Unable to use reactions on IOS/Mobile

NateDhaliwal · November 1, 2025, 12:42am

I think that’s because the viewport width treats the page as desktop, so it works (as indicated by the sidebar, which is seen in desktop).

Moin · November 1, 2025, 10:32am

Have you tried changing the Viewport based mobile mode site setting?

Don · November 1, 2025, 12:45pm

Hello

The issue is that the Discourse Jira plugin adds position: relative to .post-controls .actions.

github.com/discourse/discourse-jira

assets/stylesheets/common/discourse-jira.scss

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          .post-controls {
            .actions {
              position: relative;
          
              .post-jira-menu {
                position: absolute;
                bottom: auto;
          
                .btn {
                  color: var(--primary);
                  margin-left: 0;
                }
              }

However, this doesn’t work because nav.post-controls has overflow-x: auto, which clips any overflowed (floating) elements — such as those added by Discourse Reactions.

This only happens on mobile (viewport.sm), because overflow-x: auto is applied there.

github.com/discourse/discourse

app/assets/stylesheets/mobile/topic-post.scss

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            display: none;
          }
          
          nav.post-controls {
            // for consistency, try to control spacing by editing these variables
            --control-space: 0.58em;
            --control-space-small: calc(var(--control-space) / 2);
            --control-space-large: calc(var(--control-space) * 1.3);
          
            // on small devices with many buttons this can overflow
            overflow-x: auto;
          
            .actions {
              // using an auto margin on first-child instead of justify-content on the parent
              // because justify-content breaks overflow scrolling
              :first-child {
                margin-left: auto;
              }
          
              // Some buttons can be doubled up, like likes or flags
              .double-button {

Ahmed7 · November 3, 2025, 4:10pm

We disabled the Jira plugin and it now works. Thank you so much @Don you’re amazing

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Unable to use reactions on IOS/Mobile

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