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[WebUI Refresh] Extensions description getting truncated

Project Member Reported by namratakannan@chromium.org, Jul 20

Issue description

Problem:
Extensions description text is getting clipped

Possible solution
Increase the height of the div to incorporate 3 lines of text without truncation.


 
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Cc: scottchen@chromium.org
Owner: namratakannan@chromium.org
I think we can increase the height to 3 lines, which will probably solve the common case. 

However, clipping might still happen when user changes to large font (we might be able to mitigate this by having the height scale with font-size, but it might start to look weird past a certain point), or if description gets longer than 3 lines (maybe common in non-English languages).

Maybe in addition to increasing the height by a bit, we just have to ellipsis or make it scroll. 

thoughts?
> we might be able to mitigate this by having the height scale with font-size

We've thought about doing similar font-based layout before in Setings, but it feels like we are re-implementing zoom (which automatically scales everything anyway).

FWIW, expecting the UI to work perfectly with abnormally large fonts is questionable as a use-case (see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=741083).
I don't think we need to cater to abnormally large font, but I think even with the "very large" preset font, the description could easily go past 3 lines especially in other languages, so I think we need a catch-all solution regardless.
Labels: -Pri-3 M-70 Pri-2
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
This bug has an owner, thus, it's been triaged. Changing status to "assigned".

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