Top Banner Disappears
After reading the Code of Conduct: Dear Granny, I tried your new recipe and I think you got it from the wrong magazine, check to see if you aren't looking at Grampa's Magic Tricks magazine instead of your Down on the Farm Software Journal.
More info: If I start from this link: <https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/id> then that banner is there and stays there.
And I'm on Firefox 115.0.2, Windows 10 Version 22H2
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I'm also on FF 115.0.2 (which has problems of its own unrelated to FS) and Windows 10 22H2, and the top banner does not disappear. It does scroll off, if I move down the page.
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Apologies in advance for a rather technical discussion, but I'm pretty sure this is caused by a particular combination of technical factors.
The top menu (what the post calls "top banner") for FamilySearch.org is shown in full or in a collapsed form, based on how wide your browser window is (along with other factors such as browser zoom or font size). If you start with a wide window, you'll see the full menu. If you make it narrower, you'll eventually see the menu collapse. In that state (portrayed in the second image in the post), you use the menu icon (the three horizontal lines icon just to the right of the bell icon) to access the menu.
Your browser window width must be right on the boundary between those two conditions. When the page first starts to be drawn, the window is wide enough that the full menu can be shown. But then as the page is being drawn, it is determined that the content is long enough vertically that a scroll bar has to be added (in the second image on the far right you can see that scroll bar). That scroll bar is just wide enough to reduce the available width to now be less than the limit for showing a full menu, so the menu collapses.
I'm not a web developer, so I don't know how doable it is to calculate all of that up front so that the user doesn't see this change. But I do know that if you change your browser window to be wider, then the appearance of the scroll bar won't make any difference and the full menu will still be shown. Or if you make your browser window narrower, then the menu will always be collapsed and the appearance of the scroll bar also won't make any difference.
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Alan, that seems to be the answer. And thanks, Áine. Here is a screen shot with Firefox zoomed out to 90%. The top menu fits.
In the lower picture here, I've drawn a box around that menu and expanded it by 111%, which is almost the exact reciprocal of 90%. It fits OK. There must be an invisible squirrel between "Temple" and that teardrop.
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