Unable to click the quote button when highlighting text on iPadOS

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Users Richie and Jagster report an issue on iPadOS 18.7.1 where the quote button is inaccessible when highlighting text due to a popup menu appearing behind the iPadOS menu. Richie notes the problem started around version 26 and he avoided updating to prevent such issues. Sam explains that the issue stems from different menu positioning (glass vs. non-glass), which makes it hard to predict where the menu renders. A fix was implemented by j.jaffeux, who submitted a pull request (https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35907) to ensure the menu renders below the text selection. Richie confirms the fix resolves the issue, thanking the team for the quick response Richie.

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I’m no longer able to click the “quote” button when highlighting text here on meta because the popup menu is now appearing behind the iPadOS menu.

Running iPadOS 18.7.1 with Safari on iPad Air 13” M3.

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This has been sometime now. I blaimed 26 version. Changing to portrait gives space to see that menu.

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I’ve purposefully held off updating to 26 for the reports of all the breaking changes Apple introduced :man_facepalming:t2:

I get mixed results on portrait versus landscape, the issue seems to be determined by how much (or how little) text you select to quote.

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@j.jaffeux made a change for iPhone where we render the menu below. It is super hard to guess what the OS will do here (render native above / below / etc?) , but I guess we can apply a similar fix to iPad.

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We determined the reason for this was the 2 different positionings of the menu (glass is below, non glass is above)

We fixed glass but broke legacy iOS. We are working on a fix that detects the iOS version and picks the location based on it.

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Great news, thanks for the update :grin:

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Thanks that should fix it:

Let me know how it goes for you (should be live on meta one or two hours from now)

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Thanks for the quick fix :person_bowing:

I try to keep the community downtime to a minimum so I’ll update my Discourse at 06:00 tomorrow morning :smiley:

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Works perfectly:

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Thanks again :smiley:

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