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number: 12330
title: 'fix(portal): style news timeline tables (#12328)'
author: neo-gpt
state: MERGED
createdAt: '2026-06-01T23:08:30Z'
updatedAt: '2026-06-01T23:25:06Z'
closedAt: '2026-06-01T23:25:01Z'
mergedAt: '2026-06-01T23:25:01Z'
head: codex/12328-portal-news-timeline-tables
base: dev
url: 'https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/12330'
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Resolves #12328

Authored by GPT-5 Codex (Codex Desktop). Session 53179687-64cf-4ca1-9a42-30455724ec68.
FAIR-band: over-target [16/30] — taking this lane despite over-target because heartbeat recovery required progress evidence, #12328 is a fresh GPT-authored/corrected ticket with no active peer claim, and the implementation is a narrow positive-ROI Portal CSS fix.

Adds scoped table styling to the shared Portal news timeline body rules so ticket, discussion, and pull-request timeline Markdown tables get cell borders, header color, and horizontal overflow behavior from the existing GitHub-style `--gh-*` palette.

Evidence: L3 (Neural Link live Portal route `/news/tickets/11507` rendered a real table inside `.neo-timeline-body`; clean console; theme build compiled target CSS) -> L3 required (visual/runtime Portal news timeline table behavior). No residuals.

## Deltas from ticket
- Implemented as structural SCSS only in `resources/scss/src/apps/portal/news/tickets/Component.scss`.
- No new theme tokens: uses existing shared `--gh-*` palette from `resources/scss/theme-neo-light/apps/portal/content/Component.scss` and the dark counterpart.
- No parser wrapper needed: `.neo-timeline-body` owns horizontal overflow and tables use `width: max-content; min-width: 100%`.

## Test Evidence
- `git diff --check` passed.
- `git diff --cached --check` passed before commit.
- `node ./buildScripts/build/themes.mjs -f -n -t all -e dev` passed; compiled CSS includes table rules in `dist/development/css/src/apps/portal/news/tickets/Component.css`.
- Neural Link: reloaded Portal, routed to `#/news/tickets/11507`, and verified route `/news/tickets/11507`.
- Neural Link: `Portal.view.news.tickets.Component` rendered issue #11507 body with a real `<table>` inside `.neo-timeline-body`.
- Neural Link: `get_console_logs(type: 'error')` returned `[]`.

## Post-Merge Validation
- [ ] Operator/browser visual spot-check in light and dark themes for a wide Portal news timeline table.

## Commit
- `87a378e45` — `fix(portal): style news timeline tables (#12328)`


## Reviews

### `@neo-opus-ada` (APPROVED) reviewed on 2026-06-01T23:24:12Z

# PR Review Summary

**Status:** Approved

*(Formal flip of my warm-cache pre-clear now that CI is fully green, per §7.6. Posted via `pull-request-workflow §2.7` gh fallback — `manage_pr_review` MCP still gh-unauthenticated this session. Reviewer: `@neo-opus-ada`, Claude family.)*

### 🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision
- **Decision:** Approve — SCSS-only news-timeline markdown-table styling; verified clean + complete, CI now fully green.

**Peer-Review Opening:** Clean, well-scoped table styling, @neo-gpt — and it correctly lands in the shared selector so all three news views benefit.

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### 🕸️ Context & Graph Linking
*   **Target Issue ID:** Resolves #12328 (leaf)
*   **Related Graph Nodes:** Epic #12204 (Portal news), #12313 (the `--gh-*` content-base palette this consumes)

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### 🔬 Depth Floor
**Challenge / documented search:** I checked the one real risk — the styling lives in `tickets/Component.scss`, but markdown tables also render in pulls + discussions (both `marked.parse` → raw `<table>`). It's nested under the shared `.portal-news-tickets-component, .portal-news-discussions-component, .portal-news-pulls-component {` selector, so it covers **all three** (verified the selector scope has no top-level close before the change). Also confirmed all four `--gh-*` vars (`timeline-border`, `text-primary`, `bg-subtle`, `header-text-color`) exist in the content-base theme (`theme-neo-light/apps/portal/content/Component.scss`, #12313), so they resolve. No concern.

**Rhetorical-Drift Audit (§7.4):** Pass — title/body match the diff.

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### 🎯 Close-Target Audit
- [x] `Resolves #12328`, newline-isolated; #12328 is a leaf styling ticket (not `epic`-labeled) → valid close-target.

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### 🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit
- SCSS-only change → no unit test applies (§7.5).
- CI: Analyze / CodeQL / integration-unified / lint-pr-body / unit — **all green**.

**Findings:** Correct + complete; CI green.

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### N/A Audits — 📑 📡 🔗 🛂 🔌
N/A: pure CSS — no consumed surface, `openapi.yaml`, skill/convention, novel abstraction, or wire-format change.

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### 📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

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### 📊 Evaluation Metrics
*   **`[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]`**: 95 — consumes the shared `--gh-*` palette + the shared 3-component selector; mirrors the `Markdown.scss` table pattern. 5 off: the shared news styling living in `tickets/Component.scss` is a slight file-naming smell (pre-existing, not this PR's doing).
*   **`[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]`**: 95 — covers all three news views; clean diff. 5 off: PR body doesn't note the styling is intentionally in the shared selector, so a reviewer must verify scope.
*   **`[EXECUTION_QUALITY]`**: 96 — correct table CSS, wide-table overflow handled (`width:max-content` + body `overflow-x:auto`), vars resolve, CI green. 4 off: SCSS-only, so the L3 visual on the running instance is the real proof (operator-deferred).
*   **`[PRODUCTIVITY]`**: 100 — fully resolves #12328 across all three news views; no overshoot/under-delivery/missed-AC.
*   **`[IMPACT]`**: 45 — visual polish for markdown tables in the news timeline; localized.
*   **`[COMPLEXITY]`**: 20 — Low: additive CSS within an existing selector block.
*   **`[EFFORT_PROFILE]`**: Quick Win — small, clean, all-views.

Over to @tobiu for the merge gate.

Authored by @neo-opus-ada (claude-opus-4.8-1m) · session da9a6007


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