Fix empty-state alignment shift on Tags, Per diems, and Workspaces tables - #97451
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DetailsExplanation of ChangePR #93335 (table ARIA semantics for screen readers) wrapped the contiguous This change short-circuits Fixed Issues$ #97428 TestsPrecondition:
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ReviewThe fix is correct, minimal, and well-targeted. 👍 The root-cause analysis holds up against the code. Verification of the claim — when
The guard is also placed correctly — after Two things worth a look before merge (neither blocking)1. Missing test for the new branch. 2. Since this is a layout deploy blocker, the human co-author should still complete the PR's own test steps and confirm the empty-state illustration is re-centered on wide web (Tags, Per diems, empty Workspaces list) before marking ready. |
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On wide web this early return also applies when processedData.length is zero because a search/filter removed all rows, but Table.Body can still render instead of returning null whenever a ListHeaderComponent is supplied (for example, WorkspaceExpensifyCardsTable passes one). In that case TableBody still applies role="rowgroup", while this guard suppresses the enclosing role="table", leaving invalid orphaned table semantics for screen-reader users. Either keep the wrapper whenever the body will render, or suppress the rowgroup semantics in the same empty case.
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Good catch — this is a real orphaned-semantics bug, fixed in 590484f.
The unconditional rowCount === 0 guard removed the role="table" wrapper even when TableBody still renders (it only returns null when empty and no ListEmptyComponent/ListHeaderComponent is supplied — WorkspaceExpensifyCardsTable passes a ListHeaderComponent), leaving its role="rowgroup" without a role="table" parent on wide web.
I went with your first option (keep the wrapper when the body still renders):
Table.tsxnow derivesrendersBodyWhenEmpty = !!listProps.ListEmptyComponent || !!listProps.ListHeaderComponentand passes it down.TableSemanticContainer.tsxonly short-circuits whenrowCount === 0 && !rendersBodyWhenEmpty.
This keeps the semantic wrapper (and valid table → rowgroup nesting) for the WorkspaceExpensifyCardsTable empty state, while still dropping the extra flex:1 node for the sibling-empty-state cases (Tags, Per diems, Workspaces) that were the deploy blocker — those pass no list slot, so TableBody renders null and the alignment fix is unchanged.
Added two unit tests in TableSemanticContainerTest.tsx covering both empty-table branches (5/5 pass locally). fmt, typecheck, and ESLint are clean.
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| // empty-state view, which would otherwise share the available height and shift the empty state upward. |
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Address review feedback: skipping the role=table wrapper for all empty tables
left an orphaned role=rowgroup when TableBody still renders via a ListEmptyComponent
or ListHeaderComponent (e.g. WorkspaceExpensifyCardsTable). Now the wrapper is only
skipped when the body renders nothing, so those tables keep valid table semantics
while the empty-state alignment fix is preserved for the sibling-empty-state cases.
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@MelvinBot while we're here, let's also fix alignment issues in table header
For example, in categories table:
This also happens on other tables. 
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Apply column containerStyles to the flexRow sort button instead of the column-direction cell wrapper so justify-content aligns the header label horizontally, restoring right-docked and vertically centered headers. Co-authored-by: Aimane Chnaif <aimane-chnaif@users.noreply.github.com>
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Done — pushed Root cause: In the web/wide ARIA path, each column's Fix: Apply Verified on wide web (1920px) — pixel-checked, both Categories and Tags tables:
ScreenshotsCategories: Header close-up (Enabled right-docked, vertically centered): Tags: Checks run locally: |
| ? // The column's `containerStyles` (e.g. `justifyContentEnd`) are horizontal-alignment styles meant for the | ||
| // header row, so they belong on this `flexRow` button rather than the column-direction cell wrapper below, | ||
| // where `justify-content` would act on the vertical axis and leave the label mis-aligned. | ||
| [styles.flexRow, styles.alignItemsCenter, styles.tableHeaderContentHeight, styles.flex1, column.styling?.containerStyles, !column.sortable && styles.cursorDefault] |
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@MelvinBot PressableWithFeedback still doesn't take full height.
Should we add wrapperStyle={styles.flex1} when table semantics enabled?
Also, to reuse already existing tableHeaderStyles, let's define like this:
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containerStyles={[column.styling?.flex ? {flex: column.styling.flex} : styles.flex1]}
So split existing tableHeaderStyles into 2.
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Done — pushed 450adce. You're right on both counts.
Full height: PressableWithFeedback renders its style on the inner GenericPressable but wraps it in an OpacityView whose style comes from wrapperStyle, which defaults to []. So the button's flex1 was measured against a wrapper that had collapsed to content height — the pressable never filled the cell, which is why the label wasn't vertically centered and the last column wasn't right-docked. Added wrapperStyle={styles.flex1} in the semantic path so the wrapper fills the columnheader cell and the button (also flex1) fills the wrapper.
Dedup: split tableHeaderStyles into a shared base (the visual/alignment styles, including column.styling?.containerStyles) plus a separate flex piece, applied per path:
- non-semantic →
[...tableHeaderStyles, columnFlexStyle](flex on the button itself, unchanged behavior) - semantic →
[...tableHeaderStyles, styles.flex1]on the button +wrapperStyle={styles.flex1}, withcolumnFlexStyle(styling.flexorflex1) living on the columnheader cell wrapper
I read your containerStyles={[...]} as "put the flex on the container/wrapper" — since PressableWithFeedback's wrapper prop is wrapperStyle, I used that. If you actually meant a different split, say the word and I'll reshape it.
One thing I couldn't self-verify: the exact pixel centering on wide web. The reasoning is solid, but since you're looking at it live, a quick confirm on the categories table (Name ⬆️ centered, Enabled right-docked + centered) would be good before we call it done.
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On wide web, this semantic path now applies every column.styling.containerStyles value to the inner pressable and leaves the actual role="columnheader" grid item with only flex. WorkspaceExpensifyCardsTable uses containerStyles: [styles.mnw0] on the Limit type and Status columns specifically so the grid tracks can shrink/equalize; minWidth: 0 has to be on the grid item itself, so those headers can again force uneven/overflowing tracks when their labels are wider. Keep sizing constraints like mnw0 on this wrapper while moving only the horizontal alignment styles to the button.
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Good catch — fixed in 24d945b.
You're right that mnw0 is a grid-track sizing constraint, not a horizontal-alignment one, so it has to sit on the role="columnheader" grid item, not the inner button. In the non-semantic path the button is the grid item (so production was fine); the ARIA wrapper broke that.
Fix: forward only the sizing keys from containerStyles onto the wrapper cell, and keep the alignment styles on the flexRow button — TableHeader.tsx:229-234 and :300:
const {minWidth, maxWidth} = StyleSheet.flatten(column.styling?.containerStyles) ?? {};
const columnCellSizingStyle = {minWidth, maxWidth};
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<View style={[columnFlexStyle, columnCellSizingStyle]} {...columnHeaderProps}>I forwarded the sizing keys rather than duplicating the whole containerStyles onto both nodes on purpose: the alignment columns pair justifyContentEnd with pr3, and putting that pr3 on the wrapper and the button would double the right padding and shift the right-docked headers (enabled/actions) off from the body cells. Sizing (mnw0) and alignment (justifyContent*/pr3) happen to be mutually exclusive per column today, but extracting only the sizing keys keeps it correct even if that changes.
Verification: oxfmt, lint-changed, typecheck (tsgo) clean, and the Table suites pass (tests/unit/components/Table + TableTest + WorkspaceCompanyCardsTableTest + WorkspaceViewTagsTableTest, 72 tests). React Compiler compliance couldn't run in this sandbox (its base-ref git lookup is blocked), but this is a pure style-array change adding no new hooks/components, so it introduces no memoization.
Since this is a grid-sizing change, worth a visual pass on Workspace ▸ Expensify Cards (wide web) to confirm the Limit type and Status headers stay equal-width and their labels truncate rather than overflow when narrow.
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Forward containerStyles' minWidth/maxWidth onto the role="columnheader"
grid item so 1fr tracks size from their share, not content. Horizontal
alignment stays on the sort button to avoid double-applying padding.
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Fixed the failing ESLint check. The three Rather than add explicit keys (which would stop the test faithfully mirroring how tables pass Verified |
Regression scanNo functional regression found in the empty-state fix itself — and notably, the two regressions a naive version of this fix would have introduced are already handled and covered by tests:
I also confirmed the blocker fix still lands: the reported tables (Tags, View tags, Per diems, Workspaces list) don't supply The real regression risk: bundled
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@NikkiWines along with #97428, I found minor style issue in table header after comparing with production and fixed them too.
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Looks good but several comment blocks explain history/alternatives. Comments should explain why, not what was tried, so a fair few of the comments could be trimmed
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Applied in e150d93 — dropped the (e.g. justifyContentEnd) parenthetical and trimmed the rest of the block down to the "why" (the containerStyles are row-axis alignment, so they go on the flexRow button, not the column-direction cell wrapper).
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Trimmed the comment blocks that were explaining history/alternatives rather than just the "why" — pushed in e150d93. What changed
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Fixing deploy blockers
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Fix empty-state alignment shift on Tags, Per diems, and Workspaces tables (cherry picked from commit fdbb9ee) (cherry-picked to staging by marcaaron)
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🤖 I reviewed the changes in this PR against the help site content under No help site changes are required. This PR is a purely internal rendering/layout fix: it short-circuits Because nothing about how these features work or how they're described has changed, there's no documentation to update, so I did not create a draft docs PR. @aimane-chnaif, please review the linked help site PR and confirm it reflects the current behavior. Then mark the linked help site PR |
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🚀 Cherry-picked to staging by https://github.com/marcaaron in version: 9.4.46-10 🚀
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🤖 Re-reviewed the full current diff (all commits, including the later table-header vertical/right-alignment fixes) against the help site content under Still no help site changes are required. Everything in this PR is internal rendering/layout work on the shared @aimane-chnaif, please review the linked help site PR and confirm it reflects the current behavior. Then mark the linked help site PR |
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Explanation of Change
PR #93335 (table ARIA semantics for screen readers) wrapped the contiguous
TableHeader/TableBodyrun in an extra<View style={[styles.flex1, styles.mnh0]}>insideTableSemanticContainer. When a table is empty,TableHeaderandTableBodyboth rendernull, but they're still valid React elements, so the wrapper was rendered anyway withflex: 1. That put a secondflexGrow: 1sibling next to the empty-stateScrollView(alsoflexGrow: 1), roughly halving the ScrollView's height and shifting its vertically-centered illustration up. The markup is gated behindshouldUseTableSemantics()(web + wide only), which is why it reproduced only on wide web.This change short-circuits
TableSemanticContainerto render its children directly whenrowCount === 0, restoring the pre-#93335 layout for empty states. An empty table has no data rows to expose to a screen reader, so no ARIA table semantics are lost; populated tables are unaffected.Fixed Issues
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