From 2485ca7b6139d562f80337055d3bd19522a98370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "n.siegfried" <n.siegfried@prime-controls.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:54:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] T3.3 - S5: fix .field-hint properly and retire the comment it
 left behind

The comment at work-package-suite-styles.css:395 recorded the consequence of the
four token systems: .field-hint's only rule lived in wp-creation-styles.css,
which the wizard does not link, so the class rendered as unstyled body text. The
rule was later added to the wizard sheet, but as a SECOND rule with declarations
byte-identical to the .field small rule four lines above it - the same
duplication that caused the original bug, in miniature.

Merged into one rule under both selectors, so they cannot drift apart again, and
deleted the comment. It described a fixed problem, and its account of where the
class is used was wrong anyway: .field-hint appears once on the wizard, not in
"step 2's CM hint, the team-member notices".

The colour is deliberately untouched. --text-dim is #8d8d8d, which measures
3.3:1 on white and which console.css:103 already rejected for exactly this job -
but propagating that fix is T4.6, which is told to re-measure rather than inherit
either published figure. Fixing it here would change a rendered value in a wave
that must produce none, and would take the decision away from T4.6.

THE HUNT for the same class of failure elsewhere, which is the rest of the task.

Statically, per page, over every stylesheet that page actually links plus its own
inline <style>: every bare var(--x) reference where --x is declared by no sheet
the page loads. That is the .field-hint failure exactly, and it is the one that
renders nothing rather than rendering wrong.

  login 32 refs, launcher 54, sop 67, creator 92, admin 100, users 100, field 56
  unresolvable: 0 of 501

Zero, and structurally zero from here on: after T3.2 every token resolves from
theme-light.css, which all seven pages link first. The failure mode is no longer
possible rather than merely absent.

In the browser, on all seven pages: every class on a real element that no rule in
any loaded stylesheet targets, including the sheets help.js and wp-creation-app.js
inject at runtime. One candidate, and it is not a defect - .team-pick on the
wizard's four project-team selects is a JS hook that sits beside data-team, and
the selects are inside .field, so .field select styles them. Its sibling
.user-pick needs its own rule only because those two selects sit OUTSIDE .field,
which the comment there already explains.

Stated as a limitation rather than left implicit: the browser half sees each page
in its load state, so a class applied only on interaction would not appear in it.
The static half has no such gap - it covers every rule in every sheet regardless
of what is on screen - and it is the half that catches this particular bug.

Verification: token_check reports every token and all 3,500 elements identical to
wave 2 on all 7 pages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 html/work-package-suite-styles.css | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/html/work-package-suite-styles.css b/html/work-package-suite-styles.css
index bac0c4f..3f5a07a 100644
--- a/html/work-package-suite-styles.css
+++ b/html/work-package-suite-styles.css
@@ -386,16 +386,22 @@ body.embed-full { overflow: hidden; }
   box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px var(--primary-light);
 }
 
-.field small {
+/* Helper text under a field, by either of the two names the markup uses: <small>
+   inside a .field, and .field-hint anywhere. They were two rules with byte-identical
+   declarations — the duplication that produced the bug this block used to carry a
+   comment about, in miniature. One rule now, so they cannot drift apart again.
+
+   The colour is deliberately left as --text-dim. #8d8d8d on white measures 3.3:1,
+   under the 4.5:1 floor, and console.css:103 already rejected it for exactly this
+   job — but propagating that fix is T4.6, which re-measures rather than inheriting
+   either published figure. Changing it here would be a rendered change in a wave
+   that must produce none, and would take T4.6's decision away from it. */
+.field small,
+.field-hint {
   font-size: 12px;
   color: var(--text-dim);
   margin-top: 0.25rem;
 }
-
-/* Small helper text under a field. It's used on this page (step 2's CM hint, the
-   team-member notices) but its only rule used to live in wp-creation-styles.css,
-   which this page does not link — so it rendered as unstyled body text. */
-.field-hint { font-size: 12px; color: var(--text-dim); margin-top: 0.25rem; }
 .field-hint strong { color: var(--text-light); }
 
 /* The sign-off name pickers sit outside .field, so they got no form styling at all. */