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Summary

  • Raise the pages sidebar cap to 400 (was 232, identical to the default) — the panel can only ever be dragged narrower, so page names truncate at a width the user can't increase.
  • Clamp the rendered width to 40% of the window, on top of the stored preference rather than overwriting it — a sidebar widened on a large screen can't crowd the page content on a small one, and re-widening restores the chosen width.
  • Collapse the row menu button to width: 0 when hidden instead of opacity: 0 — gives each row 28px back for its page name, without display: none / visibility: hidden dropping it out of the accessibility tree.
  • Make that menu tabbable on the row holding the tree's roving tab stopShift+F10 and ContextMenu are the only openers and Apple keyboards have neither, so page actions need a pointer. The tree stays a single tab stop from outside and arrow navigation is unchanged.

QA steps:

  1. Drag the pages sidebar's right edge — it widens past its default, up to 400px.
  2. Arrow-key to a page in the tree, then press Tab — focus lands on that row's menu with a visible ring, and Enter opens it.
  3. With the sidebar at 400px, narrow the window — it clamps to 40%; widen again and it returns to 400.

Ticket Link

Fixes: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-70493

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Not captured. Worth an eye on the hover re-truncation, since a long page name re-ellipsises as the menu button expands.

Release Note

Widened the maximum width of the Docs pages sidebar and made each page's actions menu reachable with Tab.

MAX_SIDEBAR_WIDTH equalled DEFAULT_SIDEBAR_WIDTH (232), so the pages
sidebar could only be dragged narrower, never wider, and page names in
the tree truncated at a width the user had no way to increase.

Raise the cap to 400 and clamp the rendered width to 40% of the window
on top of it, so a sidebar widened on a large screen cannot crowd the
page content once the window shrinks. The viewport clamp is applied
over the stored preference rather than written back to it, so widening
the window again restores the width the user chose.

The bounds now live in sidebar/width.ts behind usePagesSidebarWidth, so
the sidebar and the page header that aligns to its edge resolve the same
width and the same live cap. The drag preview's own cap moves with them.

See MM-70493.

Context: /longshot https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-70493
The row menu had no keyboard route on macOS. Shift+F10 and the Menu key
were the only openers, and Apple keyboards have neither, so a page's
actions were unreachable without a pointer.

The trigger is now tabbable on whichever row holds the tree's roving tab
stop, so the tree still reads as a single stop from the outside: Tab in,
Tab again for that row's menu, Tab again out. Arrow keys already cover
the chevron, so the menu is the only row control that needs its own stop.
The screen-reader instructions name the new key.

Collapsing the trigger to zero width when hidden is folded in here rather
than split out: it reclaims 28px of every row for the page name, but it
also turns the hidden trigger into a zero-size target, so the focus ring
and the focus-visible reveal are what keep the new tab stop usable.

Re-running the extractor also drops docs.share.visibility.public and
publicHint from en.json. Both are unreferenced in source and predate this
branch; webapp strings aren't covered by `make i18n-check`, which is how
they drifted.

See MM-70493.

Context: /longshot https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-70493
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The pages sidebar now uses responsive width limits and a shared local width hook. The page tree now exposes only the active row’s actions menu in the Tab order, with updated styling, tests, and keyboard-help text.

Changes

Pages sidebar and page-tree navigation

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Responsive pages-sidebar width hook
webapp/src/components/space_view/sidebar/width.ts, webapp/src/components/space_view/sidebar/width.test.tsx
Added persisted width handling, viewport-based limits, width update callbacks, and tests for resize behaviour.
Pages-sidebar sizing integration
webapp/src/components/space_view/sidebar/sidebar.tsx, webapp/src/components/space_view/page_header.tsx, webapp/src/components/space_view/page_tree/page_drag_preview.module.scss
Connected the sidebar and page header to the local width hook. Increased the drag preview maximum width to 320 px.
Active-row actions-menu tab flow
webapp/src/components/space_view/page_tree/page_tree_node.tsx, webapp/src/components/space_view/page_tree/page_tree_node.module.scss, webapp/src/components/space_view/page_tree/page_tree_panel.tsx, webapp/src/components/space_view/page_tree/page_tree_panel.test.tsx, webapp/i18n/en.json
Limited Tab access to the active row’s actions menu. Added focus styling and tests for ArrowDown navigation. Updated keyboard-help text for the focused page.

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The change widens the pages sidebar and adds keyboard access to row menus; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains based on the supplied evidence.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Window
  participant usePagesSidebarWidth
  participant LocalStorage
  participant Sidebar
  LocalStorage->>usePagesSidebarWidth: Read persisted sidebar width
  Window->>usePagesSidebarWidth: Report viewport resize
  usePagesSidebarWidth->>usePagesSidebarWidth: Calculate capped width
  usePagesSidebarWidth->>Sidebar: Return width and maxWidth
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In `@webapp/src/components/space_view/page_tree/page_tree_panel.tsx`:
- Line 328: Update the accessibility message associated with the page tree row
in webapp/src/components/space_view/page_tree/page_tree_panel.tsx at lines
328-328 to describe the focused page or page holding the tree tab stop rather
than the selected page; apply the same wording to webapp/i18n/en.json at lines
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/update-branch

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Error trying to update the PR.
Please do it manually.

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/spinwick create -env MM_FEATUREFLAGS_ENABLEDOCS=true

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The tab stop follows the focused row, but aria-selected follows the
routed page, so "the selected page" named the wrong row as soon as an
arrow key moved focus off the open page.

The Alt+arrow sentence had the same slip and is corrected with it: a
reorder acts on the focused row too, never on aria-selected.

See MM-70493.

Context: CodeRabbit review on PR #41
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Addressed the review finding in 26bf86a.

You were right, and the same slip was already in the pre-existing sentence. tabStopId follows focusedId (page_tree_panel.tsx), while aria-selected follows the routed page (page_tree_node.tsx) — so "the selected page" named the wrong row the moment an arrow key moved focus off the open page. The Alt+arrow reorder acts on the focused row too, so it had the same problem and is corrected alongside it.

The help text now reads:

Use the arrow keys to move through pages. Hold Alt with an arrow key to move the focused page up, down, in, or out. Press Tab to reach its actions menu.

en.json re-extracted to match.

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