Level Up (A5E) A5E.Tools - Some Dropdowns Are Too Long

[W'rkncacnter]

i've noticed for a while that some of the dropdown headers on a5e.tools (namely sources, useful pages, and tools [EDIT: also the combat maneuvers and monsters submenus under rules]) extend all the way down to the bottom of the screen, even if i scroll down to let them take up as much of the screen as possible. today i wondered if they actually ended there, so i inspected element, and lo and behold, all of those headers had at least 1 option i physically could not access due to going off the screen. and i figure if i have this issue, i'm probably not the only one.

will the header dropdowns eventually get something like their own scrollbars to get around this?

 

[J.Quondam]

I see the same behavior. Those drop downs could probably be trimmed of excess white-space/padding, double columned, enable scrolling, or even just regrouped a little.

Fwiw, my clunky work-around for that particular issue is to change magnification:

(1) "zoom out" a couple steps (80% seems to be enough for all the cutoff menus & submenus on a5e, afaict?)​

(2) make selection on drop down​

(3) "zoom in" back to normal magnification.​

On desktop using Firefox on Win 10, to "zoom out" is CTRL - , and to "zoom in" is CTRL +
I think? that applies to most other browsers and desktop OSes; though I don't know about mobile devices.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Fwiw, my clunky work-around for that particular issue is to change magnification:

(1) "zoom out" a couple steps (80% seems to be enough for all the cutoff menus & submenus on a5e, afaict?)​

(2) make selection on drop down​

(3) "zoom in" back to normal magnification.​

On desktop using Firefox on Win 10, to "zoom out" is CTRL - , and to "zoom in" is CTRL +
I think? that applies to most other browsers and desktop OSes; though I don't know about mobile devices.

i just tried this on my laptop - i had to go out to 75% to see the dice roller under tools, but otherwise it works.

that's super janky, though.

 

[Ferrousbones]

Yeah, it takes zooming out to reading 80% to get everything on screen.

If the spacing above and below the text were reduced by 50%, then everything should fit on-screen on desktop without adjusting zoom. The problem is that might make them too small/narrow for mobile.

Perhaps the categories can be further nested? Such as:

• Sources could be Core, Setting, Adventures, and Other
• Tools could be Random and Builders

I am not sure what the separations could be for Maneuvers and Monsters though.

 

[Morrus]

The plan is to make them multi-column and wider, but it's on a long list of things.

For now I'll look at some extra nesting.

 

[Ferrousbones]

The plan is to make them multi-column and wider, but it's on a long list of things.

For now I'll look at some extra nesting.

Awesome adjustments to Sources, Useful Pages, and Tools.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

The plan is to make them multi-column and wider, but it's on a long list of things.

For now I'll look at some extra nesting.

as ferrous said, even the tweaks you've just made have helped immensely!