Fix: Remove element selector tooltip in Tweaks mode

[1119302165]

Fix: Remove element selector tooltip in Tweaks mode

Problem

When the "Tweaks" mode is enabled and users click on elements, a floating tooltip appeared displaying the CSS selector path. This tooltip was:

• Visually obstructive, blocking the element being inspected
• Prone to text overflow issues with long selector paths
• Cluttering the preview area with redundant information

Solution

Removed the floating tooltip entirely. Users can now inspect elements without visual obstruction.

Changes

Files modified:

• apps/web/src/components/FileViewer.tsx - Removed tooltip JSX rendering from CommentTargetOverlay component
• apps/web/src/index.css - Removed .comment-target-tooltip and related CSS styles

Behavior Change

Aspect	Before	After
Element selection	Shows blue overlay + floating tooltip	Shows blue overlay only
Tooltip content	CSS selector, dimensions, kind	N/A
Visual obstruction	Yes (tooltip blocks element)	No
Long selector handling	Text overflow issues	N/A (tooltip removed)

after fix：

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[lefarcen]

Hi @1119302165! 🎉

Thanks for the contribution — the detailed before/after analysis and screenshots are really helpful.

I will run a deep review and get back to you within 24h.

Thanks for making open-design better!
— open-design team

[lefarcen]

Hey @1119302165! The fix addresses the immediate overflow issue well, and I appreciate the detailed before/after analysis. I found two suggestions for making the tooltip more robust across different screen sizes:

Summary:

• ✅ Solves the long selector overflow problem
• ⚠️ The fixed 280px width introduces responsive clipping risk
• 💡 word-break: break-all can split selectors awkwardly

See inline comments for concrete suggestions.

[lefarcen]

Hey @1119302165! I see your comment, but I'm not seeing any new commits yet — the current head is still 6115e3af (the original commit).

Your comment mentions "Removed the floating tooltip entirely," but the current diff still shows the tooltip with the fixed 280px width + word-break changes.

If you're planning to push a new approach:
Push your commits first, then I'll automatically re-review the new changes.

If you'd like to discuss the suggestions before coding:
Happy to clarify! The two points from my review were:

1. Fixed 280px width can cause clipping on narrow screens — suggested making it responsive
2. word-break: break-all splits selectors mid-word — suggested overflow-wrap: anywhere instead

Let me know which direction you'd like to go!

[1119302165]

@lefarcen try review, change Solution Removed the floating tooltip entirely. Users can now inspect elements without visual obstruction.

[lefarcen]

Thanks for the quick update, @1119302165! I see you went with a different approach — removing the tooltip entirely.

My take:

✅ Solves the overflow problem — no tooltip means no overflow
⚠️ But loses useful information — the tooltip showed element ID, dimensions, selection type, etc. That was helpful for debugging and understanding what you're selecting.

Alternative suggestion:
Instead of removing it completely, what if we:

1. Keep the tooltip but show it on hover instead of always-on?
2. Or show just the essential info (element ID only) in a compact format?

This way users get the info when they need it, without it being visually obtrusive or overflowing.

Your choice:
If you prefer the "no tooltip" approach for simplicity, that's valid too — less visual clutter. But I wanted to point out that we're trading off discoverability/debugging info.

Let me know which direction you'd like to go!

[1119302165]

Thanks for the quick update, @1119302165! I see you went with a different approach — removing the tooltip entirely.

My take:

✅ Solves the overflow problem — no tooltip means no overflow ⚠️ But loses useful information — the tooltip showed element ID, dimensions, selection type, etc. That was helpful for debugging and understanding what you're selecting.

Alternative suggestion: Instead of removing it completely, what if we:

1. Keep the tooltip but show it on hover instead of always-on?
2. Or show just the essential info (element ID only) in a compact format?

This way users get the info when they need it, without it being visually obtrusive or overflowing.

Your choice: If you prefer the "no tooltip" approach for simplicity, that's valid too — less visual clutter. But I wanted to point out that we're trading off discoverability/debugging info.

Let me know which direction you'd like to go!

@lefarcen
Thanks for your feedback. As you can see from the screenshot I uploaded, the ID and other related information are already shown in the top-left card. The tooltip is actually redundant, so removing it won’t have any impact on usage and debugging.

after fix：

[lefarcen]

Ah, that makes perfect sense! 💡 If the element info is already displayed in the top-left card, then the tooltip is redundant — removing it is the cleaner solution.

Thanks for the clarification and the photo! This approach is better than I initially thought. The PR removes noise while keeping the useful debugging info visible where it matters.

Updated verdict: Looks good to me. Ready for maintainer review. 👍

[1119302165]

Ah, that makes perfect sense! 💡 If the element info is already displayed in the top-left card, then the tooltip is redundant — removing it is the cleaner solution.

Thanks for the clarification and the photo! This approach is better than I initially thought. The PR removes noise while keeping the useful debugging info visible where it matters.

Updated verdict: Looks good to me. Ready for maintainer review. 👍

@mrcfps

[1119302165]

@lefarcen Why is the job ci / Validate workspace (pull_request) failing?
This code change does not involve any content related to this check.
Please check if this failure was caused by other merged PRs, and provide the root cause.

[lefarcen]

Good catch, @1119302165! 👍

The CI failure is not caused by your changes — it's a main-branch issue that's affecting multiple recent PRs.

Root cause:
The Validate workspace job runs e2e tests that check localization coverage. The test expects 68 skills to have German/Russian/French translations, but only 67 are present. This is a missing translation in the main branch, not related to your tooltip removal.

Evidence:

• Your PR only touches apps/web/src/index.css (tooltip styles) — no impact on localization files
• Recent main branch CI runs also show failures: ci failure 2026-05-06 (3 consecutive runs)
• Error message:

  skills display copy: expected [ 'audio-jingle', 'blog-post', …(67) ] 
  to deeply equal [ 'audio-jingle', 'blog-post', …(68) ]
  

What this means for your PR:
Your code changes are clean. The CI failure is a known main-branch issue that needs to be fixed separately (likely a recent PR merged without updating all locale files).

Next steps:

• The maintainer team will either:
  1. Fix the missing translations on main (unblocking all PRs), OR
  2. Merge your PR despite the CI failure (since it's unrelated to your changes)

cc @mrcfps — this PR is ready for merge from a code perspective; CI failure is upstream.

[lefarcen]

Hey @1119302165! 👋

Good catch — the CI failure is not caused by your PR. Here's what's happening:

Root cause:
PR #678 (merged ~1 hour ago) added a new skill social-media-dashboard, but didn't update the localized display copy for German, Russian, and French. The test localized-content.test.ts now expects 68 skills in those locales, but only 67 are present.

Your PR only changed:
apps/web/src/index.css (tooltip CSS) — completely unrelated to localization.

What happens next:
The maintainers will either:

1. Fix the missing localization entries in a follow-up PR, OR
2. Temporarily skip the localization check until translations are added

Your PR is clean — the CI failure is a pre-existing issue from another merged PR. I'll flag this to the team.

Thanks for raising this! 🙏

[mrcfps]

@1119302165 I reviewed the current changed ranges in FileViewer.tsx and index.css: the tooltip markup/styles are removed while the target overlay remains in place for both single-element and pod selections, so the overflow/obstruction path is eliminated without changing the selection overlay behavior. Thanks for the quick iteration and for clarifying that the same element details remain available in the top-left card — this is a clean simplification. 🙏

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[mrcfps]

@1119302165 I reviewed the current changed ranges in FileViewer.tsx, index.css, and the locale fallback lists: removing the tooltip markup/styles keeps the selection overlay path intact while eliminating the overflow/obstruction case, and the added English fallback IDs cover the newly present social-media-dashboard skill and totality-festival design system across DE/RU/FR. I also verified pnpm --filter @open-design/web typecheck and pnpm test tests/localized-content.test.ts from e2e pass locally. Thanks for the quick iteration and for keeping the useful element details available outside the tooltip — this is a clean fix. 🙏

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[lefarcen]

@1119302165 Wow, thank you for fixing the CI failure! 🙌 You identified the root cause (missing localizations from PR #678) and added the entries for social-media-dashboard and totality-festival to de/ru/fr. That's exactly what was needed.

Your PR is now:

• ✅ Tooltip removal (clean)
• ✅ CI fixed (localization entries added)
• ✅ mrcfps APPROVED

Waiting for CI to re-run and confirm the fix passes. If it does, this should be ready to merge. Great work! 👏

[1119302165]

@mrcfps #702 Is the code you just pushed to my branch implemented in a similar way to this PR? Could you inform the author of that PR and consolidate all follow-up work here instead? this pr merge fast. @lefarcen re-run CI.

[mrcfps]

@1119302165 Yes — the i18n part I pushed here is the same fallback-list approach as #702: add social-media-dashboard and totality-festival to the de/ru/fr English-fallback registries so the existing localization coverage test passes without inventing unreviewed translations.

I kept the follow-up on this branch because #697 already needed a push to unblock its CI. I also added a small test-facing/accessibility label for the comment target overlay and fixed the e2e mock skill data so the updated full CI suite remains compatible after merging latest main.

I’ll leave a note on #702 that it duplicates the i18n portion now present here, so maintainers can close #702 if #697 lands first (or merge #702 first and then we can drop the duplicate fallback commits here if preferred).

A new CI run was already triggered by the latest push: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/actions/runs/25446173128

[1119302165]

@mrcfps @lefarcen now CI is Successful.

[lefarcen]

Thanks for the contribution, @1119302165! 🎉

The tooltip removal + localization fix are now merged and live in main.

If you spot any issues or have more ideas, feel free to open another PR or issue anytime.

— open-design team