Bug 305719 – REGRESSION (iOS 26): Datalist options obscure text input

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Layout and Rendering

[Jeremy Keith]

Created attachment 478061 [details]
A screenshot of The Session on an iPhone during a search on the homepage. The search input is completely obscured by the text: The Road To Lisdoonvarna.

Suggestions from a datalist element are presented directly over the associated input, obscuring it.

Steps to reproduce:

* Go to https://thesession.org/
* Tap into the search input
* Begin typing a search for "the road to town"

Once the datalist is populated (after you've typed "the road to"), the search input is completely covered up by the suggestion "The Road To Lisdoonvarna".

More details here: https://adactio.com/journal/22360

This isn't the first time a regression like this has happened with the datalist element: https://adactio.com/journal/21445

[Adrian Roselli]

Confirmed this affects iPadOS 26.2. Attaching screen shots.

[Adrian Roselli]

Created attachment 478070 [details]
A search input on theSession.org where the value of a search suggestion covers the text in the input, even though he suggested text is about half the size of the rest of the text on the page.

iPadOS 26.2, 1 of 2.

[Adrian Roselli]

Created attachment 478071 [details]
Another search input now showing three suggestions that cover the input, with text that is still about half the size of surrounding text and which wraps at less than half the width of the input.

iPadOS 26.2, 2 of 2.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Thank you for the report! I can reproduce with iOS 26 and iOS 26.2; cannot reproduce with iOS 18.6.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/168475613>

[Jeremy Keith]

Just a heads-up now that the behaviour has been confirmed: I've removed the datalist element for iOS from the website link to above, because of the severity of this bug.

[[e-mail]]

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/60576

[Jeremy Keith]

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #7)
> Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/60576

This does nothing to address the problem described in this bug report. I think there’s been some kind of misunderstanding.

[Karl Dubost]

Hi Jeremy, The PR is just a draft.
AND 
this comment says it too.
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/60576#issuecomment-4057119182

Nothing is solved yet.
Nothing has changed in Safari and WebKit yet, with regards to this issue.

[Jessica Cheung]

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/62137

[EWS]

Committed 310733@main (39156fa7001f): <https://commits.webkit.org/310733@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #62137 and removing active labels.

[EWS]

Committed 305413.633@safari-7624-branch (f76ce3febd51): <https://commits.webkit.org/305413.633@safari-7624-branch>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #4906 and removing active labels.