feat(web): double-click the right panel divider to split the space evenly by nx-alejandrolacasa · Pull Request #26607 · pingdotgg/t3code

nx-alejandrolacasa · 2026-10-28T19:07:53Z

Problem

With the right panel open, the only way to move the divider between the chat and the panel is to drag it. Landing on an even split takes a few tries, and after dragging the panel very wide or very narrow there is no quick way back to a sensible layout.

Change

Double-clicking the divider gives the panel half of the row it shares with the chat column. That row is the same element the panel already measures for its maximum width. The result is clamped to the existing minimum and maximum and saved the same way a drag is saved, so it survives a reload.

useResizableWidth gains a setWidth that reuses the drag's commit and persist path.
usePreviewPanelInlineSize adds onDoubleClick to the handle's handlers. It resolves the row and calls setWidth with half its width.
RightPanelResizeHandle already spreads its handlers, so the markup does not change.

The handle only renders for the inline, non-maximized panel. Sheet mode, the sidebar, and the maximized panel are not affected. Mobile has no divider to drag and is unchanged.

Scope and approval

No issue or Ideas discussion asks for this exactly, so there is no approval to link. The closest threads are #16825 (remember or default the right panel width across threads) and #22037 (closed as its duplicate), where one commenter wants the panel opened at 50%. This PR does not solve those. It adds a second way to reach a width the user can already drag to, changes no defaults, and adds no setting. If it needs product-direction approval first, say so and I will open an Ideas discussion and close this.

Verification

New PreviewPanelShell.browser.test.tsx with two rows. In a 1200px row the double-click lands the panel at 600px, and in a 600px row it lands at the 360px minimum. Both assert the persisted value. CI's Test Web job ran it green on the merge commit.
vp run check:changed passes format, lint, and both knip passes. Its typecheck and unused-patches steps fail in my environment for reasons unrelated to this change. The sandbox could not run the pinned pnpm, so patches were not applied and one unrelated package has type errors. vp run typecheck in apps/web reports no errors in the changed files.
Not checked. My sandbox cannot bind local ports, so the browser test only runs in CI, and there is no before/after recording. The change was tested by hand in a local build of the server and web app.

Related: #16825, #22037

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Walkthrough

Double-clicking the inline preview panel’s separator sets its width to half the resolved row width, rounded to the nearest integer. The resize hook persists the new width. A browser test checks the resulting panel width and stored value.

Changes: Inline Preview Panel Sizing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inline panel double-click sizing `apps/web/src/hooks/useResizableWidth.ts`, `apps/web/src/hooks/usePreviewPanelInlineSize.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewPanelShell.browser.test.tsx`	The resize handler interface adds an optional double-click callback. The inline panel uses it to set its width to half the resolved row width. The browser test checks that a 1200-pixel row produces a 600-pixel panel and stores `"600"`.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Separator
  participant usePreviewPanelInlineSize
  participant useResizableWidth
  participant WidthStorage
  User->>Separator: Double-click
  Separator->>usePreviewPanelInlineSize: Trigger double-click handler
  usePreviewPanelInlineSize->>useResizableWidth: Set width to half the resolved row width
  useResizableWidth->>WidthStorage: Persist width

Possibly related issues

[Bug]: Three competing controls are jammed together at the chat/preview boundary #6273: The issue describes the right-panel resize grab at the chat and preview boundary. This change adds double-click resizing to that divider.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#25464: Establishes the resize handler flow that this change extends.
pingdotgg/t3code#24818: Introduces the inline-size options and row observer used by the updated hook.
pingdotgg/t3code#25242: Adds the persisted setWidth path used by the double-click behavior.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 31558

The change is mergeable; only a focused minimum-clamping browser case remains recommended for regression coverage.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description supplies a clear Problem, a Change section that names the touched hooks and components, and a Scope and approval section that admits no linked issue or maintainer approval and offers t…	1. Scope and approval: link a triaged bug issue or an Ideas discussion with explicit maintainer approval of the direction, including the approval comment. The PR currently says no approval exists. If a maintainer has not approved the double…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: double-clicking the right panel divider splits the space evenly.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The description supplies a clear Problem, a Change section that names the touched hooks and components, and a Scope and approval section that admits no linked issue or maintainer approval and offers to open an Ideas discussion. Verification lists a new browser test, the checks that passed and failed, and what was not checked, including the absence of before/after screenshots or a recording. The template requires approval for behavior changes that are not a small obvious fix, and the author flags this gap. The description does not state a conventional commit title in the template format, although the PR title in the objectives follows that pattern. Overall the description is mostly complete, but the approval gap and the missing UI evidence keep it from full compliance.

Resolution

Scope and approval: link a triaged bug issue or an Ideas discussion with explicit maintainer approval of the direction, including the approval comment. The PR currently says no approval exists. If a maintainer has not approved the double-click behavior, open an Ideas discussion first. Do not rely on a small-fix exemption, because a new interaction on the divider is a behavior change. 2. Verification: the template requires before/after screenshots for UI changes. Add a before/after screenshot of the divider and panel, and a short recording of the double-click, because the change is an interaction. Upload the evidence to GitHub and embed or link it. Do not commit the assets. 3. Confirm the conventional commit title in the PR title, for example "feat(web): ...", as the template asks.

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Nitpick comments: 2

apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewPanelShell.browser.test.tsx: 2
31-33: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Drive the double-click through the browser.

The synthetic dblclick skips the handle’s pointer-down and pointer-up handlers. Those handlers use pointer capture and cancel pointer events, so this test can pass without checking the full user interaction. Use a browser locator’s double-click action and keep the width and storage assertions. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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31 - 33:
Replace the synthetic double-click dispatch in the test with a browser locator’s
double-click action on the separator, exercising the handle’s pointer event
handlers. Keep the existing width and storage assertions unchanged.
Source: Path instructions

11-12: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Use classes for the fixture’s static layout.

The fixed flex layout and dimensions have class equivalents. Replace these static inline styles with classes.

As per coding guidelines, “No style={{ ... }} or inline <style> for static values a class covers.”
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Replace the static inline layout styles in the fixture rendered by
PreviewPanelShell.browser.test.tsx with the equivalent existing classes,
preserving the flex layout, dimensions, and min-width behavior.
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- Around line 31-33: Replace the synthetic double-click dispatch in the test
with a browser locator’s double-click action on the separator, exercising the
handle’s pointer event handlers. Keep the existing width and storage assertions
unchanged.
- Around line 11-12: Replace the static inline layout styles in the fixture
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nx-alejandrolacasa · 2026-10-28T19:26:10Z

Looked at both CodeRabbit nitpicks.

Double-click through the browser. Agreed, and fixed in e1ae265. The test now imports the app stylesheet so the handle has a hit area, then calls userEvent.dblClick on the separator. That runs the pointer-down and pointer-up handlers with pointer capture before the double-click, which the synthetic event skipped. themePalette.browser.test.ts already imports ~/index.css the same way.

Classes instead of inline styles on the fixture. Skipped. The fixture's row and spacer are test scaffolding, not app markup, and the other browser tests in this folder size their fixtures with inline styles too (routeReveal, middle-truncate, QueuedRunsControl). Arbitrary-value classes like w-[1200px] would also depend on Tailwind scanning test files, which the inline values do not.

…enly Dragging the right panel divider to an even split takes a few tries. Double-clicking the divider now sets the panel to half of the row it shares with the chat column, clamped to the existing width bounds, and persists that width like a drag would. Written by Claude Fable 5.1 via Claude Code in T3 Code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The synthetic dblclick skipped the handle's pointer handlers. Loading the app stylesheet gives the handle its hit area, so the test can drive a real double-click through Playwright and cover the pointer capture path too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

useResizableWidth already gained commitWidth and setWidth on main, so the branch keeps main's version and only adds the onDoubleClick handler type. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewPanelShell.browser.test.tsx: 1

32-37: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a minimum-clamp case for the double-click on a narrow row.

The sole browser case uses a 1200px row. There, half the row is 600px, which lies inside the clamp range and does not test clamping. A regression that removes clamp from the double-click path would still pass this test. Add one case with a row narrower than 720px. There, half the row falls below the 360px minimum, and the persisted value must be 360.

The maximum clamp is not reachable on this path in the inspected layout. Do not add a maximum case or a full boundary matrix.

Suggested fix

-function Row() {
+function Row({ rowWidth = 1200 }: { rowWidth?: number }) {
   return (
-    <div style={{ display: "flex", width: 1200, height: 400 }}>
+    <div style={{ display: "flex", width: rowWidth, height: 400 }}>

  it("clamps a half-row width below the minimum", async () => {
    await page.viewport(1400, 800);
    window.localStorage.removeItem(WIDTH_STORAGE_KEY);
    using _storage = { [Symbol.dispose]: () => window.localStorage.removeItem(WIDTH_STORAGE_KEY) };
    await using screen = await render(<Row rowWidth={600} />, { router: false });
    const panel = screen.container.querySelector<HTMLElement>(
      '[data-preview-panel-mode="inline"]',
    )!;

    await userEvent.dblClick(screen.getByRole("separator"));

    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(panel.getBoundingClientRect().width).toBe(360));
    expect(window.localStorage.getItem(WIDTH_STORAGE_KEY)).toBe("360");
  });

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Add a browser test alongside the existing double-click case that renders a row
narrower than 720px, then verifies double-clicking the separator clamps the
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nx-alejandrolacasa · 2026-10-30T09:26:45Z

Added the minimum-clamp case in 7d5dbec. The test is now a two-row table: a 1200px row lands at 600, and a 600px row lands at 360 with "360" persisted. Both rows start from empty storage, so the stored value can only come from the double-click. No maximum case, as suggested.

t3-code-bot · 2026-10-30T11:39:42Z

closing at @StiensWout's request under Provide evidence for the changed behavior.

Adds double-clicking the preview divider to reset the panel to an even split and persist the width. Browser test results and a manual-check claim are provided, but no before/after images or recording demonstrates the new resizing interaction.

submission evidence: "there is no before/after recording"

Attach before/after captures plus a short recording of double-clicking the divider, including the clamped narrow-row behavior.

thanks for trying to help improve t3 code. if you think this closure was a mistake, please open a fresh pr addressing the requirement above, and link back to this one.

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