Bug 225042 - Floating text container buttons overlap/obscure elements on the FreeBSD homepage
Summary: Floating text container buttons overlap/obscure elements on the FreeBSD homepage
Status: Closed DUPLICATE of bug 221209
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Website (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Graham Perrin
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Reported: 2018-01-10 09:55 UTC by Stefan B.
Modified: 2023-05-17 21:03 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Stefan B. 2018-01-10 09:55:19 UTC
Floating containers are being used on the FreeBSD homepage.
There need to be made some provision that text wraps around them.
They overlap/obscure other elements like download links.

Please see the Forums for detailed bug description and some analysis.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/64030/
Comment 1 Trihexagonal 2018-01-30 20:29:18 UTC
I have provided XHTML markup in the aforementioned thread that prevent the New To FreeBSD? button from overlapping the production download links: 

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/64030/

I demonstrate it with screenshots of it in action and supply the markup used as a fix. All that is really needed is to use the XHTML width factor with the existing freebsd.org CSS code.

I also provide alternative CSS code for buttons that adjust in height and width to scale down in proportion as the screen size shrinks, and the XHTML to get the site to scale down correctly.
Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-12-06 15:53:34 UTC
I began drafting a new bug report (it would have been a duplicate of this) ...

> 13.1 obscured by the huge, grey 'New to FreeBSD?' button at the 
> home page

iOS, iPad, landscape.

The word is completely obscured in Firefox, partially obscured in Safari.

(I don't know how to take screenshots on this iPad.)

Workaround: rotate the iPad.

Side-effect of workaround: an even uglier page (much more is partially hidden).

I suggest:

* remove the button

* add a shortcut.
Comment 3 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-05-17 21:03:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221209 ***