The margin rail hangs off an absolutely-positioned column, so its cards add
no layout height. On her live document that meant four 173px cards anchored
inside 126px of text: a 714px stack over a page whose scrollHeight equalled
its clientHeight. The lower cards weren't far from their sentence, they were
off-screen with nothing to scroll.
The rail now reports how far its resolved stack reaches and the wrapper takes
that as a minimum height, so the space those cards occupy is real, scrollable
page. minHeight never shrinks the column, so a rail that fits beside its text
is unaffected.
Scrolling into that space would have carried every sentence off the top, so
the prose is pinned while the stack overhangs it. The offset is
min(0, port - content): prose shorter than the viewport pins at the top,
taller prose pins by its bottom edge, keeping the last lines visible — those
are the ones the overhanging cards flag.
The prose box has to stay at its natural height. Keeping the old h-full made
it measure the wrapper this change had just grown, reporting the cards'
height as the text's own, so the pin could never trip.
Verified in a browser at the review's 1517x810, driven offline by the rule
pack: 8 cards over 95px of prose gained 675px of scroll where there was none,
the last card lands fully in view with the text still on screen, tall prose
pins bottom-anchored without disturbing ordinary scrolling, and hover-linking
still glows the right span.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
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