pfSense

Scrolling the entire page down slightly will allow access to these menu items in constrained situations. However, this may be a more elegant solution. Not necessarily a problem, though. Might just look better with a bit of CSS pizzazz.

Hello,

while this can seem like a trivial issue for some, usability and accesibility are important aspects of any web interface. I have poor eye sight and need quite large font sizes. For me, a couple of the drop-down menus are therefore trunkated and to reach the bottom items I have to zoom out in the browser to the point I can hardly read what is writted as the font gets too small.

Another redmine (https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10271) also highlights the issue relating to having many interfaces which would no be possible to solve just by zooming out.

My patch to enable scrollable drop-down menus for this is very similar to the one proposed. Note: this patch needs to be applied to all themes.

[23.09.1-RELEASE][admin@gateway.local.lan]/usr/local/www: diff -U 4 -u css/pfSense-dark.css.orig css/pfSense-dark.css
--- css/pfSense-dark.css.orig   2023-12-06 21:10:52.000000000 +0100
+++ css/pfSense-dark.css        2024-01-26 13:23:39.667707000 +0100
@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@
 .dropdown-menu {
     background-color: #000;
     opacity: .93;
     border-radius: 10px;
+    max-height: calc(98vh - 35px);
+    overflow-y: auto;
 }

 .dropdown-menu>li>a {
     color: #e0e0e0;

I urge Netgate to consider these proposals to fix one of pfSense's main usability issues.

The primary reason this hasn't seen any traction is because it's only a problem for users who have opted into the non-default option to lock the menu to the top of the window. You can easily change this on a global or per-user basis.

Global option "Top Navigation" - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/general.html#webconfigurator

Per-user "Custom Settings / Top Navigation" - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/usermanager/users.html#per-user-gui-options-and-dashboard-layout

If either of those is set to "Fixed" you'll have this problem and if you change it to "Scrolls with page" you won't.