Joomla pain :)

As a Russian language user I am definitely for it. Looking much better now.

Agree

if 2 People test this PR successfully it could go in staging if Maintainers agree.

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Tested with multiple languages and Russian in particular which had this issue.
Logic improvement on i18n to ensure any language looks good/correct in the interface for admin forms.

Please do not edit the css file directly. That is not correct.

The correct way is to make the changes in the less file and then run generatecss.php from the build directory to create the css

Unhappily, we have multiple .form-horizontal .control-label in the less => css files.
Some have width: auto; depending on the screen width.

Therefore the less file to modify has to be chosen carefully
Also nothing is changed for rtl here.

@ciar4n
Can you have a look?

The Bootstrap default is for the control-label to wrap at 160px so if the intent is to allow the label to wrap then simply removing https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/administrator/templates/isis/less/blocks/_forms.less#L10 should give the same result. If you wish to increase the label width you will also need to increase the left margin on .form-horizontal .controls by the same amount. Not sure if there is a need for setting the min and max width.. maybe you have your reasons?

Test RTL however it should be ok. Media queries should also be fine as is.. smaller screen sizes have the label and control in columns.

As mentioned by @brianteeman you will need to edit the LESS files and then compile rather than editing the CSS directly (https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_LESS).

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 6250e2f

It looks good. The only 1 display issue is under System > Global Configuration > Media that just needs markup change.

Before:

After:

@quy that might happen in other places too especially with extensions

it because a Spacer field displaying the text as a label, this is some very old legacy.
But even with this, it is looks better than on the screenshot from the pull description

upd: In theory, for a Spacer field we can force class in "JFormFieldSpacer::renderField", something like field-spacer and then in css use .field-spacer>.control-label{width:auto;}
@quy what do you think?

Sounds good to me in theory. but I am no css guru. :)

@Fedik it's nice idea!

@joomla-ua you will update the PR?

@Fedik
Not sure where to add the class in the library.

@infograf768
in JFormFieldSpacer class, add method

public function renderField($options = array())
{
   $options['class'] = empty($options['class']) ? 'field-spacer' : $options['class'] .  ' field-spacer';
   
   return parent::renderField($options);
}

other solution can be, to add a layout (renderLayout) specially for a Spacer field instead of default joomla.form.renderfield

I like the layout approach more

@dgt41 yeah, but how it should looks like? for not break current markup of the forms ?

I can't get it to work here
we have to overwrite width: 160px; in

.form-horizontal .control-label {
    float: left;
    padding-top: 5px;
    width: 160px; 
}

and the code above does not.

@infograf768 I have sent pull with updates to @joomla-ua
the configuration page render the fields without use of renderField, that why the code from my previous comment not worked ?

@dgt41 I think here we can use the class, because the layout it is a "new feature" and cannot be accepted until j3.8, I guess.
We can do the layout for Spacer field anytime later.

Eager to test. We have multiple types of spacers and this should take into account all of them.
I would not consider this such a new feature that it could not go into a 3.7.2 (if no B/C impact on frontend).

It works. I just noticed under System > Global Configuration > Templates, the following does not require the spacer pr because it is coded differently. Should System > Global Configuration > Media be changed to match?

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@Quy that another field type note, that actually use a hack to be out of the ".control-label" ?
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/libraries/joomla/form/fields/note.php#L60

Will test tomorrow. ?

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Thanks. Works great.

@Fedik
We forgot something.
you should do the same for /layouts/joomla/content/options_default.php to cope with Global Configuration.

For example, I have added in /administrator/components/com_config/model/form/application.xml a new spacer field.

                <field name="spacer1"
			type="spacer"
			class="text"
			label="COM_CONFIG_FIELD_DEFAULT_CAPTCHA_DESC"
		/>

(I used an existing lang string).
And I get this

Should be easy

diff would be:

diff --git a/layouts/joomla/content/options_default.php b/layouts/joomla/content/options_default.php
index 9b42831..e36532c 100644
--- a/layouts/joomla/content/options_default.php
+++ b/layouts/joomla/content/options_default.php
@@ -26,4 +26,5 @@
 		{
 			$datashowon = '';
+			$groupClass = $field->type === 'Spacer' ? ' field-spacer' : '';
 
 			if ($field->showon)
@@ -34,5 +35,5 @@
 			}
 			?>
-			<div class="control-group"<?php echo $datashowon; ?>>
+			<div class="control-group<?php echo $groupClass; ?>"<?php echo $datashowon; ?>>
 				<?php if (!isset($displayData->showlabel) || $displayData->showlabel) : ?>
 					<div class="control-label"><?php echo $field->label; ?></div>

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on d0e5e57

@ot2sen
Please test gain to get this one in.

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on d0e5e57

Patch ok for me

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on d0e5e57

RTC after two successful tests.

@rdeutz
No need to wait 3.7.2 for that one. Can be merged imho for 3.7.1

I will keep 3.7.1 as light as possible, so if it is not without any doubt a bugfix it has to wait for 3.7.2

OK, no p