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Description of change

Fixed blabsy chat overflow.

Issue Number

Closes #284

Type of change

  • Fix (a change which fixes an issue)

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Manually.

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  • Style
    • Chat header now fits content, reducing excess space.
    • Chat layout height aligns with the viewport for consistent panel sizing and better use of screen space.
    • Adjusted spacing and padding in the message list for a cleaner appearance; scrolling behavior unchanged.
    • Improved overall responsiveness and visual consistency across the chat view.

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Layout-only updates to chat components adjust container heights, padding, and overflow classes. The chat header gains h-fit. Chat layout switches to min-h-full with max widths, adjusts column heights, and sets the right pane height to h-[calc(100vh-4rem)]. No logic, exports, or public APIs changed.

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Cohort / File(s) Change Summary
Chat layout class adjustments
platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat-window.tsx, platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat.tsx
Tweaked Tailwind classes to modify heights, padding, and overflow: header gets h-fit; message list class order normalized; main/chat columns switch to min/max heights and right pane set to h-[calc(100vh-4rem)]. No behavioral/logic changes.

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Assessment against linked issues

Objective Addressed Explanation
Fix chat window overflow with accumulating messages (#284) CSS height/overflow tweaks likely target the issue, but it’s unclear without verifying scroll containment and behavior on new message append.

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I nudge the panes with gentle paws,
Trim heights, tame scrolls, obey the laws.
A viewport minus four rem tall—
No more messages that sprawl!
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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (3)
platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat-window.tsx (1)

209-209: Header: prefer shrink-0 over h-fit for safer cross-browser behavior

h-fit can be inconsistent in flex parents across browsers. shrink-0 reliably prevents the header from collapsing and pairs well with a scrollable content area below.

Apply:

-<div className='flex h-fit items-center justify-between gap-3 border-b border-gray-200 p-4 dark:border-gray-800'>
+<div className='flex shrink-0 items-center justify-between gap-3 border-b border-gray-200 p-4 dark:border-gray-800'>

Manual check:

  • Resize window and add many messages; ensure the header never overlaps or collapses and the message list remains scrollable on Safari/iOS and Chromium.
platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat.tsx (2)

6-6: min-h-full can be fragile without a height-defined parent

Switching from min-h-screen to min-h-full relies on an ancestor having a defined height. If none does, main won’t fill the viewport; this can influence inner height math and overflow.

Options:

  • Safer default:
-<main className='min-h-full w-full max-w-5xl pt-8'>
+<main className='min-h-screen w-full max-w-5xl pt-8'>
  • Mobile-friendly variant (better with dynamic browser UI):
-<main className='min-h-full w-full max-w-5xl pt-8'>
+<main className='min-h-dvh w-full max-w-5xl pt-8'>

Manual check:

  • Verify full-height behavior across routes/layouts and on iOS Safari (dynamic toolbars).

11-11: Right pane height duplicates parent height; prefer h-full or use dvh for mobile

The grid already sets h-[calc(100vh-4rem)]. Setting the same on this child is redundant and can cause maintenance drift. Use h-full to inherit the grid’s height. If you need viewport-aware height directly on the pane, prefer dvh to handle mobile browser chrome.

Option A (inherit from grid):

-<div className='h-[calc(100vh-4rem)] rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
+<div className='h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>

Option B (mobile-friendly explicit height):

-<div className='h-[calc(100vh-4rem)] rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
+<div className='h-[calc(100dvh-4rem)] rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>

Manual check:

  • Ensure no double scrollbars, and the message list remains scrollable but contained.
  • Validate the “4rem” offset reflects real header/padding; mismatch can cause subtle off-by-some-px issues.
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platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat.tsx (1)
platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat-list.tsx (1)
  • ChatList (18-160)

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<div className='flex-1 overflow-y-auto p-4'>
<div className='flex-1 p-4 overflow-y-auto'>
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Ensure the message list can actually scroll in flex/grid by adding min-h-0

In many flex/grid stacks, a scrollable child must have min-h-0 to avoid expanding past its container. This prevents the “infinite growth” overflow.

Apply:

-<div className='flex-1 p-4 overflow-y-auto'>
+<div className='flex-1 min-h-0 p-4 overflow-y-auto overscroll-contain'>

Manual check:

  • With long message histories, confirm the list scrolls inside the pane (no page-level scroll bleed), especially on iOS Safari.

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
# Locate chat-window.tsx
file=$(fd --hidden --glob "chat-window.tsx")
echo "File: $file"
# Show context around the scrollable div
rg -n "flex-1 p-4 overflow-y-auto" -A 10 -B 10 "$file"

Length of output: 1617


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Show surrounding context for the scrollable div to inspect parent containers
sed -n '200,350p' platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat-window.tsx

Length of output: 8786


Add min-h-0 and overscroll-contain to the scrollable message pane

To ensure the flex‐item truly scrolls within its parent (and prevent page‐level scroll bleed on iOS), reset its min-height and contain its overscroll:

• File: platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat-window.tsx (around line 266)
• Update the wrapper div for the message list:

-                    <div className='flex-1 p-4 overflow-y-auto'>
+                    <div className='flex-1 min-h-0 p-4 overflow-y-auto overscroll-contain'>
📝 Committable suggestion

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Carefully review the code before committing. Ensure that it accurately replaces the highlighted code, contains no missing lines, and has no issues with indentation. Thoroughly test & benchmark the code to ensure it meets the requirements.

Suggested change
<div className='flex-1 p-4 overflow-y-auto'>
<div className='flex-1 min-h-0 p-4 overflow-y-auto overscroll-contain'>
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
In platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat-window.tsx around line 266, the
scrollable message pane div lacks the Tailwind classes to allow correct flex
scrolling and to contain overscroll on touch devices; update the wrapper div's
className to include min-h-0 and overscroll-contain (e.g., add those two classes
alongside existing flex-1 p-4 overflow-y-auto) so the pane resets min-height and
prevents page-level scroll bleed on iOS.

<main className='min-h-full w-full max-w-5xl pt-8'>
<div className='grid h-[calc(100vh-4rem)] grid-cols-1 gap-4 md:grid-cols-[350px_1fr]'>
<div className='h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
<div className='max-h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
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Sidebar height: max-h-full may collapse and break inner scrolling

Using max-h-full allows the container to shrink to content height, which can prevent its children (e.g., a scrollable chat list) from getting a definite height. h-full keeps the sidebar matched to the grid row height so the inner scroll area works reliably.

Apply:

-<div className='max-h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
+<div className='h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>

If the ChatList needs an explicit flex context to contain its own scrollable region, consider:

  • Add min-h-0 and overflow-hidden to this wrapper, and ensure the immediate child providing overflow-y-auto has min-h-0 as well.

Manual check:

  • Populate many chats and confirm the left list scrolls inside the column (not the whole page).

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Show usage of max-h-full and nearby context in chat.tsx
rg -n "max-h-full" -C5 platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat.tsx

echo
echo "==== Top of file (1–50) ===="
sed -n '1,50p' platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat.tsx

Length of output: 1520


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Find and display the ChatList component implementation
rg -l "ChatList" -g "*.tsx" platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat | xargs -I {} sed -n '1,200p' {}

Length of output: 9006


Ensure ChatList container fills its parent and enables inner scrolling

Replace the first column wrapper’s max-h-full with h-full so the chat list always spans the full grid height, and optionally add flex constraints to contain overflow:

• File: platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat.tsx
• Line 8

-                <div className='max-h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
+                <div className='h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>

If you run into cropping or child overflow issues, consider on that same <div> adding flex flex-col min-h-0 overflow-hidden, and ensure the immediate scroll container inside ChatList also has min-h-0.

Manual test: load many chats and verify the left list scrolls within its column rather than the whole page.

📝 Committable suggestion

‼️ IMPORTANT
Carefully review the code before committing. Ensure that it accurately replaces the highlighted code, contains no missing lines, and has no issues with indentation. Thoroughly test & benchmark the code to ensure it meets the requirements.

Suggested change
<div className='max-h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
<div className='h-full rounded-lg border border-gray-200 bg-white dark:border-gray-800 dark:bg-black'>
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
In platforms/blabsy/src/components/chat/chat.tsx around line 8, the left column
wrapper uses max-h-full which can prevent the chat list from filling the grid
column and cause scrolling of the whole page; replace max-h-full with h-full so
the container spans the full height, and optionally add flex flex-col min-h-0
overflow-hidden to the same <div> to constrain children; also ensure the
immediate scroll container inside ChatList has min-h-0 so internal scrolling
works correctly when many chats are present.

@coodos coodos merged commit 9269424 into main Aug 11, 2025
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@coodos coodos deleted the fix/blabsy-chat-overflow branch August 11, 2025 07:46
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[Bug] Chat window overflows indefinitely in blabsy with new messages
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