the-daily-epub/docs/plans/briefs/dashboard-tables/02-templates.md

Task 02 — template audit: every cell says what it holds

Worktree: /home/thallada/workspace/the-daily-epub-tables-tpl (branch tables-tpl). Read 00-shared.md and docs/dashboard-tables.md first. Only files under src/web/templates/ change in this task (plus your handoff). The CSS lands in a sibling worktree; assume the four cell classes behave exactly as the doc's table says (cell-wrap floor 10rem / ceiling 32rem with overflow-wrap:anywhere, cell-tight nowrap, td.num nowrap right-aligned, unclassed cells wrap at spaces, th always wraps, page-level tables grow past the page column when their content needs it).

Go through every <table> in src/web/templates/dashboard/*.html, src/web/templates/_candidate_row.html and src/web/templates/_signals_table.html and apply these rules to each td:

1. cell-tight only on timestamps, dates, ids and single tokens ≤ ~20 characters (first_seen, when, started, finished, requested, created, last_login, saved_at, changed_at, event_at, issue_date, published, run.date, run.funnel "310 → 200 → …", age → decay, #id). Remove it from feed names/titles (article.feed, candidate.feed, miss.feed, row.feed_credits, nearest-article feed), reasons (article.reason, row.reason, candidate.reason), "admitted by" cells, usernames / requested_by / saved_by, roles, sources, kinds, job names, and from any cell that combines a badge with more text (stage + run date). A .badge is already whitespace-nowrap on its own, so a badge-only cell needs no class.
2. cell-wrap on every free-form column: titles, URLs, notes, messages, "reason or comment", facet values, badge lists (interests), config diff before/after, anything a user typed. Keep it where it already is.
3. num on numbers only (it already is; just make sure no text column uses it because it wanted right alignment — #id cells may keep num).
4. Long text that should not stretch a row: if a column can hold hundreds of characters (job message, rating-import message, note), keep cell-wrap and wrap the text in <div class="line-clamp-3" title="{{ … }}"> only if the full text is reachable somewhere else on the page or via the title; otherwise let it wrap. Never put truncate/line-clamp-* on a td.
5. dashboard/feeds.html: drop table-fixed (fixed layout is ignored once the page-level table is width:auto). Keep the w-* hints on the ths (they act as minimums under auto layout), keep the line-clamp-*/truncate inner elements — they already sit on block children, which is the pattern — and put cell-wrap on the Feed and Why cells if it is not there. The actions cell keeps its forms; give it cell-tight only if the buttons wrap badly, otherwise leave it unclassed.
6. dashboard/run.html Feeds card (<table class="table-fixed"> inside .card): this table is w-full inside a card, so table-fixed still works there; leave it, but it is the only allowed table-fixed.
7. Header cells: remove nothing, but make sure no th has whitespace-nowrap or cell-tight; long headers such as "considered → eligible → triaged → assessed → shortlisted → selected" may wrap.
8. Wrappers: every page-level table (more than a handful of columns: runs, candidates, articles, ratings current/events, interests, feeds, users, jobs, stats runs/costs, settings history, profile versions, near misses, funnel) must sit in a <div class="scroll-x …"> that is a direct child of <section class="dashboard …"> — check that no such wrapper is nested in a stray <div>; tables inside .card/.cards/details stay where they are. Keep tall where it is today.

Do not change the columns themselves, their order, the text, or any data-*/id/name/action/aria-* attribute. Do not touch reader/public templates (issue_*.html, article.html, world.html, behind.html, _toc.html).

Verify: cargo test --lib web:: (router tests assert on text and some class names; if one breaks only because a class moved, update the test and say so), then cargo fmt/clippy. List in the handoff, per template, which cells lost cell-tight, which gained cell-wrap, and any clamp you added.