Fix Engagement Boost sidebar height below 783px

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Fixes #4523

Description

Replaces the hardcoded 65px in .traffic-boost-sidebar with Core's --wp-admin--admin-bar--height, leaving the padding and border terms explicit rather than folded into a single constant:

height: calc(100vh - var(--wp-admin--admin-bar--height, 0px) - var(--grid-unit-20) * 2 - 1px);

The 0px fallback covers the toolbar being hidden. Core defines the property in admin-bar.css, which is only enqueued once is_admin_bar_showing() passes in _wp_admin_bar_init(), so the property is absent exactly when there is no bar to subtract.

traffic-boost remains the internal identifier for Engagement Boost across selectors, paths and REST routes, so the class names below keep that spelling.

Build output is regenerated. The RTL stylesheet carries the same declaration; a height has no directional component.

Motivation and context

The old constant folded three values into one: the 32px desktop admin bar, the container's 2 × 16px vertical padding, and the sidebar's 1px border-bottom. Only the latter two are fixed. WordPress renders the bar at 46px below 783px, so the sidebar came out 14px too tall there and consumed the 16px bottom gap its container's padding intends, leaving 2px.

--wp-admin--admin-bar--height has been defined on html since WordPress 6.0 — the plugin's Requires at least — as 32px with a 46px override at max-width: 782px, so it tracks both the breakpoint and the bar's absence without the plugin restating either.

How has this been tested?

Measured in the mounted Engagement Boost single-post view at #/engagement-boost/:postId, reading getBoundingClientRect() on .traffic-boost-sidebar against window.innerHeight. The "before" column was captured in place by reapplying the old declaration to the live element, so both columns are measured under identical layout conditions.

Bottom gap, against the 16px the container's padding intends:

Viewport	Admin bar	Before	After
1440×900	32px	16px	16px
783×800	32px	16px	16px
600×800	46px	2px	16px

Desktop geometry is unchanged — the sidebar's bottom edge lands at 884px before and after — so the change is a no-op at and above 783px. The 783px row doubles as a sensitivity check: the breakpoint is max-width: 782px, so before and after should agree there, and the divergence appears only once the bar grows to 46px.

Confirmed 100vh is the right basis rather than an offset height: the position: fixed container's top edge tracks the admin bar exactly, at 32px on desktop and 46px on mobile, placing the sidebar at bar + 16px in both cases.

Content quantity cannot affect the result. The sidebar is a fixed-height flex column whose list region is flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 0; overflow-y: auto, so suggestions scroll internally and cannot push the outer box taller.

Checked the property's definition on the 6.0, 6.3, 6.5 and 6.7 branches — same html selector, same 32px/46px values, same 782px breakpoint in each, so the fallback only engages when the stylesheet is genuinely absent.

stylelint, ESLint and Jest (86 passing) all pass. Measurements taken on WordPress 7.1-RC4.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved sidebar sizing to dynamically account for the WordPress admin bar height.
  • Prevented layout issues when the admin bar height varies or is unavailable.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The traffic boost sidebar height now uses WordPress’s runtime admin bar height. It falls back to 0px when the CSS variable is unavailable.

Changes

Traffic boost sidebar

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dynamic sidebar height src/content-helper/dashboard-page/pages/traffic-boost/sidebar/sidebar.scss	The height calculation replaces the fixed 65px offset with var(--wp-admin--admin-bar--height, 0px). Existing padding and border offsets remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c8a92

The PR corrects sidebar height on narrower screens while preserving desktop behavior. No actionable merge-blocking product risk remains; only a minor SCSS formatting fix should be applied for clean checks.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the Engagement Boost sidebar height fix below the 783px breakpoint.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required change, motivation, issue reference, testing details, and relevant measured results.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The change replaces the hardcoded height with Core's variable and fallback, preserving the 16px gap across toolbar states and widths.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reviewed SCSS change is limited to the linked issue and directly supports the sidebar height correction.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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In `@src/content-helper/dashboard-page/pages/traffic-boost/sidebar/sidebar.scss`:
- Line 18: Insert a blank line between the border-bottom declaration and the
SCSS fallback comment to satisfy the scss/double-slash-comment-empty-line-before
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add an empty line before the SCSS comment.

Stylelint reports scss/double-slash-comment-empty-line-before at Line 18. Insert one blank line after border-bottom and before the fallback comment.

Proposed fix

 	border-bottom: 1px solid var(--gray-200);
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 	// Fallback is 0px because Core only defines the property when the bar renders.

🧰 Tools

🪛 Stylelint (17.14.0)

[error] 18-18: Expected empty line before comment (scss/double-slash-comment-empty-line-before)

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@src/content-helper/dashboard-page/pages/traffic-boost/sidebar/sidebar.scss`
at line 18, Insert a blank line between the border-bottom declaration and the
SCSS fallback comment to satisfy the scss/double-slash-comment-empty-line-before
rule.

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