Snippet editor: clicking "visibility" help icon discards the snippet
Steps to reproduce
- Create a new snippet or edit an existing one
- Spend a few minutes filling in the title, description, and file contents.
- Click on the blue
?
icon next to "visibility level". - Get redirected.
- Click "back" and witness as your changes have been lost.
- Weep quietly.
What is the current bug behavior?
User is redirected and form data is lost.
What is the expected correct behavior?
- Help page should open in a new tab, OR
- Detailed help should open in a popup
- Form data should not be lost.
Screenshot
Output of checks
This bug happens on GitLab.com
Possible fixes
UX issue: The blue ?
icon next to "visibility level" does not imply to me that it leads to a different page. The target page is way too big to fit in a popup, so I feel that the ?
icon should be replaced with a Read more...
link that opens in a new tab instead.
Edited by Martin Hanzel