/* The derived link colour, per mode. Branding stores BOTH: one dark enough to read on the light surface and one light enough on the dark. A single value cannot do both jobs, which is why the accent alone could not - it is chosen to be recognisable, and readability is a different requirement that depends on what is behind it. */ html[data-mode="dark"] { --ui-link: var(--ui-link-dm, var(--ui-accent)); } :root { /* ---- ADMIN DARK (default) ---- */ --ui-ground: #0b1214; --ui-surface: #152226; --ui-s2: #1b2b30; --ui-s3: #223439; --ui-rule: #24363b; --ui-rule-strong: #2e454b; --ui-grid: #1e3136; --ui-ink: #e6eeee; --ui-muted: #93a8ac; --ui-faint: #7e9498; --ui-hairline: #5f7478; --ui-accent: #2fc1af; --ui-accent-deep: #59d3c3; --ui-accent-tint: rgba(47,193,175,.14); /* THE ACCENT FILLS; THE LINK IS WHAT TEXT USES. On the dark palette they are the same value - the teal reads at 5.79:1 even on the lightest dark surface - and it is written out anyway so both themes answer the same question in the same place, rather than one of them answering by omission. */ --ui-link: #2fc1af; --ui-link-deep: #59d3c3; --ui-good: #46c476; --ui-warn: #e0a33c; --ui-danger: #e46a6a; --ui-info: #5b9bd8; --ui-good-tint: rgba(70,196,118,.14); --ui-warn-tint: rgba(224,163,60,.14); --ui-bad-tint: rgba(228,106,106,.14); --ui-neutral-tint: rgba(147,168,172,.14); --ui-sidebar: #0a1113; --ui-sidebar-line: #1b2a2e; /* Group labels are the only structure the rail has, and at 3.39:1 they were the least legible text in the product. 5.76:1. */ --ui-side-text: #8fa5a9; --ui-side-dim: #7c9297; /* identity ramp — charts only, never state */ --ui-chart-1: #5b78e8; --ui-chart-2: #0f9d9d; --ui-chart-3: #c08414; --ui-chart-4: #d4508f; --ui-chart-5: #5aa83c; --ui-chart-6: #9268e0; --ui-chart-7: #e0703a; --ui-chart-8: #2f7fd6; --ui-sans: 'IBM Plex Sans', 'Segoe UI', system-ui, sans-serif; --ui-mono: 'IBM Plex Mono', ui-monospace, Consolas, monospace; /* ---- type scale: six steps, and everything is on one of them ---- */ --t-xs: 11px; /* pill, badge, timestamp */ --t-sm: 12px; /* caption, table cell, help */ --t-md: 13px; /* body, control, nav */ --t-lg: 15px; /* card title, section heading */ --t-xl: 19px; /* page title */ --t-2xl: 26px; /* the one number a KPI exists to show */ /* ---- spacing scale: 4px base ---- */ --s-1: 4px; --s-2: 8px; --s-3: 12px; --s-4: 16px; --s-5: 24px; --s-6: 32px; --s-7: 48px; --r-sm: 8px; --r-md: 11px; --r-lg: 14px; color-scheme: dark; } html[data-mode="light"] { --ui-ground: #eef2f3; --ui-surface: #ffffff; --ui-s2: #f4f7f7; --ui-s3: #e8eeee; --ui-rule: #dfe7e8; --ui-rule-strong: #c8d6d8; --ui-grid: #e6ecee; --ui-ink: #16232a; --ui-muted: #5b6d73; --ui-faint: #5d7176; --ui-hairline: #8aa0a6; --ui-accent: #0e7c86; --ui-accent-deep: #0a5f67; --ui-accent-tint: #e5f1f2; /* ...and on the LIGHT palette they are not the same value, which is the whole reason the two were separated. MEASURED 2026-08-30: the accent reads at 4.95:1 on white and 4.39:1 on --ui-ground - and --ui-ground is the page, so most links in the product were the failing case. It clears the bar on the surface everybody checks and misses it on the surface everybody uses. #0f7680 is the same teal, one step darker, and passes on all four. */ --ui-link: #0f7680; --ui-link-deep: #0b5c64; --ui-good: #2e7d43; --ui-warn: #a45b19; --ui-danger: #a13030; --ui-info: #2f6cb3; --ui-good-tint: #e9f4ec; --ui-warn-tint: #faf1e6; --ui-bad-tint: #f7ebeb; --ui-neutral-tint: #eef1f2; --ui-sidebar: #0c1517; --ui-sidebar-line: #1b272b; --ui-side-text: #90a5ab; --ui-side-dim: #728187; --ui-chart-1: #3d5cc9; --ui-chart-2: #0b7f7f; --ui-chart-3: #9a6a0f; --ui-chart-4: #b23a76; --ui-chart-5: #457f2e; --ui-chart-6: #7550c4; --ui-chart-7: #bf5a2a; --ui-chart-8: #2264ad; color-scheme: light; } /* ---- CUSTOMER (template v2): warm light by default, calm dark on toggle. Placed after the light block so the customer palette wins at equal specificity; the [data-mode] variants pin both explicit choices. ---- */ html[data-view="customer"], html[data-view="customer"][data-mode="light"] { --ui-ground: #faf9f6; --ui-surface: #ffffff; --ui-s2: #f4f3ee; --ui-s3: #ecebe4; --ui-rule: #e6e4dc; --ui-rule-strong: #d5d2c6; --ui-grid: #eceae2; --ui-ink: #1d2a2e; --ui-muted: #63757a; --ui-faint: #63757a; --ui-hairline: #93a3a7; --ui-accent: #0e7c86; --ui-accent-deep: #0a5f67; --ui-accent-tint: #e7f2f3; --ui-good: #2e7d43; --ui-warn: #a45b19; --ui-danger: #a13030; --ui-info: #2f6cb3; --ui-good-tint: #e9f4ec; --ui-warn-tint: #faf1e6; --ui-bad-tint: #f7ebeb; --ui-neutral-tint: #efeee8; --ui-sidebar: #101c1f; --ui-sidebar-line: #203135; --ui-side-text: #93a8ac; --ui-side-dim: #54696d; --ui-chart-1: #3d5cc9; --ui-chart-2: #0b7f7f; --ui-chart-3: #9a6a0f; --ui-chart-4: #b23a76; --ui-chart-5: #457f2e; --ui-chart-6: #7550c4; --ui-chart-7: #bf5a2a; --ui-chart-8: #2264ad; color-scheme: light; } html[data-view="customer"][data-mode="dark"] { --ui-ground: #0f1517; --ui-surface: #151d20; --ui-s2: #1e2a2e; --ui-s3: #253439; --ui-rule: #273a3f; --ui-rule-strong: #31474d; --ui-grid: #223438; --ui-ink: #e6eeee; --ui-muted: #95a9ad; --ui-faint: #7e9498; --ui-hairline: #607579; --ui-accent: #2fc1af; --ui-accent-deep: #59d3c3; --ui-accent-tint: rgba(47,193,175,.14); /* WITHOUT THESE THE CUSTOMER'S DARK THEME INHERITS THE LIGHT LINK, because its cascade runs :root -> light -> customer -> customer dark, and a token it does not restate keeps the LIGHT theme's value. The dark teal at 2.4:1 on this ground is what that looks like. Every theme that redefines a surface has to redefine the text that lands on it - which is the rule the contrast guard now enforces rather than trusting anyone to remember. */ --ui-link: #2fc1af; --ui-link-deep: #59d3c3; --ui-good: #46c476; --ui-warn: #e0a33c; --ui-danger: #e46a6a; --ui-info: #5b9bd8; --ui-good-tint: rgba(70,196,118,.14); --ui-warn-tint: rgba(224,163,60,.14); --ui-bad-tint: rgba(228,106,106,.14); --ui-neutral-tint: rgba(147,168,172,.14); --ui-sidebar: #0a1113; --ui-sidebar-line: #1b2a2e; --ui-side-text: #8fa5a9; --ui-side-dim: #7c9297; --ui-chart-1: #5b78e8; --ui-chart-2: #0f9d9d; --ui-chart-3: #c08414; --ui-chart-4: #d4508f; --ui-chart-5: #5aa83c; --ui-chart-6: #9268e0; --ui-chart-7: #e0703a; --ui-chart-8: #2f7fd6; color-scheme: dark; } * { box-sizing: border-box; } body { margin: 0; background: var(--ui-ground); color: var(--ui-ink); font-family: var(--ui-sans); font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.5; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: background .15s ease; } /* THE ACCENT FILLS; --ui-link IS WHAT TEXT USES. MEASURED ON THE FOUNDER'S PLATFORM, 2026-08-30: his branding accent is a gold, #c98a2e, and every link on the panel is drawn in it - at 2.93:1 on white, where AA wants 4.5. Twenty-six rules used the accent as TEXT. A brand colour is chosen to be recognisable, not readable, and those are different jobs: the same gold is perfectly good as a button fill with white on it and unreadable as eleven-point text. So the accent keeps doing the first job, and --ui-link is derived from it to do the second - dark enough to read on the light surface, light enough on the dark one. Undefined, it falls back to the accent, which is what the built-in palettes want because theirs already pass. */ a { color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: var(--ui-link-deep, var(--ui-accent-deep)); } h1 { font-size: 19px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -.01em; margin: 0; } button { font: inherit; } /* A HEADING NOBODY STYLED STILL HAS A WEIGHT: the browser's, which is 700. MEASURED 2026-08-30: the same

element rendered at 600 as a card title and at 700 in the first-run checklist, because that one set only its size. Two weights for one level is the kind of difference nobody can name and everybody sees. The scale answers for every heading now, so a new one is right by default and a deliberate exception has to say so. / h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-weight: 600; text-wrap: balance; } / ---- app shell ---- / .shell { display: flex; min-height: 100vh; } .sidebar { flex: 0 0 var(--rail-w, 240px); background: var(--ui-sidebar); display: flex; flex-direction: column; padding: 16px 12px 12px; position: sticky; top: 0; height: 100vh; overflow-y: auto; scrollbar-width: thin; transition: flex-basis .14s ease; } / ---- the mini rail ---- Twenty destinations in five groups is a lot of permanent furniture on a laptop, and on a wide screen it is 240px you might rather give to a table. Collapsed it keeps every icon and every position, so the muscle memory of where things are survives the switch — only the labels go. / / min-width:0 is the whole fix, and it is the same one this codebase has now hit four times: a flex item will not shrink below its own CONTENT without it, so flex-basis:64px was being overridden by the min-content width of the labels — even though those labels are hidden, the group headings and the pulse block still measure. / / flex: 0 0 64px, not flex-basis: 64px. The base rule sets the SHORTHAND, and overriding one longhand of it here was silently losing — the rest of this block (padding, min-width) applied, so the rail visibly restyled while staying exactly 240px wide, which is the most misleading version of not working. min-width:0 is still needed: a flex item will not shrink below its own content without it. / html[data-rail="mini"] { --rail-w: 64px; } html[data-rail="mini"] .sidebar { padding: 16px 8px 12px; min-width: 0; overflow-x: hidden; } html[data-rail="mini"] .nav-item { justify-content: center; padding: 0; } html[data-rail="mini"] .nav-item span:not(.dotw), html[data-rail="mini"] .nav-item .count, html[data-rail="mini"] .brand small, html[data-rail="mini"] .brand b, html[data-rail="mini"] .whoami div, html[data-rail="mini"] .pulse .row, html[data-rail="mini"] .side-foot form { display: none; } / The group label collapses to the rule it already implies, so the five groups stay visually separated without their names. / html[data-rail="mini"] .navsec { height: 1px; padding: 10px 6px; overflow: hidden; color: transparent; } html[data-rail="mini"] .navsec::after { content: ""; position: absolute; left: 10px; right: 10px; height: 1px; background: var(--ui-sidebar-line); } html[data-rail="mini"] .navsec { position: relative; } html[data-rail="mini"] .pulse { padding: 8px 6px; } html[data-rail="mini"] .whoami { justify-content: center; } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { .sidebar { transition: none; } } / The rail toggle sits at the bottom of the rail, where it is out of the way of navigation but always in the same place. / .railtoggle { margin-top: var(--s-2); width: 100%; height: 30px; border: 0; border-radius: var(--r-sm); background: transparent; color: var(--ui-side-dim); cursor: pointer; display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; gap: 8px; font-size: var(--t-xs); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; } .railtoggle:hover { background: rgba(255,255,255,.05); color: var(--ui-side-text); } html[data-rail="mini"] .railtoggle span { display: none; } .brand { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 11px; padding: 2px 10px 14px; } .brand b { color: #fff; font-weight: 700; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -.01em; display: block; line-height: 1.1; } .brand small { font-size: 9.5px; color: var(--ui-side-dim); letter-spacing: .16em; font-weight: 600; } .navsec { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; font-size: 10.5px; letter-spacing: .12em; font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-side-dim); padding: 13px 12px 4px; } .navsec i { width: 8px; height: 8px; border-radius: 3px; display: inline-block; flex: none; } .nav-item { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px; height: 33px; padding: 0 12px; border-radius: 8px; color: var(--ui-side-text); font-size: 13px; font-weight: 500; } .nav-item:hover { color: #d7e2e5; background: rgba(255,255,255,.05); } / The active row had a tint block and nothing else. A tint is the first thing a white-label recolour changes, so on a rebranded panel the only signal of where you are could wash out entirely. The bar is structural. / .nav-item.active, .nav-item.active:hover { color: #fff; background: rgba(47,193,175,.20); } .nav-item.active::before { content: ""; position: absolute; left: 0; top: 6px; bottom: 6px; width: 2px; border-radius: 0 2px 2px 0; background: var(--ui-accent); } .nav-item { position: relative; } .nav-item:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid var(--ui-accent); outline-offset: -2px; } .nav-item svg { flex: 0 0 18px; } .nav-item .count { margin-left: auto; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 10.5px; color: var(--ui-side-dim); } .nav-item .dotw { margin-left: auto; width: 7px; height: 7px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--ui-warn); flex: none; } .pulse { margin-top: auto; background: rgba(255,255,255,.04); border: 1px solid var(--ui-sidebar-line); border-radius: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; } .pulse .t { font-size: 10.5px; letter-spacing: .1em; font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-side-dim); } .pulse .row { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between; gap: 8px; margin-top: 4px; } .pulse b { color: #d7e2e5; font-size: 12.5px; } .pulse small { color: var(--ui-side-dim); font-size: 11px; } .side-foot { padding: 12px 10px 2px; border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-sidebar-line); margin-top: 10px; } .whoami { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px; padding: 0 2px 10px; } .whoami .av { width: 30px; height: 30px; border-radius: 50%; background: #22333a; color: #d7e2e5; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 600; flex: none; } .whoami form { margin-left: auto; } .signout { border: 0; background: transparent; color: var(--ui-side-dim); cursor: pointer; padding: 6px; border-radius: var(--r-sm); display: inline-flex; } .signout:hover { background: rgba(255,255,255,.06); color: var(--ui-side-text); } html[data-rail="mini"] .whoami form { display: none; } .whoami b { color: #d7e2e5; font-size: 12.5px; display: block; line-height: 1.2; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; max-width: 150px; } .whoami small { color: var(--ui-side-dim); font-size: 10.5px; } .main { flex: 1; display: flex; flex-direction: column; min-width: 0; } .topbar { height: 54px; background: var(--ui-surface); border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; padding: 0 22px; position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 10; } .searchbox { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 9px; background: var(--ui-ground); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: 9px; height: 34px; padding: 0 12px; width: 360px; color: var(--ui-faint); cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; } .searchbox:hover { border-color: var(--ui-rule-strong); } .searchbox kbd { margin-left: auto; flex: none; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 10px; background: var(--ui-s2); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: 5px; padding: 1px 6px; color: var(--ui-muted); letter-spacing: .04em; } .searchbox kbd .kmod { font-weight: 500; margin-right: 3px; } / The label truncates before the chip does: the chip is 30px and fixed, the words are not, and a flex item will not shrink below its content without this - the defect that overflowed the topbar on every page at 375px. / .searchbox > span { min-width: 0; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } .iconbtn { border: 0; background: transparent; color: var(--ui-muted); cursor: pointer; padding: 6px; border-radius: 8px; display: inline-flex; } .iconbtn:hover { background: var(--ui-s2); color: var(--ui-ink); } .avatarchip { width: 30px; height: 30px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--ui-accent); color: #fff; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 600; flex: none; } .dot { width: 7px; height: 7px; border-radius: 50%; display: inline-block; flex: none; } .spacer { flex: 1; } main.content { flex: 1; padding: 20px 24px 32px; } / THE CAP, AND WHY IT IS NOT 1280. FOUNDER, on a ~2560px screen: "so much is missing - i see it like 15% build so far visually". Measured on /websites at 2545px: the content column was 1280 wide, so two fifths of the display was empty margin and the page read as unfinished rather than uncrowded. 1280 is the right cap for a page of PROSE, and this is not one - it is an operations panel whose main column holds tables of nodes, sites and jobs that genuinely want the room. The things that must NOT get wider are already bounded on their own: card subtitles at 78ch, notes at 72ch, form grids at 1180. So the cap can follow the widest useful table instead of the longest comfortable line. 1880 = a ~1150px main column and a ~500px side column with the gap. Still a cap, because a table stretched across 2560px is its own readability problem; the fluid toggle below is there for anybody who wants that anyway. / main.content > .inner { max-width: 1880px; margin: 0 auto; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 16px; } / THE fix for horizontal page overflow, and the fifth time this codebase has met it: .inner is a flex column, so every card in it is a flex ITEM, and a flex item defaults to min-width:auto — it refuses to shrink below its own content. One wide table inside one card therefore widens the PAGE, which on a phone is what makes the browser open zoomed out. Measured at 375px: /settings was 819px and /search 1335px against a 375px viewport; both go to 375 with this. The tables still scroll inside their own wrapper, which is where the scrolling belongs. / main.content > .inner > { min-width: 0; } .tablewrap { min-width: 0; } /* WIDTH BUYS COLUMNS, NOT LONGER LINES. Reported live at 2560px in fluid mode: every card was 2433px wide and every label, sentence and button sat at the far left of it with two thousand pixels of nothing alongside. Removing the cap on the CONTAINER without constraining what is inside it is not a full-width layout, it is a narrow layout in a wide box. So: things that are read or filled in keep a human measure wherever the card ends up, and only the things that genuinely want width — tables, charts — take it. / [data-ui="card"] > p, [data-ui="card"] > .emptystate p, .emptystate p, p.tnote, [data-ui="card-sub"] { max-width: 78ch; } / A field grid at 2433px produced ten columns of 240px, which is a form nobody can follow across. Four is the most a person tracks in a row. / .fieldgrid { max-width: 1180px; } .helprail { max-width: 1400px; } / Actions belong under the fields they act on, not stranded at the far edge. / / AN ACTION ROW REACHES THE CARD'S EDGE, so it does not inherit the 1180px cap that keeps a fieldgrid from becoming ten columns. It had one, and the result was Save sitting 152px and 191px inside its card while every other submit on the page was at 1px - right-aligned, inside a box that stops short, which reads as not aligned at all. / .formactions { max-width: none; } / WIDTH BUYS COLUMNS (plan #90 phase 2). The founder ran the panel at 2560px and reported, three times, that everything sat against the left with two thirds of the screen empty. I answered the first two wrongly: capping the line lengths changed nothing, because the problem was never alignment, and centring would have split the same emptiness in half. A page that is a STACK of cards rendered into one very wide column is a tall strip beside a void. So the stack is a grid and the number of columns falls out of the width available - no toggle, no breakpoint to maintain. At the capped 1280px two 660px columns do not fit, so it stays the single readable column it has always been; at 2306px it is three. Emerging from the space rather than from a setting is the correction to the first version of this, which was gated on fluid mode - a layout behind a control most people never turn on is a layout most people never get. / main.content > .inner { display: grid; / min(660px, 100%), NOT 660px. A bare minmax(660px, 1fr) sets a track floor the grid cannot go below, so on a 375px phone the content column stayed 660px wide and EVERY page scrolled sideways — the exact defect #62 spent a night removing, reintroduced by the column layout that was meant to use wide screens better. The min() makes the floor the container's own width whenever the container is the narrower of the two. / / A MAIN COLUMN AND A SIDE COLUMN, not "however many fit". FOUNDER, 2026-08-29: "every fucking page is shity with cards all over the places". He is describing auto-fit exactly. An auto-fit track list gives as many equal columns as the viewport allows - one at 1280, two at 1500, THREE on his 2560px screen - and fills them in source order, so a four-line status card lands beside a forty-line settings form, the row heights are set by the taller one, and the page is full of holes. Nothing decides what belongs where; the viewport does. Two columns, fixed. The wide one carries the substance - forms, tables, anything somebody reads or fills in. The narrow one carries what a page says ABOUT itself: status, at-a-glance, quick actions. That is a decision a page can make and a viewport cannot. / grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr); align-items: start; } @media (min-width: 1180px) { / THE RAIL IS RESERVED ONLY WHEN SOMETHING IS IN IT. FOUNDER, 2026-08-31: "all cards got different width ... one card is full width other not and looks shit". Measured on the files page at 2545px: 1174px, then 1880px, then 1174px, stacked vertically with nothing on the page explaining the difference. The cause was here. Every page got two columns whether or not it had a side card, so on a page with none, a plain card sat in a 1174px column while any full-width element used all 1880 - and the reader saw two widths where the page had made one decision. :has() asks the page instead: a page with no aside is ONE column and everything in it is the same width. / main.content > .inner:has(> [data-region="side"], > .sidestack) { grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1.7fr) minmax(300px, 1fr); / DENSE, so the side column packs from the top. MEASURED 2026-08-30 rather than assumed: I expected sparse placement to leave holes in column 1 and it does not, because a card pinned to column 2 only advances the cursor past cells column 1 had already taken. What sparse DOES do is drop each side card to whatever row the cursor had reached, so a page's first reference card can start halfway down an empty column - and with more side cards than main ones it runs out of rows and the holes do appear. Dense packs each column independently, which is what a two-column page is, and costs nothing here because every card spans exactly one column. / grid-auto-flow: dense; } / Everything is substance unless it says otherwise, so a page that has marked nothing reads as one deliberate column rather than a scatter. / main.content > .inner > [data-ui="card"] { grid-column: 1; } main.content > .inner > [data-ui="card"][data-region="side"] { grid-column: 2; } / AN EXPLICIT MAIN BEATS THE "IT HAS A TABLE" HEURISTIC. The rule below gives any card containing a table the full width, which is right when nothing else has an opinion - a table with no room reads as broken. But it made a two-column page impossible on exactly the pages that most need one: a list page's list is a table, so it took the full width, the create form above it took the full width too, and the result was a stack of wide sparse cards with the actual content pushed below the fold. At 2560px that is what "cards all over the place" looks like. A page saying region=main has looked at its own content and decided; that outranks a guess made from the markup. Same specificity as the side rule, so the pair behaves consistently. / main.content > .inner > [data-ui="card"][data-region="main"] { grid-column: 1; } / MORE THAN ONE ASIDE NEEDS ONE CONTAINER, not two grid items. CSS grid rows are as tall as their tallest cell, so a page whose main column holds a 3,000px table strands the SECOND aside 3,000px down the side column - measured on /nodes, where "Groups" landed at y=3288 with nothing between it and "Add a node". Grid cannot pack two columns independently; masonry would, and is not available. So a page with several asides wraps them in one .sidestack, which occupies a single cell and stacks its own children. Explicit, and it keeps the ordering decision in the page where it belongs. / main.content > .inner > .sidestack { grid-column: 2; } / IF ONE SIDE IS A STACK, BOTH MUST BE. A .sidestack is a single grid item, so a tall one makes row 1 as tall as itself - and every main card after the first then starts on row 2, BELOW the whole aside. Measured on the website page 2026-09-04: the traffic card ended at y=596 and the next left-hand card began at y=1414, 818px of white space, because the sidestack beside it was 1163px tall. That is the same defect as the ragged rows it was introduced to fix, mirrored. Grid cannot pack two columns independently at all (see above), so the answer is not to put one column in a stack but BOTH: two flex columns side by side, each packing from its own top. / main.content > .inner > .mainstack { grid-column: 1; } / A MAINSTACK ALONE IS NOT A TWO-COLUMN PAGE. The website page wraps every tab's cards in one, but only Overview has an aside - so triggering two columns on the presence of a mainstack would give Apps, Files, Databases and the rest a 690px empty column beside a squeezed one. The trigger stays the ASIDE; a mainstack with no sidestack simply fills the single column. / } / WIDTH IS A DECISION, NOT A GUESS (founder, 2026-08-31). These four span every column: the page header, a titled section group, an explicit .grid arrangement, and anything a page has deliberately marked [data-wide]. Every one of them is something the PAGE chose. What used to be here as well: "any card containing a table, a list or a chart". That guess is what produced three different card widths down one page - a card was wide or narrow depending on whether it happened to hold a , which is a fact about our markup and not one a reader can learn. Tables scroll inside their own wrapper (TableWrap exists for exactly that), so a table in the main column is not broken; it is the same width as everything else beside it, which is the whole point. / main.content > .inner > .view-head, main.content > .inner > .section, main.content > .inner > .grid, main.content > .inner > .setup, / A TAB BAR IS A PAGE-LEVEL CONTROL, NOT A COLUMN'S CONTENT. It was a direct child of .inner and in neither list, so on any page that had an aside it was confined to the 1.7fr track - about 1150px at the cap and ~550px at 1180px - while the .view-head directly above it spanned the full width and a status card sat beside it. .tabbar is display:flex with flex:none links, so the right-hand tabs simply scrolled off the edge with an empty rail alongside. Hits the site page's ten sections, /profile and /settings. / main.content > .inner > .tabbar, main.content > .inner > .tabs, / A PAGE-LEVEL NOTICE IS NOT A COLUMN'S CONTENT EITHER. The site page shows an .infobar above its header on the first visit after a create (?new=1), and it was in neither list - so it took column 1 of row 1, the .sidestack auto-placed into column 2 of the same row, and the .view-head, which needs both columns, could only start after the sidestack's row ended: title, tabs and traffic chart arrived BELOW a 1,700px rail (founder's screenshot, 2026-09-07). A banner that only exists on one navigation must not decide the page's column structure. / main.content > .inner > .infobar, main.content > .inner > [data-wide] { grid-column: 1 / -1; } / ...and that stays true at every width, including inside the two-column layout above, where the media query would otherwise pin them to column 1. / @media (min-width: 1180px) { main.content > .inner > .view-head, main.content > .inner > .section, main.content > .inner > .grid, main.content > .inner > .setup, main.content > .inner > .tabbar, main.content > .inner > .tabs, main.content > .inner > .infobar, main.content > .inner > [data-wide] { grid-column: 1 / -1; } } / Wide (capped) / fluid (full-width), the Zephyr control. ONE rule owns the cap so the toggle only has to set a mode, and every page inherits it without knowing it exists. / html[data-width="fluid"] main.content > .inner { max-width: none; } / WIDE MODE BUYS A SECOND COLUMN, ON EVERY PAGE (founder, 2026-09-03). The rule above removes the cap and nothing else, so on a 2560px screen a page with no side card became ONE ~2500px column of stacked cards - which is what "cards all over the place" looks like from the other direction. MEASURED that day: updates 6 cards / 0 side, compliance 6/0, settings 5/0, websites/[id]/files 5/0, traffic 3/0. Every one of them is single-column at any width, because the :has() rule above only gives a second column to a page that marked an aside - and most pages never did. ASKED AND ANSWERED: compact keeps the one readable column, wide gives two. NOT three. Three equal columns is auto-fit by another name, and auto-fit is the layout the founder rejected in August ("every fucking page is shity with cards all over the places") because nothing decides what belongs beside what - the viewport does. Gated at 1570px, the same width the toggle appears at: below that the button is hidden, so a rule keyed on a mode nobody can reach would be dead CSS. / @media (min-width: 1570px) { html[data-width="fluid"] main.content > .inner { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr)); } / A page that marked an aside has already decided which column carries the substance. Wide mode must not flatten that to two equal halves, or a rail holding four status lines grows to half the screen. / html[data-width="fluid"] main.content > .inner:has(> [data-region="side"], > .sidestack) { grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1.7fr) minmax(300px, 1fr); } / AND THE PIN HAS TO COME OFF, or the second track stays empty. Every unmarked card is pinned to grid-column 1 by the rule above, so without this the grid gets two tracks and everything still stacks in the first one - the change would look like it did nothing. Released ONLY on pages that mark nothing: where a page HAS an aside, that pin is exactly what keeps main and side apart. / / ...but NEVER a card the page explicitly called substance. A region of main is a decision a page made about its own content; auto-placing it would let the one card marked as the point of the page land in the second column. / html[data-width="fluid"] main.content > .inner:not(:has(> [data-region="side"], > .sidestack)) > [data-ui="card"]:not([data-region="main"]) { grid-column: auto; } } / The button appears only where it can do something. Below the point at which the cap actually bites — 1280 cap + 240 sidebar + 48 padding — both modes render identically, and a control that provably does nothing is worse than no control at all. / / THE INSPECTOR - a right-hand drawer, opened from the topbar. FOUNDER, 2026-09-03: "one idea we can create a sidebar in right side for something we can show nicely or for accessability", then "for sidebar on right opening by widget or something", then "choosable to be sticky or not stick like for particolar service vitals and all telemetry data". WHY THIS AND NOT A SECOND FIXED RAIL. A permanently visible rail is empty on most pages unless every page is given something to put in it, and an empty fixed rail looks broken in a way an absent one does not - it also narrows the content at every width, including 1570-1900 where the room is already tight. A drawer costs nothing when closed and cannot be empty, because it only opens when somebody asks it a question. PINNED IS THE FOUNDER'S "sticky": unpinned it floats over the page and a click outside closes it, which is right for a glance; pinned it stops floating and the page makes room, which is right for watching a number while working. The choice is per person and remembered. Pinning is refused below 1180px - the same width the second column appears at. Under that, taking 380px from the content would leave a strip, so the drawer stays an overlay however it was left. / .inspector { position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; z-index: 60; width: min(380px, 92vw); display: flex; flex-direction: column; background: var(--ui-surface); border-left: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); transform: translateX(101%); transition: transform .18s ease; / The border is the only thing separating it from the page underneath when it is pinned, so the shadow does the work while it floats. / box-shadow: -18px 0 40px rgba(0, 0, 0, .18); } .inspector[data-open="true"] { transform: none; } .inspector-head { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-2); padding: var(--s-3) var(--s-4); border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); } .inspector-head h2 { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-lg); font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-ink); flex: 1; min-width: 0; } .inspector-body { flex: 1; overflow-y: auto; padding: var(--s-4); } .inspector-body h3 { margin: 0 0 var(--s-2); font-size: var(--t-sm); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--ui-muted); } .inspector-body section + section { margin-top: var(--s-5); } .inspector-row { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; gap: var(--s-3); padding: var(--s-2) 0; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); font-size: var(--t-md); } .inspector-row:last-child { border-bottom: 0; } .inspector-row span { color: var(--ui-muted); min-width: 0; } .inspector-row b { font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-ink); text-align: right; } .inspector-empty { font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); margin: 0; } / PINNED: the page gives up the room instead of being covered. / @media (min-width: 1180px) { html[data-inspector="pinned"] .main { padding-right: min(380px, 92vw); } html[data-inspector="pinned"] .inspector { box-shadow: none; } } .inspector-scrim { position: fixed; inset: 0; z-index: 59; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .28); } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { .inspector { transition: none; } } .widthtoggle { display: none; } @media (min-width: 1570px) { .widthtoggle { display: inline-flex; } } .view-head { display: grid; grid-template-columns: minmax(0,1fr) auto; align-items: end; gap: var(--s-1) var(--s-4); } .view-head > .crumbs { grid-column: 1; grid-row: 1; } .view-head > h1 { grid-column: 1; grid-row: 2; min-width: 0; } .view-head > .sub { grid-column: 1; grid-row: 3; } .view-head > :not(h1):not(.sub):not(.crumbs) { grid-column: 2; grid-row: 1 / -1; justify-self: end; align-self: end; } / WHERE AM I. A detail page opened from a search result, a notification or a pasted link gave no way back to the list it belongs to except the browser's own button — and no indication that a list existed. One line, above the title, because that is where a reader looks for it. / .crumbs { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: 0 0 2px; font-size: var(--t-xs); color: var(--ui-faint); min-width: 0; } .crumbs a { color: var(--ui-muted); text-decoration: none; } .crumbs a:hover { color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); text-decoration: underline; } .crumbs .sep { color: var(--ui-faint); } / The current page is named but not a link — a crumb that navigates to where you already are is a dead control. / .crumbs > b { font-weight: 500; color: var(--ui-faint); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } .view-head .sub { font-size: var(--t-md); color: var(--ui-muted); margin: 0; max-width: 72ch; line-height: 1.5; } / The header's actions, when there is more than one. A detail page has a handful of verbs that belong to the whole page rather than to any card, and they sit together at the end of the header rather than being scattered through whichever card happened to own them. Wraps rather than overflows: at 375px four buttons become two rows, never a sideways scroll. / .headacts { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-2); flex-wrap: wrap; min-width: 0; } .headacts form { display: contents; } @media (max-width: 700px) { .view-head { grid-template-columns: minmax(0,1fr); } .view-head > :not(h1):not(.sub):not(.crumbs) { grid-column: 1; grid-row: auto; justify-self: start; } } / A page is sections, not a stack of equally-loud boxes. / .section { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--s-3); } .section > header { display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: var(--s-3); justify-content: space-between; } .section > header h2 { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-lg); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -.01em; } .section > header p { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); } .view-head .meta { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 7px; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 11.5px; color: var(--ui-muted); } .grid { display: grid; gap: 14px; } .grid.g2 { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0,1fr)); } .grid.g3 { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, minmax(0,1fr)); } .grid.g4 { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, minmax(0,1fr)); } .grid.g21 { grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr; } .grid.g12 { grid-template-columns: 1.2fr 1fr; } @media (max-width: 1080px) { .grid.g4 { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0,1fr)); } .grid.g2, .grid.g3, .grid.g21, .grid.g12 { grid-template-columns: 1fr; } } / ---- tabs (site detail and friends) ---- / .tabbar { display: flex; gap: 2px; background: var(--ui-surface); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: 10px; padding: 3px; overflow-x: auto; } .tabbar a { flex: none; padding: var(--ctl-sm-pad); border-radius: 8px; font-size: var(--ctl-sm-fs); font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-muted); white-space: nowrap; } .tabbar a:hover { color: var(--ui-ink); background: var(--ui-s2); } .tabbar a.on { color: var(--ui-ink); background: var(--ui-s3); } / ---- mobile ---- / .menu-btn { display: none; align-items: center; justify-content: center; width: 40px; height: 40px; border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: 9px; background: var(--ui-surface); color: var(--ui-ink); cursor: pointer; flex: none; } .backdrop { display: none; } @media (max-width: 900px) { .menu-btn { display: inline-flex; } .searchbox { width: auto; flex: 1; } .sidebar { position: fixed; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; height: 100vh; width: 264px; z-index: 40; transform: translateX(-100%); transition: transform .2s ease; box-shadow: 8px 0 24px rgba(0,0,0,.35); } body.nav-open .sidebar { transform: none; } body.nav-open .backdrop { display: block; position: fixed; inset: 0; background: rgba(0,0,0,.5); z-index: 30; } .nav-item { height: 44px; } .topbar { padding: 0 14px; gap: 10px; } main.content { padding: 14px 12px 28px; } .grid.g4 { grid-template-columns: 1fr; } } / Phones. The 900px block handles the sidebar; this one handles the topbar, which still overflowed by ~100px at 375px because two of its children cannot shrink: .searchbox gets flex:1 without min-width:0, and a flex item will not shrink below its own content without it. Same root cause as the command-palette label fix. / @media (max-width: 560px) { .searchbox { min-width: 0; } / The chip STAYS on a phone (founder, 2026-08-31). It was hidden as "a keyboard shortcut hint on a device with no keyboard", which is true of the shortcut and wrong about the chip: on a phone it is the only thing that makes a box with no caret look tappable. The modifier word is what is useless there, so that is what goes. / .searchbox kbd .kmod { display: none; } / Stat rows and form rows stack rather than squeezing into unreadable columns. / .statrow { grid-template-columns: 1fr; } .formrow { flex-direction: column; align-items: stretch; } / Long unbroken tokens - account ids, hostnames, manifest hashes - cannot wrap, and were pushing the PAGE wide. That is what made phones open "zoomed in": the viewport meta is correct, but content wider than the screen makes the browser widen the visual viewport to fit it. Tables already scroll inside their own wrapper; this is about the prose. / main.content { overflow-wrap: break-word; } / A whose options carry UUIDs is then wider than the grid, and the grid is wider than the screen - the same root cause as the topbar and the command palette, on a different axis. max-width:100% cannot fix it, because the parent is being sized BY the child it is supposed to constrain. / form > , .card > , .formrow > { min-width: 0; } select, textarea, input:not([type="checkbox"]):not([type="radio"]) { max-width: 100%; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; } /* Some pages wrap their tables in an overflow-x box and some do not, and on a phone that difference is the whole page going wide - /backups rendered 830px inside a 375px screen. Doing it here means a table added tomorrow cannot reintroduce it. display:block is what lets the table scroll itself; thead and tbody keep their table layout inside. / table { display: block; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 100%; } } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { .sidebar { transition: none; } } .banner-impersonate { background: var(--ui-warn); color: #fff; padding: .45rem 24px; font-size: .85rem; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; gap: 12px; } / ---- THE CONTROL SCALE ---- MEASURED ON /nodes, 2026-08-30: four different sizes for things that are all "a small pressable thing" — the primary button at 38px/13px, a chip at 28px/12px, a card action at 27px/11px, a tab at 33px/12.5px. Nothing chose four; each was written where it was needed and sized to look right on its own screen, which is exactly how a panel ends up looking, in the founder's words, like buttons all over the place. Two sizes is a scale. MD is a primary action; SM is every secondary control that sits in a header, a row or a filter bar, and those three now agree on height and type even where they keep their own shape — a chip stays a pill and a tab stays square, because those say what KIND of control it is, which is information. Size says how important it is, and there were only ever two answers to that. / :root { --ctl-md-fs: 13px; --ctl-md-pad: 8px 15px; --ctl-sm-fs: 12px; --ctl-sm-pad: 4px 11px; } / ---- components ---- / [data-ui="button"] { display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; font: inherit; font-size: var(--ctl-md-fs); font-weight: 600; cursor: pointer; padding: var(--ctl-md-pad); border-radius: 9px; border: 1px solid transparent; background: var(--ui-accent); color: #fff; } / On dark grounds the teal accent needs dark button text. Admin is dark unless light is chosen; customer is light unless dark is chosen. / / Dark ink belongs to the ACCENT-FILLED button only. Without the :not()s this rule outranks the ghost and danger variants on specificity (0-3-1 against 0-2-0), painting near-black text on a dark surface — every ghost button in the admin dark theme was invisible, and it went unnoticed because the light theme is fine and screenshots were taken there. / html:not([data-mode="light"]):not([data-view="customer"]) [data-ui="button"]:not([data-variant="ghost"]):not([data-variant="danger"]), html[data-view="customer"][data-mode="dark"] [data-ui="button"]:not([data-variant="ghost"]):not([data-variant="danger"]) { color: #06211d; } [data-ui="button"]:hover { background: var(--ui-accent-deep); } / PRESSED, AND STILL WORKING (founder, 2026-08-31). The spinner is drawn on the button itself rather than replacing its label: a control that empties while it works loses the word that told you what you pressed, which matters most on exactly the slow actions where you look away and come back. Disabled is set by the component, not by this rule — CSS can only make a double-press look impossible, not be impossible. / [data-ui="button"][data-busy]::before { content: ""; width: 12px; height: 12px; flex: 0 0 12px; border-radius: 50%; border: 2px solid currentColor; border-top-color: transparent; animation: ui-spin .6s linear infinite; } [data-ui="button"][data-busy] { cursor: progress; } / A disabled control must READ as disabled. Without this the button kept full contrast and its hover fill, so the only evidence it had stopped taking presses was that nothing happened - which is the symptom, not the signal. / [data-ui="button"]:disabled { opacity: .62; } [data-ui="button"]:disabled:not([data-busy]) { cursor: not-allowed; } [data-ui="button"]:disabled:hover { background: var(--ui-accent); } [data-ui="button"][data-variant="ghost"]:disabled:hover, [data-ui="button"][data-variant="danger"]:disabled:hover { background: inherit; } @keyframes ui-spin { to { transform: rotate(360deg); } } / Somebody who asked the operating system for less motion still needs to know the button is working, so the spinner stops turning and stays visible rather than disappearing. / @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { [data-ui="button"][data-busy]::before { animation: none; } } / ONE FOCUS RING, ON EVERYTHING THAT TAKES FOCUS. MEASURED 2026-08-30: the design system had exactly two focus rules - the button and the nav item - so links, chips, tabs, inputs, selects and disclosure summaries fell back to whatever the browser draws. That is not nothing, but it is a different indicator in a different colour on half the controls, which is the same "unconsidered" reading as the four button sizes. Drawn in --ui-link and NOT the accent, for the reason the two were split: a focus ring has to clear 3:1 against what surrounds it, and a brand accent chosen for recognition need not. The founder's gold is 2.93:1 - a focus indicator nobody can see is the accessibility failure that matters most, because it is the one a keyboard user cannot work around. / [data-ui="button"]:focus-visible, [data-ui="card-acts"] a:focus-visible, [data-ui="rowacts"] a:focus-visible, .chip:focus-visible, .tabbar a:focus-visible, .crumbs a:focus-visible, summary:focus-visible, a:focus-visible, input:focus-visible, select:focus-visible, textarea:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: var(--r-sm); } / An input already has a border, so the ring sits ON it rather than outside - an offset ring around a bordered field reads as two boxes. / input:focus-visible, select:focus-visible, textarea:focus-visible { outline-offset: 0; border-color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); } [data-ui="button"][data-variant="danger"] { background: var(--ui-surface); border-color: var(--ui-rule); color: var(--ui-danger); } [data-ui="button"][data-variant="danger"]:hover { background: var(--ui-bad-tint); } [data-ui="button"][data-variant="ghost"] { background: var(--ui-surface); color: var(--ui-ink); border-color: var(--ui-rule); } [data-ui="button"][data-variant="ghost"]:hover { background: var(--ui-s2); } [data-ui="button"]:disabled { opacity: .5; cursor: default; } [data-ui="card"] { background: var(--ui-surface); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: var(--r-lg); padding: var(--s-4) var(--s-5); min-width: 0; } / Three weights, because a page where everything is equally prominent has no subject. "primary" is the thing the page is about; "quiet" is context that should not compete; the default sits between them. / [data-ui="card"][data-tone="primary"] { border-color: var(--ui-rule-strong); box-shadow: 0 1px 0 var(--ui-rule-strong), 0 8px 24px rgba(0,0,0,.16); } [data-ui="card"][data-tone="quiet"] { background: transparent; border-style: dashed; } [data-ui="card"][data-tone="danger"] { border-color: var(--ui-danger); } [data-ui="card"][data-tone="warn"] { border-color: var(--ui-warn); } [data-ui="card"] + [data-ui="card"] { margin-top: 0; } [data-ui="card-head"] { display: flex; align-items: flex-start; justify-content: space-between; gap: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; } [data-ui="card-title"] { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-lg); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -.01em; } [data-ui="card-sub"] { font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); margin-top: 2px; max-width: 72ch; line-height: 1.45; } / flex:none meant a card's actions could never shrink, so a wide control in that slot — a filter tabbar with eight kinds — grew the card, the page and the document: measured at 1225px inside a 375px viewport on /search. It may shrink now, and anything scrollable in it (the tabbar already is) scrolls itself rather than the page. / [data-ui="card-acts"] { display: flex; gap: 6px; align-items: center; flex: 0 1 auto; min-width: 0; } [data-ui="card-acts"] > .tabbar { min-width: 0; } [data-ui="card-acts"] a { font-size: var(--ctl-sm-fs); font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-muted); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: 7px; padding: var(--ctl-sm-pad); } [data-ui="card-acts"] a:hover { color: var(--ui-ink); background: var(--ui-s2); } .sidestack, .mainstack { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 16px; min-width: 0; } [data-ui="statrow"] { display: flex; gap: 18px; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: var(--t-xs); color: var(--ui-faint); border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); margin-top: 8px; padding-top: 8px; flex-wrap: wrap; } [data-ui="statrow"] b { color: var(--ui-muted); font-weight: 600; } / A definition list of label-over-value pairs. Two node components were using a .statrow class that this system never defined, so they rendered as unstyled dl/dt/dd — part of why half the node page looked like a different product from the other half. / dl.statrow { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var(--s-4) var(--s-5); margin: 0 0 var(--s-3); border: 0; padding: 0; } dl.statrow > div { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 2px; } dl.statrow dt { font-size: var(--t-xs); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--ui-faint); } dl.statrow dd { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-md); color: var(--ui-ink); } .formrow { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); flex-wrap: wrap; } / USAGE METERS: what something is using against what it is allowed. A bar rather than a chart on purpose — this is one number against one ceiling, read at a glance, and reaching for ECharts to draw a rectangle would cost a mount and give nothing back. Used with no telemetry sink anywhere, because every value it shows is reported by the node itself. / [data-ui="meters"] { display: grid; gap: var(--s-3); margin: 0; } [data-ui="meter"] { display: grid; gap: 5px; min-width: 0; } [data-ui="meter"] .cap { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: baseline; gap: var(--s-3); font-size: var(--t-xs); min-width: 0; } [data-ui="meter"] .cap b { font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-muted); letter-spacing: .05em; text-transform: uppercase; } [data-ui="meter"] .cap span { font-family: var(--ui-mono); color: var(--ui-ink); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; white-space: nowrap; } [data-ui="meter"] .track { height: 7px; border-radius: 999px; background: var(--ui-neutral-tint); overflow: hidden; } [data-ui="meter"] .fill { height: 100%; border-radius: 999px; background: var(--ui-accent); transition: width .3s ease; } [data-ui="meter"][data-level="warn"] .fill { background: var(--ui-warn); } [data-ui="meter"][data-level="bad"] .fill { background: var(--ui-danger); } / No ceiling to measure against: show the reading, and a track that reads as "unbounded" rather than a bar sitting at zero, which looks like idle. / [data-ui="meter"][data-level="none"] .track { background: repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, var(--ui-neutral-tint) 0 6px, transparent 6px 12px); } [data-ui="meter"] .foot { font-size: var(--t-xs); color: var(--ui-faint); } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { [data-ui="meter"] .fill { transition: none; } } [data-ui="pill"] { display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 5px; font-size: 10.5px; font-weight: 600; padding: 2px 9px; border-radius: 999px; background: var(--ui-neutral-tint); color: var(--ui-muted); white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .04em; } [data-ui="pill"][data-state="active"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="verified"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="serving"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="ok"] { background: var(--ui-good-tint); color: var(--ui-good); } [data-ui="pill"][data-state="suspended"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="stale"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="unprotected"] { background: var(--ui-warn-tint); color: var(--ui-warn); } [data-ui="pill"][data-state="provisioning"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="pending"] { background: var(--ui-accent-tint); color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); } / A pill can also be told its TONE directly. data-state maps a known word to a colour, which works while the vocabulary is fixed; a verdict computed at read time ("Cert 9d", "No backup") has no such word, and inventing one per case is how the state list grew a synonym for every page. / [data-ui="pill"][data-tone="ok"] { background: var(--ui-good-tint); color: var(--ui-good); } [data-ui="pill"][data-tone="warn"] { background: var(--ui-warn-tint); color: var(--ui-warn); } [data-ui="pill"][data-tone="bad"] { background: var(--ui-bad-tint); color: var(--ui-danger); } [data-ui="pill"][data-tone="dim"] { background: var(--ui-neutral-tint); color: var(--ui-muted); } / A wrapping row of pills — group headings, tags, anything countable and removable. Its own rule rather than a bare
because a list of pills keeps its bullets and its indent otherwise. / .chiprow { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var(--s-2); list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 0 0 var(--s-3); min-width: 0; } / A row for something deliberately switched off (Wave 8, task 20). Dimmed, never hidden: it is a thing somebody means to switch back on, and a list that drops it is a list they cannot find it in. The link stays at full strength so the way back in is not the dimmest thing on the row. / tr[data-off] > td { opacity: .55; } tr[data-off] > td a { opacity: 1; } [data-ui="pill"][data-state="failed"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="dead"] { background: var(--ui-bad-tint); color: var(--ui-danger); } / THE VOCABULARIES THE PILL WAS ACTUALLY HANDED AND NEVER STYLED. The jobs queue says succeeded/running/queued/cancelled, the process card says crash-looping, the app catalogue says detected/installed — and every one rendered as the neutral grey above, so a crash-looping process and a succeeded job wore the same colour. The .headacts defect, in the one namespace guard-classes did not check (it validates class names and tokens, not data-* VALUES against selectors). / [data-ui="pill"][data-state="succeeded"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="installed"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="delivering"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="signed"] { background: var(--ui-good-tint); color: var(--ui-good); } [data-ui="pill"][data-state="running"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="queued"], [data-ui="pill"][data-state="detected"] { background: var(--ui-accent-tint); color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); } [data-ui="pill"][data-state="crash-looping"] { background: var(--ui-bad-tint); color: var(--ui-danger); } / cancelled/unknown/inherited stay deliberately neutral: none of them is good, bad or in flight, and colouring them would invent a verdict. / [data-ui="kpi"] [data-ui="kpi-label"] { font-size: 10.5px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: .07em; color: var(--ui-muted); text-transform: uppercase; } [data-ui="kpi-row"] { display: flex; align-items: flex-end; justify-content: space-between; gap: 8px; } [data-ui="kpi"] [data-ui="kpi-value"] { font-size: 24px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -.02em; padding-top: 2px; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; } [data-ui="kpi-spark"] { width: 104px; height: 30px; flex: none; } [data-ui="kpi"] [data-ui="kpi-sub"] { font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 10.5px; color: var(--ui-muted); margin-top: 2px; } [data-ui="kpi"] [data-ui="kpi-sub"][data-tone="good"] { color: var(--ui-good); } [data-ui="kpi"] [data-ui="kpi-sub"][data-tone="warn"] { color: var(--ui-warn); } [data-ui="kpi"] [data-ui="kpi-sub"][data-tone="bad"] { color: var(--ui-danger); } table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; } / data-ui="table" marks one of OUR tables rather than an arbitrary one. Twelve places wrote it and nothing defined it, so it had been decorative since the day it was first used - found when the class guard learned to read data-ui as a selector rather than as anything that appears in the markup. It carries the same treatment as a bare table plus the horizontal scroll these all need: they sit inside cards, hold user data of unknown width, and a wide one otherwise widens the page (min-width:0, for the sixth time). / [data-ui="table"] { display: block; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 100%; } [data-ui="table"] > tbody, [data-ui="table"] > thead { display: table; width: 100%; } / A block inside a card that needs its own separated area - a nested list, a preview - without becoming a second card. / [data-ui="card-inner"] { border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: var(--r-sm); padding: var(--s-3); background: var(--ui-s2); min-width: 0; } th { text-align: left; font-size: var(--t-xs); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: .06em; color: var(--ui-faint); text-transform: uppercase; padding: var(--s-2) var(--s-3) var(--s-2) 0; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ui-rule-strong); / A header that top-aligns while its column bottom-aligns is why the fleet table read as three unrelated rows. / vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; } th.num, td.num { text-align: right; } td { padding: var(--s-3) var(--s-3) var(--s-3) 0; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); font-size: var(--t-md); vertical-align: middle; } / A cell whose content wraps to three lines used to leave every other column floating at the top of the row — /nodes, where the roles cell carries six pills and three lines of placement text. Middle alignment on BOTH halves is the fix, and it is why this belongs here rather than in that page. / th:last-child, td:last-child { padding-right: 0; } tr:last-child td { border-bottom: 0; } tbody tr:hover td { background: var(--ui-s2); } / Wide content scrolls inside its own box, never the page. Some pages did this and some did not, which on a phone was the difference between a readable table and the whole document going 830px wide. / .tablewrap { overflow-x: auto; max-width: 100%; } / THE ROW MENU WAS BEING CUT OFF BY THE TABLE IT BELONGS TO. FOUNDER, 2026-08-31: "when i click on the tree dots for options it comes out card with links but its burried behind the table itself". It is CLIPPING, not stacking, which is why the menu's z-index of 20 never helped: overflow-x:auto makes this element a clipping container, and an absolutely positioned descendant is cut to its box. On the last row of any table the menu opens below the wrapper's bottom edge and is therefore invisible - the rows most likely to be acted on. CSS gives no way to scroll one axis and overflow the other: a spec rule says that when one axis is not visible, a visible on the other computes to auto. So the clip has to be lifted WHILE a menu is open, which :has() can express with no JavaScript - keeping RowMenu the server-renderable
it was built as. A table wide enough to need the scrollbar may overflow its card for as long as the menu is open, which is a visible trade and the right way round: a menu that is briefly beside a wide table beats a menu nobody can see. / .tablewrap:has(.rowmenu[open]) { overflow: visible; } / Sticky headers are the same story: max-height makes a second clip. / .tablewrap[data-sticky]:has(.rowmenu[open]) { overflow: visible; max-height: none; } / Above the sticky header (z-index 1) and anything else in a card. / .rowmenu[open] { z-index: 30; } / A long table keeps its headers while you read it. / .tablewrap[data-sticky] { max-height: 70vh; overflow-y: auto; } .tablewrap[data-sticky] thead th { position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 1; background: var(--ui-surface); } / Density is a property of the table, not of the page that happens to hold it: a fleet of 200 and a list of 3 want different answers. / table[data-density="compact"] td { padding: var(--s-2) var(--s-3) var(--s-2) 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); } table[data-density="roomy"] td { padding: var(--s-4) var(--s-3) var(--s-4) 0; } / Cells that hold a set of things — roles, tags, addresses — rather than one value. Without this the pills wrap into a ragged block and drag the row. / .listbar { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: var(--s-3); } .listbar-form { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-2); flex-wrap: wrap; min-width: 0; } .listbar-q { min-width: 0; width: 15rem; } .listbar-clear { font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); } .listbar-right { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); margin-left: auto; } .listbar-count { font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; white-space: nowrap; } / The column chooser.
so it needs no JavaScript and works in a server component - the RowMenu precedent. / .colpick { position: relative; } .colpick > summary { list-style: none; cursor: pointer; } .colpick > summary::-webkit-details-marker { display: none; } .colpick-menu { position: absolute; right: 0; top: calc(100% + var(--s-2)); z-index: 30; min-width: 12rem; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--s-2); padding: var(--s-3); background: var(--ui-surface); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule-strong); border-radius: var(--r-md); box-shadow: 0 14px 40px rgba(0,0,0,.35); } .colpick-menu label { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-2); font-size: var(--t-sm); white-space: nowrap; cursor: pointer; } .colpick-acts { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); padding-top: var(--s-2); border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); } .colpick-acts a { font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); } .pager { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-4); flex-wrap: wrap; padding-top: var(--s-3); margin-top: var(--s-3); border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; } .pager-per { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-2); } .pager-per a { color: var(--ui-muted); } .pager-per a.on { color: var(--ui-ink); font-weight: 600; text-decoration: underline; } .pager-nav { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); margin-left: auto; } .pager-nav b { color: var(--ui-ink); font-weight: 600; } .pager-nav .off { opacity: .4; } / Selection. The bar only exists when something is ticked — a permanent toolbar of actions that do nothing yet is furniture. / .bulkbar { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); flex-wrap: wrap; background: var(--ui-accent-tint); border: 1px solid var(--ui-accent); border-radius: var(--r-md); padding: var(--s-2) var(--s-3); font-size: var(--t-sm); } .bulkbar b { font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; } td.pick, th.pick { width: 28px; padding-right: var(--s-2); } tr[data-picked="1"] td { background: var(--ui-accent-tint); } td .cellset { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var(--s-1); align-items: center; } / Sortable column headers. A caret that only appears on the sorted column is a control nobody discovers, so every sortable header carries one. / th a.sort { color: inherit; display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 4px; } th a.sort:hover { color: var(--ui-ink); } th a.sort::after { content: "↕"; opacity: .35; font-size: 10px; } th a.sort[data-dir="asc"]::after { content: "↑"; opacity: 1; color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); } th a.sort[data-dir="desc"]::after { content: "↓"; opacity: 1; color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); } / ---- row overflow menu ---- /accounts rendered "Sign in as" and "Suspend" as two full buttons PER ROW; at ten accounts that is twenty buttons competing with the data. Built on
so it needs no JavaScript, works in a server component, closes on Escape and is keyboard-operable for free. / .rowmenu { position: relative; display: inline-block; } .rowmenu > summary { list-style: none; cursor: pointer; width: 28px; height: 28px; border-radius: var(--r-sm); display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; color: var(--ui-muted); font-size: 15px; line-height: 1; user-select: none; } .rowmenu > summary::-webkit-details-marker { display: none; } .rowmenu > summary:hover { background: var(--ui-s2); color: var(--ui-ink); } .rowmenu[open] > summary { background: var(--ui-s3); color: var(--ui-ink); } / width: max-content, because an absolutely-positioned box anchored right:0 inside a 28px trigger shrinks to its containing block and wraps every label longer than a word or two - "Suspend this account and everything beneath it" rendered as three lines with the chevron stranded on a fourth (seen on /accounts, 2026-09-07). A menu item is one line, always. / .rowmenu .items { position: absolute; right: 0; top: calc(100% + 4px); min-width: 190px; width: max-content; max-width: 360px; background: var(--ui-surface); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule-strong); border-radius: var(--r-md); box-shadow: 0 14px 40px rgba(0,0,0,.35); z-index: 20; padding: var(--s-1); display: flex; flex-direction: column; } .rowmenu .items > { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-2); padding: 7px 10px; border-radius: var(--r-sm); font-size: var(--t-md); color: var(--ui-ink); background: transparent; border: 0; cursor: pointer; text-align: left; width: 100%; white-space: nowrap; } .rowmenu .items > :hover { background: var(--ui-s2); } / A destructive item is separated and coloured, so it cannot be hit on the way to the one above it. / .rowmenu .items hr { border: 0; border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); margin: var(--s-1) 0; } .rowmenu .items .danger { color: var(--ui-danger); } .rowmenu .items .danger:hover { background: var(--ui-bad-tint); } / ---- empty / loading states inside a card ---- / .emptystate { display: flex; flex-direction: column; align-items: flex-start; gap: var(--s-2); padding: var(--s-3) 0; } / A chart's zero state keeps the frame — charts never hide at zero, that rule stands — but it stops reserving 200px of empty grid to say one sentence. The dashboard gave more vertical space to "no telemetry sink connected" than to any real content on the page. / .chartempty { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); min-height: 76px; padding: var(--s-3) var(--s-4); border: 1px dashed var(--ui-rule-strong); border-radius: var(--r-md); background: var(--ui-ground); } .chartempty .icon { width: 26px; height: 26px; flex: none; opacity: .5; } .chartempty p { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); line-height: 1.45; } .chartempty b { color: var(--ui-ink); font-weight: 600; display: block; font-size: var(--t-md); } .emptystate p { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-md); color: var(--ui-muted); max-width: 60ch; line-height: 1.5; } .emptystate .what { font-size: var(--t-md); color: var(--ui-ink); font-weight: 600; } .mono { font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 12px; } / ---- file manager: columns, the way a Finder shows a directory ---- FOUNDER, 2026-08-31: "one idea like Mac OS folders" and "good for developers ... to be able to code nicely". A site tree is shallow and wide, so columns keep the path, the folder and its neighbours on screen at once - which is the thing a one-folder-at-a-time listing throws away on every click. / .fm { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--s-3); min-width: 0; } .fm-bar { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-3); flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: space-between; } .fm-crumbs { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 12px; color: var(--ui-faint); min-width: 0; } .fm-crumbs button { background: none; border: 0; padding: 2px 4px; font: inherit; color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); cursor: pointer; border-radius: var(--r-sm); } .fm-crumbs button.on { color: var(--ui-ink); cursor: default; } .fm-crumbs button:hover:not(.on) { background: var(--ui-s2); } .fm-acts { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--s-2); } .fm-state { font-size: var(--t-xs); color: var(--ui-muted); font-family: var(--ui-mono); } .fm-note { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); } .fm-warn { margin: 0; padding: 8px 12px; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-warn); background: var(--ui-warn-tint); border-radius: var(--r-sm); } / The strip scrolls horizontally and NOTHING else does: min-width:0 on the columns, or one long filename widens the card, the page and the document - the defect measured five times on this project. / .fm-strip { display: flex; gap: 0; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: var(--r-md); background: var(--ui-surface); min-width: 0; } .fm-col { flex: 0 0 250px; min-width: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; border-right: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); max-height: 62vh; } .fm-col ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 4px; overflow-y: auto; flex: 1; } .fm-col li { min-width: 0; } .fm-row { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; width: 100%; min-width: 0; background: none; border: 0; padding: 5px 8px; border-radius: var(--r-sm); font: inherit; font-size: 12.5px; color: var(--ui-ink); cursor: pointer; text-align: left; } .fm-row:hover { background: var(--ui-s2); } .fm-row.on { background: var(--ui-accent); color: #fff; } html:not([data-mode="light"]):not([data-view="customer"]) .fm-row.on, html[data-view="customer"][data-mode="dark"] .fm-row.on { color: #06211d; } .fm-ico { flex: none; width: 12px; color: var(--ui-faint); font-size: 11px; } .fm-row.on .fm-ico { color: inherit; } / The filename truncates; the column does not grow to fit it. / .fm-name { flex: 1 1 auto; min-width: 0; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } .fm-size { flex: none; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 10.5px; color: var(--ui-faint); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; } .fm-row.on .fm-size { color: inherit; opacity: .8; } / A file the platform renders. Marked, never hidden - seeing it is how somebody learns we manage it, and editing one silently reverts. / .fm-owned { flex: none; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 9.5px; letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--ui-warn); border: 1px solid currentColor; border-radius: 3px; padding: 0 4px; } .fm-empty { margin: 0; padding: 14px 12px; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); } .fm-colfoot { border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); padding: 6px; } .fm-mini { display: flex; gap: 4px; } .fm-mini input { flex: 1 1 auto; min-width: 0; font-size: 11.5px; padding: 3px 6px; } / LIST VIEW (founder, 2026-09-02: "why we cant click twice on folder and go inside - why we opening new column?"). One folder at a time, the way every desktop file browser he has used works: single click selects, double click or Enter opens, an up-row goes back. Columns stay one toggle away, and the choice is remembered per browser. The list column is wider than a Finder column because it is the only one on screen. / .fm-view { display: inline-flex; border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: var(--r-sm); overflow: hidden; flex: none; } .fm-view button { background: none; border: 0; padding: 3px 10px; font: inherit; font-size: var(--t-xs); color: var(--ui-muted); cursor: pointer; } .fm-view button + button { border-left: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); } .fm-view button[aria-pressed="true"] { background: var(--ui-s2); color: var(--ui-ink); cursor: default; } .fm-col.fm-list { flex: 1 1 380px; max-width: 560px; } / The row that goes up one folder: dimmer than an entry, still a row. / .fm-row.fm-up { color: var(--ui-muted); font-style: italic; } .fm-row.fm-up:hover { color: var(--ui-ink); } / The editor pane is the widest thing here and takes the room. / .fm-pane { flex: 1 1 560px; min-width: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-height: 62vh; } .fm-panehead { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between; gap: var(--s-3); padding: 8px 12px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); } .fm-panehead b { font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 12.5px; min-width: 0; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } .fm-panebtns { display: flex; gap: var(--s-2); flex: none; } .cm-host { flex: 1; min-height: 340px; overflow: auto; } .fm-help { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-xs); color: var(--ui-faint); } / The pane when nothing is open. It exists so the card is not two thirds empty grey - measured on the live platform, one 250px column inside 1100px. / .fm-idle { padding: 22px 24px; gap: 8px; justify-content: center; color: var(--ui-muted); } .fm-idle p { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); } .fm-idle b { color: var(--ui-ink); } .fm-keys { color: var(--ui-faint); } .fm-keys b { font-family: var(--ui-mono); color: var(--ui-muted); font-weight: 500; } / A strip that always has a pane needs a floor, or three files make a card 90px tall with a scrollbar. / .fm-strip { min-height: 320px; } .fm-help b { font-family: var(--ui-mono); color: var(--ui-muted); font-weight: 500; } / Search results: one file per line, path first because that is what somebody scans for. / .hitlist { list-style: none; margin: var(--s-3) 0 0; padding: 0; display: grid; gap: 4px; } .hitlist li { font-size: var(--t-sm); min-width: 0; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } / The ACME preflight: one line per step of the challenge path, each carrying what happened rather than a tick. A step that passed is as informative as one that failed - it is how somebody knows the problem is the LAST step and not everything. / .preflight { list-style: none; margin: var(--s-3) 0 0; padding: 0; display: grid; gap: var(--s-2); } .preflight li { display: grid; gap: 2px; padding: 8px 12px; border-radius: var(--r-sm); border-left: 3px solid var(--ui-rule-strong); background: var(--ui-s2); } .preflight li[data-verdict="ok"] { border-left-color: var(--ui-good); } .preflight li[data-verdict="bad"] { border-left-color: var(--ui-danger); } .preflight .what { font-size: var(--t-sm); font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-ink); } .preflight .why { font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); line-height: 1.5; } / ---- a task that runs without moving the page (founder, 2026-08-31) ---- / .taskform { display: grid; gap: 8px; } .taskform > form { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var(--s-2); align-items: flex-end; } / In a table cell the button usually sits in a strip of inline siblings (Settings · Export · Suspend). A block grid would push it onto its own line, so inside a cell it flows inline; the note or error still opens below the button, inside the grid. / td .taskform { display: inline-grid; vertical-align: middle; } / A secondary action that is genuinely secondary: the fallback beside a primary button, where a second button would read as an equal choice. Drawn in --ui-link rather than the accent, for the v0.99.0 reason - the accent is chosen to be recognisable and a link colour has to be readable. / .linkish { background: none; border: 0; padding: 0; font: inherit; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-link); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline; text-underline-offset: 2px; } .linkish:hover:not(:disabled) { text-decoration-thickness: 2px; } .linkish:disabled { color: var(--ui-faint); cursor: default; text-decoration: none; } .taskerr { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-danger); line-height: 1.5; } .taskok { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-good); line-height: 1.5; } / The armed-confirmation sentence: inline with the buttons it governs, in the danger colour because it is the last thing read before a destructive click. flex-basis 100% puts it on its own line above the pair without leaving the form's flex flow. / .taskconfirm { flex-basis: 100%; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-danger); line-height: 1.5; } / An armed confirm outside a TaskForm: the sentence takes its own line, the Confirm/Cancel pair stays where the original button was. / .armedrow { display: inline-flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 6px; align-items: center; } / INDETERMINATE ON PURPOSE. The work continues on a node we are not watching, so a bar that pretends to know how far along it is would be a worse lie than one that only says "still going". / .taskbar { height: 3px; border-radius: 999px; background: var(--ui-s3); overflow: hidden; position: relative; } .taskbar::after { content: ""; position: absolute; inset: 0; width: 38%; border-radius: 999px; background: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); animation: ui-slide 1.1s ease-in-out infinite; } @keyframes ui-slide { 0% { transform: translateX(-100%); } 100% { transform: translateX(300%); } } / Somebody who asked for less motion still needs to know it is working, so the bar stops sliding and stays visible rather than disappearing. / @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { .taskbar::after { animation: none; width: 100%; opacity: .5; } } / ---- the confirmation that has nowhere to unfold (founder, 2026-09-06) ---- The armed shapes above are right where they live: a button in a card, with room beside it for the sentence. A button in a TABLE ROW has neither - the row is the one place in this panel with no width and its own scroll axis - and the inline confirm measured 95px wide and 421px tall at 375px, off the bottom of the screen and 182px along a sideways scroll. So a row's destructive action confirms in a modal instead; ConfirmDialog owns it. The dialog element is the whole viewport and TRANSPARENT, with the panel inside it. That is what makes a press on the backdrop identifiable: it is the only press whose target is the dialog itself. / .dlg[open] { display: flex; } .dlg { position: fixed; inset: 0; width: 100%; max-width: 100%; height: 100%; max-height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; background: transparent; / Bottom of the screen on a phone, because that is where a thumb is. / align-items: flex-end; justify-content: center; } .dlg::backdrop { background: rgba(4, 10, 12, .62); } / The page behind a modal must not scroll under it. Asked of the DOM rather than set from JavaScript: an effect that writes body.style.overflow has to undo itself on every exit path, and the one it misses leaves the panel unscrollable with nothing on screen to explain why. / html:has(dialog.dlg[open]) { overflow: hidden; } .dlg-panel { width: 100%; max-height: 92vh; overflow-y: auto; box-sizing: border-box; background: var(--ui-surface); border: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); border-radius: var(--r-lg) var(--r-lg) 0 0; padding: var(--s-4); display: grid; gap: var(--s-3); box-shadow: 0 -12px 40px rgba(0, 0, 0, .38); / THE TOP LAYER IS NOT A NEW INHERITANCE ROOT. A modal dialog paints above everything, which reads as detached — but it still inherits from wherever it sits in the DOM, and a row action sits in the last cell of a table, which this design system right-aligns. Seen in a browser before it was believed: every sentence in the delete dialog was ragged-LEFT, with "backup." alone against the right edge. Anything a dialog can inherit from a cell has to be stated here. / text-align: start; white-space: normal; color: var(--ui-ink); font-size: var(--t-md); } / Focus lands here when the dialog has no field to aim at, and a focus ring drawn round the whole sheet says nothing useful. / .dlg-panel:focus { outline: none; } / What kind of answer this is asking for, before the words are read. / .dlg-panel[data-tone="danger"] { border-top: 3px solid var(--ui-danger); } .dlg-panel[data-tone="primary"] { border-top: 3px solid var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); } @media (min-width: 620px) { .dlg { align-items: center; } .dlg-panel { width: min(520px, calc(100vw - 48px)); border-radius: var(--r-lg); box-shadow: 0 18px 60px rgba(0, 0, 0, .42); } } .dlg-head { display: flex; align-items: flex-start; justify-content: space-between; gap: var(--s-3); } .dlg-head h2 { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-lg); font-weight: 600; color: var(--ui-ink); line-height: 1.35; } .dlg-x { flex: none; background: none; border: 0; padding: 0; width: 32px; height: 32px; border-radius: var(--r-sm); font-size: var(--t-xl); line-height: 1; color: var(--ui-muted); cursor: pointer; } .dlg-x:hover:not(:disabled) { background: var(--ui-s2); color: var(--ui-ink); } .dlg-x:disabled { opacity: .5; cursor: default; } .dlg-body { display: grid; gap: var(--s-3); font-size: var(--t-md); color: var(--ui-muted); line-height: 1.55; } .dlg-body p { margin: 0; max-width: none; } / The paths an unpack would overwrite. Scrolls rather than growing the dialog: an archive that clashes on four hundred files must not push the buttons off a phone screen, which is the failure the dialog itself was built to end. / .dlg-list { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 var(--s-4); max-height: 30vh; overflow-y: auto; font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); display: grid; gap: 2px; } .dlg-body b { color: var(--ui-ink); } / A labelled field in a dialog. Its own idiom rather than .field, because a dialog is not a form grid and the label wants the full width. / .dlg-field { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--s-1); min-width: 0; } .dlg-field > span { font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-muted); } .dlg-field > input { width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; } .dlg-err { margin: 0; font-size: var(--t-sm); color: var(--ui-danger); line-height: 1.5; } .dlg-acts { display: flex; gap: var(--s-2); justify-content: flex-end; flex-wrap: wrap; } / On a phone the two answers are half the row each, so neither is a 72px target at the bottom of a sheet. / @media (max-width: 619px) { .dlg-acts > [data-ui="button"] { flex: 1 1 0; justify-content: center; } } / On a phone the strip is one column at a time, which is what a phone can show; the editor takes the whole width under it. / @media (max-width: 700px) { .fm-col { flex: 0 0 82vw; } .fm-pane { flex: 0 0 92vw; } } / A form folded into a card that is mostly a list - the add-record form on a website's Domains tab. The summary is a control, so it gets the same focus ring as everything else that takes focus. / .addrec { margin-top: var(--s-4); border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); padding-top: var(--s-3); } .addrec > summary { cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: var(--t-sm); list-style: none; } .addrec > summary::-webkit-details-marker { display: none; } .addrec > summary::before { content: "+ "; color: var(--ui-link, var(--ui-accent)); } .addrec[open] > summary::before { content: "2 "; } .dim { color: var(--ui-muted); } .tnote { font-size: 11.5px; color: var(--ui-faint); padding-top: 8px; } .feed { display: flex; flex-direction: column; } .feed > div { display: flex; gap: 10px; align-items: flex-start; padding: 8px 0; border-top: 1px solid var(--ui-rule); } .feed > div:first-child { border-top: 0; } .feed .dot { margin-top: 5px; } .feed p { margin: 0; flex: 1; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.45; } .feed time { font-family: var(--ui-mono); font-size: 10.5px; color: var(--ui-faint); white-space: nowrap; } / FOUNDER, 2026-08-29: "90% of buttons does not render/look good no spacing between them - i still see button on left side instead all aligned on right". This rule was the cause of the first half. A display:inline form makes its button an inline box with no spacing of its own, so two actions side by side were separated by whatever literal space happened to sit between the JSX tags - one space, or none at the end of a line. inline-flex keeps the form flowing with the text around it while giving the button a real box and a real gap. / form.inline { display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; vertical-align: middle; } form.inline + form.inline, form.inline + button, button + form.inline { margin-left: 8px; } / And the second half: a card's own actions belong in a row at the END of it, aligned right, wrapping on a narrow screen rather than widening the card. Buttons scattered at the left margin of a card body read as leftovers; a deliberate row reads as the thing you do here. / [data-ui="rowacts"] { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: flex-end; align-items: center; gap: 8px; margin-top: 14px; min-width: 0; } [data-ui="rowacts"] > form { margin: 0; } [data-ui="rowacts"][data-align="start"] { justify-content: flex-start; } / A card's action belongs at its end, not at its left margin. FOUNDER, 2026-08-29: "i still see button on left side instead all aligned on right". Explicit rowacts fixes the cards that were touched; there are around a hundred that were not, each with a lone submit button sitting where the text starts, reading as something left behind rather than the thing you do here. Done as a RULE rather than a hundred edits: a form whose only content is a button is unambiguously an action, and :has lets the stylesheet say exactly that. Scoped to a card's direct children so a button inside a fieldgrid, a table row or an inline sentence is untouched - those are deliberate, and the difference between them and this is structural rather than a matter of taste. / [data-ui="card"] > form:has(> button:only-child), [data-ui="card"] > form:has(> [data-ui="button"]:only-child) { display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; margin-top: 12px; } / ...except when it flows inside text, which is what .inline means. / [data-ui="card"] > form.inline { display: inline-flex; margin-top: 0; } / ONE RULE FOR EVERY ACTION IN A CARD. FOUNDER, 2026-09-04: "you still cant produce one code line that rules all buttons in kstack you keep doing button by button". He is right, and the button-by-button history is visible in this file: a header slot (card-acts), an explicit row (rowacts), a .sitecard-only .acts, and a 2026-08-29 rule for the one shape of lone-button FORM. Each fixed what was in front of somebody. Every shape nobody had touched stayed at the left margin, which is why he has raised it repeatedly. So: the card is a flex column, and ANYTHING that is purely an action goes to its end - a bare button, a form holding only a button (whether or not it is marked .inline, which was being used as a layout hack on buttons that end a card), and a row whose children are all buttons, links or chips. That last one is expressible: has an action, and has no child that is not one. What is deliberately NOT caught: a button inside a fieldgrid, a table row or a sentence. Those sit where they do because of what surrounds them, and the difference is structural rather than a matter of taste. / [data-ui="card"] { display: flex; flex-direction: column; } [data-ui="card"] > button, [data-ui="card"] > [data-ui="button"], [data-ui="card"] > div:has(> button, > [data-ui="button"], > .chip):not(:has(> :not(button):not(a):not(form):not(.chip):not(span))) { align-self: flex-end; margin-top: 12px; width: fit-content; max-width: 100%; } / AND AT ANY DEPTH, because the wrappers are not consistent either: the backups form puts its submit inside a
inside a
, so a rule scoped to a card's direct children could never see it. A wrapper whose ONLY child is a button is an action row wherever it sits - that is what makes this one rule rather than one per shape. :only-child is what keeps it safe: a table cell with Restart/Log/Errors, a fieldgrid, or a button in a sentence all have siblings and are untouched. / [data-ui="card"] p:has(> button:only-child), [data-ui="card"] p:has(> [data-ui="button"]:only-child), [data-ui="card"] div:has(> button:only-child), [data-ui="card"] div:has(> [data-ui="button"]:only-child) { display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; margin-top: 12px; } / A FORM IS AN ACTION WHEN THERE IS NOTHING IN IT TO FILL IN. Not ":only-child", and not "contains only buttons" - both were tried and both left buttons at the left margin, which is why the founder raised this five times. A React server-action form carries HIDDEN inputs beside its button; an in-place form carries a where the outcome appears; and plenty of them carry a paragraph explaining what the button does. None of those is something a person fills in. SO ASK THE ONE QUESTION THAT DECIDES IT: does this form contain a field? No field anywhere means the button is the whole point of the form, and it belongs at the card's right edge with every other action on the page. AND THE BUTTON MOVES, NOT THE FORM. Right-aligning the FORM drags whatever else is in it along - measured 2026-09-04, "Give me an address I can use now" ended up 466px from the edge with its own explanatory paragraph right-aligned beside it. An auto left margin on the button alone leaves the prose exactly where it was. / [data-ui="card"] form:not(:has(input:not([type="hidden"]), select, textarea)) > button, [data-ui="card"] form:not(:has(input:not([type="hidden"]), select, textarea)) > [data-ui="button"] { / display:flex, not the inline-flex a Button carries: an auto margin on an inline-level box computes to zero. / margin-left: auto; display: flex; width: fit-content; max-width: 100%; } [data-ui="card"] form:not(:has(input:not([type="hidden"]), select, textarea)):has(> button, > [data-ui="button"]) { max-width: none; margin-top: 12px; } / AND WHEN A WRAPPER STANDS BETWEEN THEM. TaskForm renders
, so neither the "wrapper whose only child is a button" rule nor the form rule can see the pair - the div's only child is a form, and the form's parent is a grid that has already shrunk to the button's width. Measured: "Request a wildcard certificate" sat at the right edge of a 268px wrapper inside a 791px row, which is 160px short of the card. Ask the same question one level out: is this wrapper's only child a form with nothing to fill in? / / :has() MAY NOT BE NESTED INSIDE :has(). The first version of this asked ".taskform:has(> form:only-child:not(:has(input, select, textarea)))" and the browser threw the WHOLE rule away as an invalid selector - silently, which is why the measurement did not move and looked like the rule was simply wrong. Ask the wrapper directly instead: one :has, inside one :not, with nothing nested. / [data-ui="card"] .taskform:not(:has(input:not([type="hidden"]), select, textarea)) { margin-left: auto; } / A bulk bar's action is still an action. / [data-ui="card"] .bulkbar > button:last-child, [data-ui="card"] .bulkbar > [data-ui="button"]:last-child { margin-left: auto; } / A form with FIELDS is not an action row - but its submit still belongs at the end rather than under the first label. / [data-ui="card"] form > p:last-child:has(> button:only-child), [data-ui="card"] form > p:last-child:has(> [data-ui="button"]:only-child) { display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; } / AND IT MUST REACH THE CARD'S EDGE, which is the half that was missing and the reason the founder kept seeing left-aligned buttons after each fix. FOUNDER, 2026-09-04: "for example Open site / Suspend / Deprovision - this buttons top right corner how they are aligned to right but non of other button bellow are aligned to right ?" MEASURED, and he was right about every one: Apply sat 679px from its card's right edge, Save jobs 1762px, Add a route 1751px. The rules above WERE right-aligning them - inside a container capped at prose width. A card's paragraphs are max-width:78ch so text stays readable, and a fieldgrid is capped at 1180px so a form does not become ten columns; an action row that inherits either right-aligns into the middle of the card, which reads as not aligned at all. Prose caps belong to prose. An action row spans the card. / [data-ui="card"] p:has(> button:only-child), [data-ui="card"] p:has(> [data-ui="button"]:only-child), [data-ui="card"] div:has(> button:only-child), [data-ui="card"] div:has(> [data-ui="button"]:only-child), [data-ui="card"] form:has(> button, > [data-ui="button"]):not(:has(> :not(button):not([data-ui="button"]):not(input[type="hidden"]):not(span[role]))), [data-ui="card"] form > p:last-child:has(> button:only-child), [data-ui="card"] form > p:last-child:has(> [data-ui="button"]:only-child), [data-ui="rowacts"] { max-width: none; width: auto; } / A FORM WITH FIELDS: THE SUBMIT STILL REACHES THE EDGE, IF IT IS ON ITS OWN LINE. Two shapes wear the same markup and want opposite things, and getting that backwards is what produced both complaints in one day: - A ROW.
input, select, submit - the submit acts on the fields BESIDE it. Pushing it to the card's edge left "Clone to staging" 1300px from its own database picker with nothing in between (founder, 2026-09-04: "is this looks correct to you?"). - A BLOCK. label, help, submit - the submit is on its own line under everything, and there it belongs at the edge like every other action. Left alone it sat 466px in on "Turn this website off". CSS cannot ask what a box's computed display is, so it asks the thing the AUTHOR wrote: these row forms all declare display:flex in an inline style. That is a real property of the DOM and it is the one the two shapes actually differ by - "has a direct-child field" was tried first and gets the block form wrong, because a checkbox in a is a field on its own line, not a field beside the button. NOT [type="submit"]. A