is now fully green, and the HubSpot blocker cleared on its own. The full run on In my earlier comment I called the Current state of the head commit
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Description
TL;DR: The evaluated-value helper popup no longer covers the field being edited, and it can now be collapsed to a slim pill — globally and persistently — for users who find it noisy.
Problem.
EvaluatedValuePopup(shared by every CodeEditor binding field) always usedleft-startplacement plus hardcoded pixel-offset corrections. For fields spanning the center of the viewport — every query/API/SMTP form field — the"0, -290"branch slid the popup back over the field itself, hiding the text being typed.Fix (placement). The offset hack is deleted. Placement is now chosen by an exported pure function
getEvaluatedPopupPlacement(left, viewportWidth):left-start, identical to today's working behavior — the popup floats over the canvas.bottom-startunder the field, with popperfliptotop-startwhen there's no room below. The focused field is never overlapped.popperPlacement(table primary-columns controls) still win, unchanged.isOpen, so geometry is re-read each time the popup opens (the ref is null on first render).Fix (collapse). The popup gains an always-visible title row (entity name / provided label / "Binding preview" fallback) with a Tooltip-wrapped, aria-labelled collapse button. Collapsed, it renders as a slim pill: label, an error icon (with tooltip +
role="img"/aria-label) when the binding has an evaluation error, and an expand button. The preference is a single global boolean persisted in localStorage (EVALUATED_VALUE_POPUP_COLLAPSED) — collapse once, it stays collapsed everywhere until expanded. Only the button toggles; the title is intentionally non-interactive so accidental clicks can't flip a persisted global preference.Cypress DOM contract.
commonlocators.evaluatedTypeTitle(> p:first-of-type) andcommonlocators.evaluatedType(> div:first-of-type pre) walk the popup's direct children. The title row is therefore a direct-child<p>(styled(StyledTitleName)) with the button nested inside — never a wrappingdiv— keeping the first directdivas the Expected-structure Collapse and preserving thep → next → spanchain used byfindAndExpandEvaluatedTypeTitle. Please watchBinding/TextTable_spec.jsandBinding/TextTableV2_spec.jsin the run.Testing. 5 new jest tests (collapse + persist round-trip, restore-from-storage, collapsed error indicator, both placement branches incl. the midpoint boundary);
CodeEditor.test.tsxsuite passes; ESLint 0 errors on changed files; typecheck clean in changed scope. Reviewed by a 4-role review pass (architecture, security, QA, UX); all findings addressed.Risks / notes.
bottom-startcan cover the field below the focused one; accepted — the popup auto-hides on blur and the focused field stays visible.Fixes #42124
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