1054561 - Mystery “X” showing up in expanded sign-in menu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Sign-in, defect)

Description

[Holly Habstritt Gaal [:Habber]]

A mystery “X” icon is showing up when expanding the sign-in menu. This was seen while on Create New Profile page.
Zoomed in view - http://cl.ly/image/1P1B0V0Z313g
Full-page view - http://cl.ly/image/2U2F13001724

This looks like an error. Does anyone know why this is displaying here?

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

This "x" displays so that users on mobile (under a popular tablet screen width) can close a menu once it has been opened.  This is implemented in all hover-based menus.  Usability.

Comment 2

[Stephanie Hobson [:shobson]]

I should add, we're moving the position of it so it looks less broken ;) 

See Bug #1051016

Comment 3

[Holly Habstritt Gaal [:Habber]]

Have you considered displaying it only for users on mobile (handset/tablet) and not on desktop? In this case I would expect that since I clicked the sign in button to open the menu, I would click it again to close or click outside the menu area to close.

Comment 4

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

We're showing said "x" based on large tablet (iPad) media query and lower.  Much the way if you squeeze the browser width on mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/), the nav hides away and the three-line menu displays.

Comment 5

[Holly Habstritt Gaal [:Habber]]

(In reply to David Walsh :davidwalsh from comment #4)
> We're showing said "x" based on large tablet (iPad) media query and lower. 
> Much the way if you squeeze the browser width on mozilla.org
> (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/), the nav hides away and the three-line menu
> displays.

Ok, sounds good. I no longer see the 'x' when my window is at normal size on desktop.