Default length of Project Dropdown too short or missing

[sbts]

Looking at this link on the demo for 1.4.22
https://demo.cloud.efficito.com/erp/1.4/login.pl?action=login&company=demo14
It can be seen that the "Project" Dropdown box is defaulting to auto width which is aesthetically unpleasing.
We should have a minimum width set for all controls.

[ehuelsmann]

all dropdowns are missing width declaration...

[einhverfr]

how would we set the width without knowing the contents?

[ehuelsmann]

Hmm. but once the admin created the projects, the contents is known, right?

OTOH, I'm also feeling for a simple "min-width" CSS declaration...

[ehuelsmann]

there are 2 possible solutions here: tag-specific style attributes for which we generate the content dynamically. I'm not sure that works really well with i18n though. The other is to dynamically select a class based on the maximum length of the content which is available from the user-defined style sheet.

[sbts]

While I agree that setting the width based on content length is preferable and our end goal.
In the immediate sense ( and it can be retained as a default for when there is no data yet) all fields should have a rational min-width defined.
The minimum should be something that fits with the purpose of the field, and visual layout intent.

[ehuelsmann]

The minimum should be something that fits with the purpose of the field, and visual layout intent.

If I may ask, then why do you pick this detail? There's a lot of layout work to be done. Almost all of the filter pages are completely unstyled or if they are, still look crap. Why then pick on the drop-down?

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Closing: more than 90 days without user response. Feel free to reopen with your comments.