[MGNLUI-2750] Support multi-line labels in dialogs (again) Created: 17/Mar/14 Updated: 11/Mar/21 Resolved: 11/Mar/21 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Magnolia UI |
| Component/s: | design, dialogs, forms |
| Affects Version/s: | 5.2.3 |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Major |
| Reporter: | Andreas Weder | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Won't Do | Votes: | 2 |
| Labels: | estimate-with-uncertainty, forms, looks-unfinished, pain-point, user-feedback, ux | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Epic Link: | AX: improve dialogs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Story Points: | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
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To fix rendering issues with long labels, we're currently truncating them ( One of the reasons preventing us to just wrap texts were the in-line validation messages. These, however, are currently not according to design: they should not extend into the column occupied by the labels ( To summarize, having well working, multi-line labels requires us to:
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| Comments |
| Comment by Anja von Gunten [ 17/Nov/17 ] |
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Hi there, In the upcoming months we will be working on the redesign of forms and elements. Along that process we will expand the label width so label names can contain more characters than currently possible. That will solve the problem eg. for German language where words are generally longer than in English. From UX perspective labels should in general be as short and precise as possible. Longer descriptions that explains the type of input should be placed in the field description where multiline is possible. |