1213424 - The Bugzilla autocomplete dropdown should expand the width to show the full text of a match

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Attachment: Screenshot of bug

I have seen many accounts on Bugzilla that edit their Real Name field to include periods of inactivity or other status-related messages.

Depending on where the account has this information, it can be readable or non-readable in the dropdown. This can be important information to know when requesting needinfo or review from someone, for example.

See the attached screenshot.

We should make the dropdown expand horiztonally to show the full message text, or increase the width of the textbox by about 150 pixels to cover most use cases.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: worse screenshot

screenshot from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8684292&action=edit

No way at all to tell if there's PTO text at the end!

Comment 3

[Biru [:poiru]]

Attachment: Show full text in autocomplete suggestions

This is sorta ugly, but it's simple and it works. The alternative solution is to patch jquery-autocomplete.

Comment 4

[:glob ✱]

Comment on attachment 8704127 [details] [diff] [review]
Show full text in autocomplete suggestions

Review of attachment 8704127 [details] [diff] [review]:
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r=glob

sorry this took so long; as this impacts all autocompletion fields it needed more than just a rubber stamp.

Comment 5

[:glob ✱]

To ssh://[e-mail]/webtools/bmo/bugzilla.git
   4d112f8..c3a3873  master -> master