The zoom property of css changed by brower/W3C and JqueryUI component is affected

[wesoft2020]

Description

Steps to reproduce the problem

testJquery.zip
1.write the code like "document.body.style.zoom=1.2" in javascript.
2.create a date component of jqueryUI like $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({});
3.open the html and focus in the date component, the popup is Misplaced

Cause estimation

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-viewport/#zoom-om
The W3C standard for the Zoom attribute has been changed so that the getBoundingClientRect, getClientRects, and IntersectionObserver APIs return rects with scaled lengths by browser, which returned rects with unscaled lengths before.
So the offset() method developed on getBoundingClientRect also changed, return rects with scaled lengths now.

Please let us know will jquery or jqueryUI Do some correspondence.
We did this temporarily.
var originalOffset = $.fn.offset;
$.fn.offset = function() {

var originalResult = originalOffset.apply(this, arguments);
originalResult.top = originalResult.top / document.body.style.zoom;
originalResult.left = originalResult.left / document.body.style.zoom;
return originalResult;
｝

[mgol]

I moved the issue to the jQuery UI repo as that's where jQuery UI issues should be reported.

Thanks for the report. Does the issue you describe exist when jQuery UI 1.12.1 is used or only with jQuery UI 1.13.0 or newer?

[mgol]

OK, I checked myself in the template, it's reproducible in jQuery UI 1.12.1 as well.

Since the issue is already in 1.12, given limited team resources it's not likely to be fixed by the UI team; see the project status at https://blog.jqueryui.com/2021/10/jquery-maintainers-update-and-transition-jquery-ui-as-part-of-overall-modernization-efforts/. PRs are welcome if they're not too complex and contain tests.

[wesoft2020]

Thank you very much for your response! However, this issue isn't confined to the datetimepicker; other jQuery UI controls like autocomplete also exhibit similar problems. Additionally, other UI frameworks built on jQuery, such as jQuery Bootstrap Datetimepicker JA, face the same issue.

The root cause appears to be the use of jQuery's offset() method. The coordinates returned by this method now include zoom attributes in the latest browsers, which wasn't previously the case.

Therefore, I believe the problem doesn't lie with the UI framework itself but with the jQuery offset() method. I suggest we move away from using getBoundingClientRect() for HTML controls and instead use the offsetTop attribute. We have temporarily corrected this in our web application.

I welcome further discussion on this approach.

[mgol]

@wesoft2020 can you prepare an isolated test case that just uses jQuery, without jQuery UI or other libraries? Then it will be clearer what the issue with jQuery is and we’ll be able to open a new jQuery issue about it.

[markvantilburg]

When i zoom the browser with ctrl-scroll it works fine. But the javascript zoom does something strange.

I created this fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/geovd7L6/

[wesoft2020]

@mgol I created a page that displays the offset length using jQuery and the browser. The browser has updated its API for the W3C zoom property, while jQuery continues to use the same API as before, I think.
OffsetLengthTest.zip

Install old chrome version:
npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@127
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-for-testing?hl=ja

@markvantilburg Thanks for the discussion! This issue is only affected by the Computed Style APIs, so the browser's zoom works fine.

[jacekzwroclawia]

I'm really happy that I'm not the only one facing this issue. A lot of libraries using jQuery like Primeface facing the same problem. We need to disable zoom completely in our application waiting for some solutions. So how do you see next steps with that issue? Implementation of offset() is going to be changed in jQuery?

[wesoft2020]

@jacekzwroclawia
Thank you for your comment.
We can't disable the zoom in our application, so for now we're overwriting the offset method in Jquery like this and it works fine,I hope this helps.

var isNewRectAPI = false; // for old browser versions
var originalOffset = $.fn.offset;
$.fn.offset = function() {
var originalResult = originalOffset.apply(this, arguments);
// TR excluded for bootstrap data-reorderable-rows which works fine in latest chrome.
if($(this).prop("tagName") == "TR" || !isNewRectAPI) {
return originalResult;
}
originalResult.top = originalResult.top / document.body.style.zoom;
originalResult.left = originalResult.left / document.body.style.zoom;
return originalResult;
}

// Set isNewRectAPI based on a specific value, not according to multiple browser versions.
var originTop = $("#some element whose position is held").prop("offsetTop");
var boundingClientRectTop = document.getElementById("#some element whose position is held").getBoundingClientRect().top;
isNewRectAPI = Math.abs(originTop - boundingClientRectTop) > Math.abs(originTop*document.body.style.zoom - boundingClientRectTop)