fix(v2): give the zh hero suffix its own line on a phone (TASK-213)

[lilyshen0722]

TASK-213 (build of TASK-212, option 1 as ruled by @lily-shen at 2026-09-30 00:23Z). Branch cut from merged main (03c17da6), so #2033's white-space: nowrap is already in the base and the two rules compose.

The defect

At zh 320–414 the hero h1 measures 94.6px under three of the four rotator terms and 140.6px under the fourth, so the lede, the CTAs and every section below move 46px once per rotation cycle. It is pre-existing (identical on main abe19fe0) and TASK-211's nowrap does not touch it — nowrap keeps 对话 whole, it does not stop the suffix taking a third line.

The change

One rule in the existing @media (max-width: 680px) block:

.v2-landing__title-suffix { display: block; margin-left: 0; }

margin-left: 0 is part of the rule rather than tidying: the base rule's .18em is the inline separator between the term and the suffix, and on its own line it would indent the suffix 7.9px instead.

Specificity is the base rule's (0,1,0) and this block is later in the sheet, so it wins by order — the same mechanism the TASK-205 scroll-padding-top line above it documents in its own comment. TASK-211's nowrap still applies (this rule changes display, not white-space). en renders no suffix span, so the English hero cannot move; ≥681 is unchanged.

Accepted cost, from the card: the zh h1 is 140.6px at 430–680 (and at 390 with reduced motion) instead of dropping to 94.6px under three terms.

Ride-alongs (both were recorded obligations on TASK-211, both in these same two files)

1. The CSS comment was wrong in its reasoning. It said 对 "ended line 2 at x=348.5 in a 342px column" — a viewport x compared against a column width. Re-measured on the live pre-fix page (6a521a76, 390, zh-CN, term Claude Code): the h1 content box ran 24 → 366, 对 ended at 348.5, i.e. 17.5px inside the right edge and it fitted; 话 is 44.3px wide and would have ended at 392.8, 26.8px past it. That is the real mechanism of the split. The conclusion was right and the sentence explaining it was not, and the same wrong sentence had propagated into the invariants test's comment; both now carry the measurement. (Found by ux-lead on #2033, verified here by measurement rather than relayed.)

2. The hero test's language restore is now guarded. i18n.changeLanguage('zh-CN') followed by a bare changeLanguage('en') at the end meant any failure in between left the suite ambient in zh, so later English assertions fail for a reason that is not their own. Reproduced with a forced-failure probe, control and fix, same forced failure both times:

run	suites	tests	outcome
unguarded + forced failure	1 failed	2 failed, 3 passed	the hero test reds and the appended probe reads Expected: "en", Received: "zh-CN"
try/finally + same forced failure	1 failed	1 failed, 4 passed	only the hero test reds; the probe passes

Arms (each applied alone, asserted applied before running, then restored byte-identical)

arm	result
A: drop display: block from the phone rule	invariants 1 failed / 208 passed — exactly the zh hero suffix takes its own line on a phone, Expected substring: "display: block"
B: drop margin-left: 0	1 failed / 208 passed — same test
C: drop the whole phone rule	1 failed / 208 passed — same test

The new arm is scoped with the existing mediaAt helper rather than an indexOf or a whole-sheet read, and asserts not.toBe('') first: mediaAt returns an empty string when the at-rule is missing, so a deleted block reds instead of matching some other rule in the sheet.

Evidence

• full frontend suite: 120 suites / 1111 tests, all green (BASE is 1110 — this adds one test)
• npx tsc --noEmit rc=0
• eslint on the two changed .ts/.tsx files: 0 errors

Gates

• Render (the real gate, jsdom has no line boxes): @ux-lead — the row's sweep, zh 320–1440 with motion on and reduced, en 320/390/1440. Pass = h1 height, lede top and CTA bottom identical across all four terms; 对 at the column's left edge at ≤680; nothing overflowing; ≥681 and en identical to main.
• Code: @sprint-review — the rule and the three guards above.

[lilyshen0722]

@ux-lead render gate asked on TASK-213 at head 7271de4c — the row's sweep, retargeted at this build: zh 320–1440 with motion on and reduced, en 320/390/1440. Pass = h1 height, lede top and CTA bottom identical across all four terms; 对 at the column's left edge at ≤680; nothing overflowing; ≥681 and en identical to main.

What changed in the rendered tree, so the sweep has a single variable: one rule added inside the existing @media (max-width: 680px) block, .v2-landing__title-suffix { display: block; margin-left: 0; }. Nothing else in v2-landing.css moves — the base rule at line 62 keeps margin-left: 0.18em and white-space: nowrap untouched, and the media rule overrides only display/margin-left, so #2033's nowrap is still the active declaration under the block.

What I expect you to see, and the two places I would trust your instrument over my reasoning:

• ≤680, zh: the title is 「与你的 / / 对话」 under every term, so the h1 comes out constant instead of 94.6 ↔ 140.6, and 对 sits at the column's left edge (your 24.0, i.e. the .18em indent gone — that is what margin-left: 0 is in the rule for).
• The 680/681 boundary is the rule's edge. 681 is the interesting width: that is where the suffix goes back to inline and the sheet's own .v2-landing__title stays 44px/46px, so the h1 can differ across terms again. If the spread is non-zero at 681 that is expected rather than a failure, and it is worth one line in your review either way, because it is the boundary a future reader will want stated.
• en: unchanged in principle (no suffix span is rendered), but it is in the sweep precisely so that stops being an assumption.

Arms on my side, each applied alone and restored byte-identical: dropping display: block reds exactly the new invariant with Expected substring: "display: block", dropping margin-left: 0 reds the same one test, and removing the whole rule reds the same one test — 1 failed / 208 passed each time. That pins the declaration against its removal, and nothing else: jsdom has no line boxes, so none of it asserts the geometry you are being asked for.

One limit stated rather than left implicit: I did not build and measure this locally. I have the browser instrument for the deployed page, and this branch is not deployed, so the honest statement is that the geometry claim is unverified by me at this head and your sweep is the measurement.

[lilyshen0722]

@sprint-review code gate asked on #2038 at head 7271de4c. Three files, +65/−20, cut from merged main (03c17da6) so #2033's nowrap is in the base.

1. The ruled rule — frontend/src/v2/landing/v2-landing.css, one declaration pair added inside the existing @media (max-width: 680px) block: .v2-landing__title-suffix { display: block; margin-left: 0; }. No !important. The base rule at line 62 keeps its margin-left: 0.18em and white-space: nowrap; the media rule changes display and margin-left only, so the two compose rather than compete, and the block is later in the sheet at equal specificity (0,1,0) so order decides — the same mechanism the TASK-205 scroll-padding-top line above it documents. margin-left: 0 is load-bearing rather than tidying: .18em is the inline separator between term and suffix, so on its own line it would indent the suffix 7.9px.

2. The new invariant — frontend/src/v2/__tests__/v2-layout-invariants.test.ts, the zh hero suffix takes its own line on a phone, placed next to the TASK-211 pin. It reads the block with the existing mediaAt(landing, '@media (max-width: 680px) {') helper, asserts the slice is not empty first (mediaAt returns '' when the at-rule is absent, so a deleted block reds rather than silently matching another rule), then asserts display: block and margin-left: 0 separately on the rule body, because they fail independently — that is what arms A and B below show.

3. The two TASK-211 ride-alongs. The CSS comment's mechanism sentence was wrong (it compared a viewport x against the column width): corrected in both the sheet and the test file to the measured form — h1 content box 24 → 366, 对 ended 348.5 (17.5px inside, so it fitted), 话 is 44.3px wide and would have ended 26.8px past, which is what stranded it. And the hero test's language restore is now in a finally.

Arms, each applied alone with the mutation asserted applied before running, then restored byte-identical:

arm	result
A: drop display: block	invariants 1 failed / 208 passed — exactly the zh hero suffix takes its own line on a phone, Expected substring: "display: block", Received string: "{ margin-left: 0; "
B: drop margin-left: 0	1 failed / 208 passed, same test
C: drop the whole phone rule	1 failed / 208 passed, same test

The i18n fix has a control rather than an argument — same forced failure (toBeNull() on the suffix's closest('h1')) in both runs, with a probe appended after it asserting the ambient language:

run	tests	outcome
unguarded restore	2 failed, 3 passed	hero test reds and the probe reads Expected: "en", Received: "zh-CN"
try/finally	1 failed, 4 passed	only the hero test reds; the probe passes

Evidence: full suite 120 suites / 1111 tests (BASE 1110), npx tsc --noEmit rc=0, eslint 0 errors on the two changed TS files.

The limit, stated because it is the whole reason ux-lead's arm exists: every assertion here is presence-tier. jsdom has no layout engine, so nothing in this PR asserts the 46px spread is gone; that is the render gate, asked separately on this PR.

[lilyshen0722]

Addendum to the arm table, under rule 46, which is now live on the base this branch is cut from (03c17da6 carries #2034). Rule 46 asks for the arm's test TOTAL against BASE rather than the word failed, so here are the totals with their invocations named — both freshly measured, not derived:

Full suite — npx jest with cwd frontend/:

• BASE, main 03c17da6: Test Suites: 120 passed, 120 total / Tests: 1110 passed, 1110 total
• this head: 120 passed, 120 total / 1111 passed, 1111 total (this PR adds one test; there is no CSS-only path that changes a count)

The arm invocation — npx jest src/v2/__tests__/v2-layout-invariants.test.ts src/v2/landing/__tests__/landingHeroContent.test.tsx:

• BASE for the arms is the tree under test, unmutated: 2 suites / 209 tests. Worth stating both numbers, because main's figure for the same filter is 2 suites / 208 tests — the totals are a property of the tree as well as of the filter, and comparing four arms against main's 208 would read as a missing test in every one of them.
• every arm: Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 passed, 2 total / Tests: 1 failed, 208 passed, 209 total — i.e. 209 = BASE, no tests absent. Arms A, B and C each read exactly this.
• arm A's failure is assertion-level and says so: Expected substring: "display: block", Received string: "{ margin-left: 0; ", with the failing test named as the zh hero suffix takes its own line on a phone. A collection failure would have moved the suite-level line without producing that pair, and the total would have dropped.

One thing rule 46 flags that is worth spelling out for this particular arm: the suite it lives in reads the CSS as a string, so it cannot itself die from a corrupted stylesheet — the reds here are assertion-level by construction. That is exactly why the total is quoted: matching 209 is what excludes the absence, not the word failed.

[lilyshen0722]

CODE GATE: PASS @ 7271de4c (TASK-213). Detached worktree at that head, Node 22.23.1, tree clean on restore. BASE src/v2 → 88 suites / 981 tests. tsc --noEmit exit 0. Merge base is 03c17da6, main's tip.

Mutation — 5 arms, 5 red, and the one flagged total was worth chasing

arm	site	result
phone rule display: block → inline	v2-landing.css:1266, rule 2 of 2	1 failed / 981
phone rule margin-left: 0 → 1px	v2-landing.css:1266, rule 2 of 2	1 failed / 981
delete the whole phone rule	v2-landing.css:1266	1 failed / 981
base rule white-space: nowrap → normal	v2-landing.css:74, rule 1 of 2	1 failed / 981
rename the at-rule to 681px	v2-landing.css:1233	10 failed / 978 total

margin-left: 0 is asserted separately from display: block and both arms red independently, so your note that it is part of the rule rather than tidying is backed by a test rather than by the comment. And the two .v2-landing__title-suffix rules are disambiguated by index — the harness refused until I named which one, which is what makes the fourth row a statement about TASK-211's pin and not about this one.

The fourth row's total moved, and it is not a broken instrument. Rule 46 flagged 978 ≠ 981, so I chased it instead of publishing it:

suites whose test COUNT changed, base → mutant
  landingAnchorInsets.test.ts    3 → 0

landingAnchorInsets.test.ts has its own local mediaBlock and calls it at module scope (const PHONE = mediaBlock(BARE, '@media (max-width: 680px)'), line 61), which throws when the at-rule is absent. So the suite fails to collect: Test Suites: 1 failed, Tests: 0 total, and its three tests leave the total rather than appearing as failures. It is a second genuine red, not corruption — and it does not fail vacuously, which was the thing worth ruling out.

Two observations that follow from it, neither blocking:

• There are now two helpers doing one job, and they disagree about failure. Your new test uses the shared mediaAt, which returns '' and lets expect(phone).not.toBe('') red cleanly — the right shape. landingAnchorInsets's private copy throws at import. TASK-203 is the row for collapsing them; worth pointing at this as the second instance.
• Rule 46 needs a small correction and I will file it against myself. Its text says to treat a total mismatch as a broken instrument rather than a result. That is too strong: here the mismatch was a real failure that happened to surface at module scope. The honest instruction is "a mismatch means investigate before reporting" — the mechanism can be corruption or a genuine collection-time red, and the two are not distinguishable from the Tests: line alone.

Your two TASK-211 obligations, both verified from both sides

The try/finally works. I ran the same forced-failure probe I used to find it — break the closest() assertion inside the try, append a test that reports i18n.language:

on #2033's head   ✕ renders the zh hero title suffix …     PROBE language=zh-CN
at this head      ✕ renders the zh hero title suffix …     PROBE language=en

Same probe, same forced failure, opposite answer. That is the control the fix needed, and it is a stronger record than a passing suite, which cannot see this change at all.

The corrected mechanism is internally consistent. 366 − 348.5 = 17.5; 348.5 + 44.3 = 392.8; 392.8 − 366 = 26.8. The content box at 24 → 366 is 342 wide, matching the column the original comment named. The live numbers are @ux-lead's to confirm; the arithmetic holds.

Scope claims, measured

• Exactly one @media (max-width: 680px) block in the sheet, so mediaAt's first-match behaviour is unambiguous today — as your comment says. The residual is real though: mediaAt does not refuse on multiple matches the way reducedMotionBlock selects by needle, so a second (max-width: 680px) block added above this one would silently retarget the assertion. That is rule 45's shape surviving in the helper, and it is TASK-203's business, not this PR's.
• The phone rule is at 1266 and the base at 62, so the order-wins argument holds by position.

One stale comment in a file this PR edits

v2-layout-invariants.test.ts:127 reads "There are six of them in v2-landing.css" about prefers-reduced-motion blocks. Measured at this head: five @media (prefers-reduced-motion…) at-rules — 531, 1374, 1400, 1426, 1496 — and a sixth bare match at 1335 inside a prose comment. That is the exact miscount rule 45's earned clause corrects, sitting four lines above the helper your new test's sibling uses. The same comment's "800 lines past the block it meant" is now 966 (the block closes at 564, wc -l is 1530) — it hedges with "widening as the file grows", so the drift is acknowledged, but the literal number is stale. Not in your diff and not yours to fix; flagging it because the next person to read that helper reads this comment first.

Checks at this head: 12 pass / 1 pending / 2 skipping — Tests still in_progress, nothing red. This gate does not stand in for it.

[lilyshen0722]

UX-GATE: PASS @ 7271de4 — zh ≤680 reads 「与你的 / / 对话」 under all four terms: h1, lede and CTA spread 0, 对 on the column's left edge; ≥681 and en equal to main

Build. Same npm run build as my main control (049ae40, whose frontend/ equals this PR's base 03c17da). sha256 over 246 files with hashed names normalized: one file moved, V2LandingPage-*.css, +54 bytes — .v2-landing__title-suffix{display:block;margin-left:0} inside @media (max-width: 680px), right after the 44/46 title rule. The rewritten comment minifies away.

Sweep (the row's, retargeted at this build: real Chromium, dpr 2, stats routed; Δ = max − min across the four rotator terms):

• Positive control: main moves h1, lede and CTA by 46 at zh 320, 360, 375, 390 and 414.
• Head, zh with motion at 320/360/375/390/414/430/480/560/680: h1 140.63 under every term; h1Δ, ledeΔ and ctaΔ all 0; 对 on line 3.
• Head, zh reduced at 320 and 390: suffix block, 对 on line 3.
• 对's x on the head is 24.0 at 320, 390 and 680 — the same as 与 and the lede's left edge. Main has 31.91 at 320 (the 7.9 indent) and 208.92 at 390.
• No overflow on any row, either build.
• 681, 760, 1200, 1440 and en 320/390/1440: every number equals main's (h1 height, lede top, CTA bottom, 对 x per term).

The 681 boundary, as asked: the rule is off there, the type steps to 47.67/47.67 and the suffix is inline. The h1 is 98.2 under all four terms, Δ 0 on main and on the head alike. So the edge is a static step between widths (140.63 at 680, 98.2 at 681), never motion in time: no width on either side of it makes the title move as the term rotates.

What the ruling priced in, as built: the CTA sits 46 lower at 430–680 (bottom 472.63 vs 426.63 at 430 and 480; 446.63 vs 400.63 at 560 and 680), and reduced motion at 390 shows three lines where main shows two (CTA 498.63 vs 452.63). 320 reduced is unchanged.

Accessibility: the h1's accessible name is unchanged — the aria-label string, identical on both builds. One pre-existing item, identical on main and not this PR's: since #717 the zh suffix span is the only visible fragment of the h1 without aria-hidden, so Chromium's tree exposes a stray 对话 beside the label. Non-blocking; I'm filing it as its own row, cut after this merges.

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