🐛 Fixed lag when toggling between homepage and post design previews - #30133
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WalkthroughThe design modal prepares homepage and latest-post preview targets. It mounts all available Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The preview toggle change keeps both pages mounted for instant switching, but inactive previews can still receive keyboard focus, disrupting keyboard navigation; an unexpected malformed post URL could also prevent the design modal from opening. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and accessibility risks to be addressed or explicitly accepted. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6✅ Passed checks (6 passed)
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In `@apps/admin/src/settings/site/design-and-branding/theme-preview.tsx`:
- Line 124: Update the preview wrapper around parentClassName to apply inert
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navigation without relying on aria-hidden. In IframeBuffering, give the inactive
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HTML iframe opacity 0 pointer-events none keyboard focus sequential focus navigation
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When an HTML iframe is styled with opacity: 0 and pointer-events: none, it remains fully accessible to sequential focus navigation (e.g., using the Tab key) [1][2]. While pointer-events: none successfully instructs the browser to ignore mouse/pointer interactions for that element [1], it does not disable keyboard focusability [1][2]. The key technical points are: 1. Keyboard Focusability: Elements with pointer-events: none still receive focus via the Tab key [1][2]. If the iframe or any focusable element within it is part of the sequential focus navigation order, a user will be able to tab into the iframe even if it is invisible and "click-through" [1][2]. 2. Purpose of pointer-events: none: This property is intended only to control pointer/mouse event targeting [1]. It does not affect the accessibility tree or the ability of an element to be the target of sequential keyboard navigation [1][3]. 3. Comparison with display: none: If your goal is to completely remove an element from both pointer interaction and sequential focus navigation, display: none is the appropriate property [4][2]. Unlike opacity: 0, display: none removes the element from the layout and the accessibility tree, effectively preventing it from being reached by the Tab key [4]. 4. Managing Focus: If you must keep an iframe present in the DOM (e.g., for animations) but want to prevent keyboard users from tabbing into it, you should set the iframe's tabindex to -1 [5][6]. This removes it from the sequential focus navigation order while allowing programmatic focus [5][6]. In summary, if you intend to fully hide an iframe from both mouse and keyboard users, use display: none [4]. If you only use opacity: 0 and pointer-events: none, keyboard users will still be able to navigate into the hidden iframe [1][2].
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Remove hidden previews from keyboard navigation.
pointer-events-none does not remove an iframe from sequential keyboard focus. Add inert to the wrapper when isVisible is false. Also update IframeBuffering so its inactive iframe receives tabIndex={-1}; the inactive buffer remains opacity-0 even when its wrapper is visible. Do not rely on aria-hidden alone.
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In `@apps/admin/src/settings/site/design-and-branding/theme-preview.tsx` at line
124, Update the preview wrapper around parentClassName to apply inert whenever
isVisible is false, removing inactive previews from sequential keyboard
navigation without relying on aria-hidden. In IframeBuffering, give the inactive
iframe tabIndex={-1} and preserve opacity-0 for the inactive buffer even when
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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/DES-1475/delay-feels-broken-when-toggling-homepage-and-post-in-design-settings The design settings preview reused a single iframe and swapped its URL when the tab changed, so every toggle refetched and re-rendered the whole page from the site. Double buffering held the previous page on screen for that entire round trip, so a click produced no visible response for around a second and read as broken rather than slow. Each tab now renders its own preview, mounted when the modal opens and kept in sync in the background, so switching tabs only changes which one is visible and never waits on the network. Hidden previews stay mounted and laid out at full size so revealing one needs no reflow. The tradeoff is that a settings change now refreshes every preview rather than just the visible one. Debouncing was considered to offset that, but the preview already refetched on each change and no additional lag was observable while dragging the colour picker, so it was left out.
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137-137: Remove hidden previews from keyboard navigation.
opacity-0andpointer-events-nonedo not remove an iframe from sequential focus. WhenisVisibleis false, make the preview wrapper inert. Also set the inactive iframe buffer totabIndex={-1}inIframeBuffering. Do not rely on CSS alone.Source: Path instructions
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Resolved the acceptance test conflict by preserving the eager preview assertion while adopting the current screen selectors from main.
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138-138: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 MajorRemove hidden previews from sequential focus.
Line 138 changes opacity and pointer events only. A hidden iframe can still receive sequential keyboard focus. Add
inertto the wrapper whenisVisibleis false, and settabIndex={-1}on inactive iframe buffers inIframeBuffering. This repeats the unresolved finding from the previous review.As per path instructions, review Admin UI for accessible interaction states.
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latestPost.urlbefore mounting the post preview.useBrowsePostsapplies only the TypeScriptPosttype and does not runtime-validate the API response. If it returns a truthy malformed URL, the mountedThemePreviewcallsnew URL(url)and can throw when the modal opens. Guard or validate the URL before adding this target.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/admin/src/settings/site/design-and-branding/theme-preview.tsx`:
- Line 138: Update the theme preview wrapper to apply inert when isVisible is
false, and update IframeBuffering so inactive iframe buffers receive
tabIndex={-1}; preserve normal focus behavior for the visible preview.
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In `@apps/admin/src/settings/site/design-modal.tsx`:
- Line 197: Update the target construction around latestPost and useBrowsePosts
so latestPost.url is runtime-validated as a valid URL before adding the post
target. Only include the { id: 'post', url: latestPost.url } entry when
validation succeeds, preserving the existing behavior for valid URLs and
omitting malformed ones to prevent ThemePreview from throwing.
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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/DES-1475/delay-feels-broken-when-toggling-homepage-and-post-in-design-settings
Why are you making it?
In Settings → Site → Design & branding → Customize, switching the preview between Homepage and Post took roughly a second, and nothing on screen changed for that entire time. The click appeared to do nothing at all, so the delay read as broken rather than merely slow.
What does it do?
The preview reused a single iframe and swapped its URL when the tab changed, so every toggle refetched and re-rendered the whole page from the site. Double buffering deliberately holds the previous page on screen until the replacement has loaded — that avoids a flash of blank white, but it also means a tab click produces no visible feedback for the whole round trip.
Each tab now renders its own preview, mounted when the modal opens and kept in sync in the background. Switching tabs only changes which preview is visible, so it never waits on the network.
Hidden previews stay mounted and laid out at full size rather than being removed. That matters for how it looks: a removed preview would have to be re-measured and re-laid-out at the moment it was revealed, which is visible as a jolt in mobile view.
Why is this something Ghost users or developers need?
Design & branding is where publishers customise their site, and flipping between homepage and post to check a change is the core loop of that screen. Unresponsive feedback on the primary interaction of a settings page is disproportionately annoying, and the lack of any visual response made it read as a bug rather than as loading.
Trade-off
A settings change now refreshes every preview rather than only the visible one, so editing costs an extra background render.
Debouncing was considered to offset this. It was left out because the preview already refetched on every individual change before this PR, and no additional lag was observable when dragging the accent colour picker — the worst case for rapid changes. Adding a debounce would also make the live preview trail the input, which is a real cost on a screen whose whole purpose is immediate visual feedback. Easy to revisit if it proves to matter.
Testing
design.acceptance.test.tsxnow asserts that both previews are fetched up front, before either tab is selected. That is precisely the behaviour that would regress if someone later reverted to a single shared preview, so it fails loudly rather than silently reintroducing the lag.Full design acceptance suite passes (11/11), along with
tscandeslint.Manually verified: toggling is instant and repeatable; settings changes are already reflected in the hidden preview when you switch to it; switching device size then toggling shows no reflow; scroll position, and save/close/reopen all behave.