# New topic mobile CSS corruption?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-mobile-css-corruption/216576
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-mobile-css-corruption/216576 "2022-01-31T14:48:00Z")
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### Author: ![emyoulation](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/emyoulation/32/165545_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://meta.discourse.org/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-mobile-css-corruption/216576/1 "2022-01-31T14:48:00Z")

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Either the mobile CSS for New Topics on our Discourse installation is corrupted or the cached file on my (moto x⁴ with Android9) Discourse app is corrupted.

**How do I troubleshoot this possible corruption?**

There wasn’t an option in the app setting to flush the cache. So I uninstalled and re-installed when the [discourse.gramps-project.org](http://discourse.gramps-project.org) Forum offered from Chrome browser.

It has messed up the wrapping for the header. That pushed some things off-screen and screwed up others. Worst, it moved a hotlinked & nearly invisible (bold, white) plus symbol (+) from the Create Topic button up into the text editing section.

 ![Screenshot_20220131-074936](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/9/b986a172c79edb385128ce03c2d95acdad6474c7.png)

The New Topic editor on this forum looks fine:

 ![Screenshot_20220131-083155](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/1/a1f9a9e3545cf0e1e4664be0cf3228fb4fd7eaac.png)

I have other problems with pop-up windows that appear offset to the left with 1/3 off-screen & inaccessible. (Painful when the button that dismisses the dialog is off-screen!)

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-mobile-css-corruption/216576/2 "2022-01-31T15:01:43Z")

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Do these problems still persist in safe-mode?

> **[The Gramps Project (Discourse Forum & Mailing List)](https://gramps.discourse.group/safe-mode)**

If not, it could be interference from a theme component or plugin.

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### Author: ![emyoulation](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/emyoulation/32/165545_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://meta.discourse.org/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-mobile-css-corruption/216576/3 "2022-01-31T15:20:05Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, it persisted in [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true).

Somehow the app had toggled out of Mobile View into Desktop View.

 ![Screenshot_20220131-090850~2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/c/0c9b1710fc58c5ff5c4b68fec6e3ac2270c124d6.png)

Selecting Mobile View was much better. (Definitely did not toggle this intentionally. Our support MediaWiki site is more accessible in Desktop mode than mobile. So I am quite aware when choosing this.)

However, the Desktop View here renders more cleanly (using the same device) on this site than ours:

 ![Screenshot_20220131-090759](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/0/502d6f0b5b91fbc95302d7d1297e97f3153be68c.png)  
It looks like our site has an extra spaces between the 3 elements in the header … which translates into line breaks that fouls everything up.