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One CSS fallback turned every website PR red, and now says what its token says

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PR: #1700

Head SHA: b5b999e71174a9e960d46cb0b329a180dd56268d

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Every website PR showed a red pure-gates check because one CSS fallback on the course shelf disagreed with the token it falls back from; the fallback now says what the token says, so the gate is green again and a red there means a real regression.

Merged PR. Checks reported by the author: 1 passed; this generator did not rerun them.

The problem

The pure-gates check compares every var() fallback with the token it names, and one on the course shelf said 0.12 where the token says 0.08.

How it works

The token always resolves on the course page, so the border never changed, but the gate failed on every website pull request since 6e6c6df and hid real regressions.

The fallback now says 0.08 like the token; the check goes from 234 of 235 to 235 of 235, and a red pure-gates check means something again.

What changed

• src/pages/Course.css line 743: the .course-shelf border falls back to rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.08), the value --border is declared with on :root in index.css line 7, instead of 0.12. The token always resolves, so the drawn border does not change.

How we checked

Try it yourself

The author lists these commands to reproduce the result; this generator did not run them.

• cd apps/website && node qa/queen-fallback-parity.mjs

What this does not show

• Only the fallback changes; the drawn border is the token's 0.08 before and after, because --border is declared on :root and always resolves on the course page.

How this post was made

Merged PR; unpublished blog draft. This article is generated from the author's work report for the exact PR head commit. Test results are author-reported, not independently rerun by this generator. Merge status is not proof of deployment or runtime correctness.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1700
• Reported head commit b5b999e71174
• Merge commit 8e535bc9bb9c

Topic tags

#Engineering #Website