Bug #1275
closed
Web management GUI; "Help" menu wraps around, and blocks access to "System" menu.
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Description
See attached screenshot.
I have my web browser set up to use a slightly larger font size, due to limited eyesight. With a larger font size, it seems the "Help" menu item in the web management GUI overflows, and take up a new position in the left side of the menu, just below the "System" menu item.
This 100% prevents access to the "System" menu. The "System" menu opens up, but as soon as I move the mouse down to click a menu item, the "Help" menu takes focus instead, and the "System" menu is closed. Everything in the "System" menu is in-accessible.
After some fiddling, I was able to get the menu to display normally, by adjusting the font size in my browser down. Nota bene: To create the issue, I changed the default font size in Tools -> Options -> Content. I did not use the browser "zoom" feature (CTRL-Mousewheel fx).
Seen on Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7. However, these font alignment problems are generally universal, so I have every reason to believe that other browsers with a user-specified larger font size will have the same issue.
Seen on 2.0 BETA 5 2011-02-10
Suggested priority: Assigning a priority to this is a little bit tricky. On the one hand, there are probably not that many people who use a custom font size. On the other hand, when the issue is present, the most used menu in the Web GUI simply doesn't work -- and resolving the issue is counter-intuitive, most normal users would not think of changing their font size.
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Updated by Chris Buechler over 14 years ago
- Category set to Web Interface
- Priority changed from Normal to Low
- Affected Version changed from 2.0 to All
That's true of all browsers, you'll have to use one of the alternate themes that lists the menus down the left side of the page to work around it.
Updated by Wayne Perry over 13 years ago
I just loaded pfSense 2.0 and while 1.2.3 was perfectly formatted 2.0 has this issue for me. I am not using any zoom or enlarged fonts. I am using Safari on Mac OS 10.6.8. Nothing changed between 1.2.3 and 2.0 update reboot. It would be nice to not have this a 'low' priority. From what I have seen 2.0 is a very nice update!
Updated by Chris Buechler over 13 years ago
Use the default pfsense_ng theme or one of the others that doesn't have that issue, some of the non-default themes weren't updated to work with the new menus.