enhance(ui): tweak tooltip style and misc fixes (#38524)

Tooltip changes:

- center tooltips over their target (default placement `top` instead of
`top-start`)
- fix the arrow rendering off-center on references narrower than 22px
like 16px icons, caused by tippy's hardcoded 3px arrow padding
- fix arrowed tooltips overlapping their reference by 1px because the
offset distance was derived from the raw arrow option
- tweak tooltip colors and reduce content padding
- fix a Firefox bug where lazily created tooltips would not show on the
first hover, because Firefox skips enter/leave event dispatch when no
such listener existed in the window at the time of the pointer crossing

Other UI tweaks:

- tweak repo sidebar release style
- enhance actions back link
- center step chevron
- add border on workflow graph

<img width="92" height="76" alt="Screenshot 2026-07-21 at 18 07 42"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/968a51de-e470-48c0-b592-4a207dfcbb63"
/>
<img width="94" height="76" alt="Screenshot 2026-07-21 at 18 07 53"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5e8e0ce3-7536-4689-a6ae-9cfb6e867ddb"
/>


<img width="203" height="77" alt="Screenshot 2026-07-19 at 00 14 32"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/71c16a54-ad14-4636-8af4-e68b3599f1d0"
/>
<img width="309" height="290" alt="Screenshot 2026-07-18 at 23 37 21"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/29630504-d69a-4e23-978b-41ae6d0bff92"
/>
<img width="151" height="110" alt="Screenshot 2026-07-18 at 23 35 47"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b8107602-12f1-4f9b-a3f6-b930af25c9e7"
/>

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Signed-off-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>

templates/repo/home_sidebar_bottom.tmpl

@@ -7,15 +7,15 @@
 			</a>
 			<span class="ui small label">{{.NumReleases}}</span>
 		</div>
-		<div class="flex-relaxed-list">
+		<div>
 			<div class="flex-text-block">
 				<div>{{svg "octicon-tag"}}</div>
-				<a class="gt-ellipsis muted" href="{{.LatestRelease.Link}}" title="{{.LatestRelease.Title}}">{{.LatestRelease.Title}}</a>
+				<a class="gt-ellipsis muted" href="{{.LatestRelease.Link}}" title="{{.LatestRelease.Title}}"><strong>{{.LatestRelease.Title}}</strong></a>
 				<div class="tw-shrink-0">
 					{{template "repo/release/label" (dict "Release" .LatestRelease "IsLatest" true)}}
 				</div>
 			</div>
-			<div class="tw-ml-[24px]">{{DateUtils.TimeSince .LatestRelease.CreatedUnix}}</div>
+			<div class="tw-ml-[24px] tw-text-12">{{DateUtils.TimeSince .LatestRelease.CreatedUnix}}</div>
 		</div>
 	{{end}}
 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 		<div>
 			<div class="language-stats">
 				{{range .LanguageStats}}
-				<div class="bar" style="width: {{.Percentage}}%; background-color: {{.Color}}" data-tooltip-placement="top" data-tooltip-content="{{.Language}}" data-tooltip-follow-cursor="horizontal"></div>
+				<div class="bar" style="width: {{.Percentage}}%; background-color: {{.Color}}" data-tooltip-content="{{.Language}}" data-tooltip-follow-cursor="horizontal"></div>
 				{{end}}
 			</div>
 			<div class="language-stats-details">

templates/repo/home_sidebar_top.tmpl

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 				{{svg "octicon-cross-reference"}} {{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.cite_this_repo"}}
 			</a>
 		{{end}}
-		<div class="flex-text-block muted" {{if not (eq .Repository.Size 0)}}data-tooltip-placement="top" data-tooltip-content="{{.Repository.SizeDetailsString}}"{{end}}>
+		<div class="flex-text-block muted" {{if not (eq .Repository.Size 0)}}data-tooltip-content="{{.Repository.SizeDetailsString}}"{{end}}>
 			{{$fileSizeFormatted := FileSize .Repository.Size}}{{/* the formatted string is always "{val} {unit}" */}}
 			{{$fileSizeFields := StringUtils.Split $fileSizeFormatted " "}}
 			{{svg "octicon-database"}} <b>{{ctx.Locale.PrettyNumber (index $fileSizeFields 0)}}</b> {{index $fileSizeFields 1}}

web_src/css/modules/tippy.css

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 }
 
 .tippy-box[data-theme="tooltip"] .tippy-content {
-  padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
+  padding: 5px 10px;
 }
 
 .tippy-box[data-theme="tooltip"] .tippy-svg-arrow-inner,

web_src/css/themes/theme-gitea-dark.css

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ gitea-theme-meta-info {
   --color-reaction-hover-bg: var(--color-primary-light-4);
   --color-reaction-active-bg: var(--color-primary-light-5);
   --color-tooltip-text: #fafafa;
-  --color-tooltip-bg: #0b0b0cf0;
+  --color-tooltip-bg: #2b2e33;
   --color-nav-bg: #18191b;
   --color-nav-hover-bg: var(--color-secondary-light-1);
   --color-nav-text: var(--color-text);

web_src/css/themes/theme-gitea-light.css

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ gitea-theme-meta-info {
   --color-reaction-hover-bg: var(--color-primary-light-5);
   --color-reaction-active-bg: var(--color-primary-light-6);
   --color-tooltip-text: #fbfdff;
-  --color-tooltip-bg: #000017f0;
+  --color-tooltip-bg: #25292e;
   --color-nav-bg: #f6f7fa;
   --color-nav-hover-bg: var(--color-secondary-light-1);
   --color-nav-text: var(--color-text);

web_src/js/components/ActionRunJobView.vue

@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ async function hashChangeListener() {
         <SvgIcon
           v-else
           name="octicon-chevron-right"
-          class="tw-mr-2 step-summary-chevron"
+          class="step-summary-chevron"
           :class="{'tw-invisible': !isExpandable(jobStep.status)}"
         />
         <ActionStatusIcon :status="jobStep.status" icon-variant="circle-fill"/>

web_src/js/components/RepoActionView.vue

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ onBeforeUnmount(() => {
   <!-- make the view container full width to make users easier to read logs -->
   <div class="ui fluid container">
     <div class="action-view-header">
-      <a v-if="backLink" class="action-view-back silenced" :href="backLink.href">
+      <a v-if="backLink" class="action-view-back" :href="backLink.href">
         <SvgIcon name="octicon-arrow-left" :size="14"/>
         <span>{{ backLink.prefix }} <span class="action-view-back-name">{{ backLink.name }}</span></span>
       </a>
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ onBeforeUnmount(() => {
                 </div>
                 <div class="flex-text-block tw-pl-[20px]">
                   <span class="flex-text-inline tw-flex-shrink-0">
-                    <ActionStatusIcon :locale-status="locale.status[attempt.status]" :status="attempt.status" :size="14" class="flex-text-block" icon-variant="circle-fill"/>
+                    <ActionStatusIcon :locale-status="locale.status[attempt.status]" :status="attempt.status" :size="14" icon-variant="circle-fill"/>
                     <span>{{ locale.status[attempt.status] }}</span>
                   </span>
                   <span>•</span>
@@ -364,14 +364,10 @@ onBeforeUnmount(() => {
   gap: 4px;
   font-size: 13px;
   color: var(--color-text-light-1);
+  text-decoration: none;
 }
 
 .action-view-back:hover {
-  color: var(--color-primary);
-}
-
-.action-view-back-name {
-  font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold);
   color: var(--color-text);
 }
 

web_src/js/components/WorkflowGraph.vue

@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ function onNodeClick(job: GraphNode | ActionsJob, event: MouseEvent) {
   background: var(--color-console-bg);
   gap: var(--gap-block);
   flex-wrap: wrap;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-secondary);
 }
 
 .graph-workflow-info {

web_src/js/modules/tippy.ts

@@ -12,10 +12,21 @@ type TippyOpts = {
 const visibleInstances = new Set<Instance>();
 const arrowSvg = html`<svg width="16" height="7"><path d="m0 7 8-7 8 7Z" class="tippy-svg-arrow-outer"/><path d="m0 8 8-7 8 7Z" class="tippy-svg-arrow-inner"/></svg>`;
 
+// shrink tippy's default 3px arrow padding so the arrow can point at the center of
+// narrow references like 16px icons with "start"/"end" placements
+function arrowPadding({placement, reference}: {placement: Placement, reference: {width: number, height: number}}): number {
+  const isVertical = placement.startsWith('left') || placement.startsWith('right');
+  const referenceLength = isVertical ? reference.height : reference.width;
+  return Math.max(0, Math.min(3, referenceLength / 2 - 8)); // 8 = half of arrow width
+}
+
 export function createTippy(target: Element, opts: TippyOpts = {}): Instance {
   // the callback functions should be destructured from opts,
   // because we should use our own wrapper functions to handle them, do not let the user override them
   const {onHide, onShow, onDestroy, role, theme, arrow, ...other} = opts;
+  // CSS theme, either "default", "tooltip", "menu", "box-with-header" or "bare"
+  const resolvedTheme = theme || role || 'default';
+  const resolvedArrow = arrow ?? (resolvedTheme === 'bare' ? false : arrowSvg);
 
   const instance: Instance = tippy(target, {
     appendTo: document.body,
@@ -44,12 +55,12 @@ export function createTippy(target: Element, opts: TippyOpts = {}): Instance {
       target.setAttribute('aria-controls', instance.popper.id);
       return onShow?.(instance);
     },
-    arrow: arrow ?? (theme === 'bare' ? false : arrowSvg),
+    arrow: resolvedArrow,
+    popperOptions: {modifiers: [{name: 'arrow', options: {padding: arrowPadding}}]},
     // HTML role attribute, ideally the default role would be "popover" but it does not exist
     role: role || 'menu',
-    // CSS theme, either "default", "tooltip", "menu", "box-with-header" or "bare"
+    theme: resolvedTheme,
-    theme: theme || role || 'default',
+    offset: [0, resolvedArrow ? 10 : 6],
-    offset: [0, arrow ? 10 : 6],
     plugins: [followCursor],
     ...other,
   } satisfies Partial<Props>);
@@ -87,7 +98,7 @@ function attachTooltip(target: Element, content: Content | null = null): Instanc
     theme: 'tooltip',
     hideOnClick,
     allowHTML: target.getAttribute('data-tooltip-render') === 'html',
-    placement: target.getAttribute('data-tooltip-placement') as Placement || 'top-start',
+    placement: target.getAttribute('data-tooltip-placement') as Placement || 'top',
     followCursor: target.getAttribute('data-tooltip-follow-cursor') as Props['followCursor'] || false,
     ...((target.getAttribute('data-tooltip-interactive') === 'true') && {interactive: true, aria: {content: 'describedby', expanded: false}}),
   };
@@ -115,9 +126,14 @@ function switchTitleToTooltip(target: Element): void {
  * Some browsers like PaleMoon don't support "addEventListener('mouseenter', capture)"
  * The tippy by default uses "mouseenter" event to show, so we use "mouseover" event to switch to tippy
  */
-function lazyTooltipOnMouseHover(this: HTMLElement, e: Event): void {
+function lazyTooltipOnMouseHover(e: Event): void {
-  (e.target as HTMLElement).removeEventListener('mouseover', lazyTooltipOnMouseHover, true);
+  const el = e.currentTarget as HTMLElement;
-  attachTooltip(this);
+  el.removeEventListener('mouseover', lazyTooltipOnMouseHover, true);
+  // Firefox skips enter/leave dispatch when the window had no such listeners at the time of the
+  // pointer crossing, so the new tippy misses its first "mouseenter". Show via a synthetic event,
+  // carrying over the cursor position for "followCursor" tooltips.
+  const {clientX, clientY} = e as MouseEvent;
+  attachTooltip(el)?.reference.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('mouseenter', {clientX, clientY}));
 }
 
 // Activate the tooltip for current element.