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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-77803

Page scrollbars on Firefox are too thin, difficult to use

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Won't Do
    • 4.0.7
    • None
    • Accessibility, Themes
    • MOODLE_400_STABLE
    • MDL-77803_401-alt
    • MDL-77803_402-alt
    • MDL-77803-alt
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      1. Login as admin using different web browsers:
        1. Firefox (Windows, Linux, Mac)
        2. Chrome (Windows, Linux, Mac) 
        3. Safari
      2. Navigate to a course page with at least 20 activities
      3. Make sure the course content can scroll
      4. Make sure block toggle button can triggered
      5. Verify the scrollbar and block toggle button can match in same position showing both and without extra gap between toggle button and scrollbar.
      6. Verify the use of visual-scroll-x class and/or the thin-scrolls mixin throughout the site (home, reportbuilder, etc).
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      Login as admin using different web browsers: Firefox (Windows, Linux, Mac) Chrome (Windows, Linux, Mac)  Safari Navigate to a course page with at least 20 activities Make sure the course content can scroll Make sure block toggle button can triggered Verify the scrollbar and block toggle button can match in same position showing both and without extra gap between toggle button and scrollbar. Verify the use of visual-scroll-x class and/or the thin-scrolls mixin throughout the site (home, reportbuilder, etc).

    Description

      This issue pre-dates MDL-73771, but is made more obvious with the large gap that now exists between the "<" block button, and the very narrow page scrollbar:

      Firefox (Ubuntu)

      Chrome (Ubuntu)

      It's because of this line:

          // Firefox.
          scrollbar-width: thin;
      

      For reference, see this from MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-width

      Accessibility concerns

      Use this property with caution — setting scrollbar-width to thin or none can make content hard or impossible to scroll if the author does not provide an alternative scrolling mechanism. While swiping gestures or mouse wheels can enable scrolling on such content, some devices have no scroll alternative.

      This is the current issue, it's a cause of great frustration trying to use a mouse to click/drag an extremely narrow page element

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              carlos.castillo@moodle.com Carlos Castillo
              pholden Paul Holden
              Pedro Jordao Pedro Jordao
              Jun Pataleta, Huong Nguyen, Bas Brands, Mathew May, Amaia Anabitarte, Carlos Escobedo, Laurent David, Mikel Martín Corrales, Sabina Abellan, Sara Arjona (@sarjona)
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