fix: a send the confirmation screen refuses moves nothing on it (closes #583)

Sign & Send wrote its refusals, a network changed since review and a gas limit or fee over its bound, into the errors box above the password field. That box reserves one empty line, so a refusal grew it and pushed the password field and Sign & Send down.

Each refusal now has its own box with its sentence fixed in index.html, holding its space from the first paint and only made visible, as #558 did for the balance messages. One sentence is true of all three bounds and quotes no number; the full reason is logged. A Chrome test raises the stub node's fee only at signing and checks nothing moved; a unit test refuses a gas limit over its bound into the same box.

Model: opus-5-5

tests/e2e/network.js

@@ -226,8 +226,9 @@ const RPC_RESULTS = {
 // The "latest" block, which ethers' getFeeData() reads baseFeePerGas from
 // to derive maxFeePerGas. Without it every fee is a legacy gasPrice, the
 // reserve and the estimate collapse to the same number, and the gate tests
-// stop being able to distinguish them.
-function latestBlock() {
+// stop being able to distinguish them. opts.baseFeeWei replaces its base fee,
+// read at request time like every other fixture switch.
+function latestBlock(opts) {
     return {
         hash: "0x" + "11".repeat(32),
         parentHash: "0x" + "22".repeat(32),
@@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ function latestBlock() {
         gasUsed: "0xf4240",
         miner: STUB_COUNTERPARTY,
         extraData: "0x",
-        baseFeePerGas: hex(BASE_FEE_WEI),
+        baseFeePerGas: opts.baseFeeWei || hex(BASE_FEE_WEI),
         transactions: [],
     };
 }
@@ -481,7 +482,7 @@ function rpcReply(req, opts, report) {
         });
     }
     if (req.method === "eth_getBlockByNumber") {
-        return Object.assign(envelope, { result: latestBlock() });
+        return Object.assign(envelope, { result: latestBlock(opts) });
     }
     // The end of the dApp transaction round trip: the raw signed transaction
     // the background hands to the node. It is recorded verbatim so a test can
@@ -625,6 +626,8 @@ function traceEnabled(raw) {
  * @param {string} [opts.ethBalanceWei]  hex wei answered to eth_getBalance;
  *   defaults to zero, which is what every test that predates the funded
  *   fixture expects.
+ * @param {string} [opts.baseFeeWei]  hex wei answered as the latest block's
+ *   baseFeePerGas; defaults to BASE_FEE_WEI. Read at request time.
  * @param {boolean} [opts.failGasEstimate]  answer eth_estimateGas with a
  *   node-side refusal.
  * @param {boolean} [opts.holdBalance]  hold every batch containing an

tests/e2e/run.js

@@ -2232,7 +2232,8 @@ function feeEth(wei) {
 
 // What the confirmation screen is showing right now, read out of the DOM in
 // one pass: whether sending is allowed, which reason it is giving, what the
-// fee block says, how tall the whole view is, and where Sign & Send sits in it.
+// fee block says, how tall the whole view is, and where the password field and
+// Sign & Send sit in it.
 async function confirmState(page) {
     return page.evaluate(() => {
         const el = (id) => document.getElementById(id);
@@ -2245,6 +2246,9 @@ async function confirmState(page) {
         };
         return {
             height: el("view-confirm-tx").getBoundingClientRect().height,
+            passwordTop:
+                el("confirm-tx-password").getBoundingClientRect().top -
+                el("view-confirm-tx").getBoundingClientRect().top,
             sendTop:
                 el("btn-confirm-send").getBoundingClientRect().top -
                 el("view-confirm-tx").getBoundingClientRect().top,
@@ -2262,6 +2266,12 @@ async function confirmState(page) {
             amountFeeError: shown("confirm-amount-fee-error"),
             gasError: shown("confirm-gas-error"),
             feeUnknownError: shown("confirm-fee-unknown-error"),
+            // Its sentence is wrapped across lines in index.html.
+            feeBoundError: shown("confirm-fee-bound-error")
+                ? el("confirm-fee-bound-error")
+                      .textContent.replace(/\s+/g, " ")
+                      .trim()
+                : "",
             sendDisabled: el("btn-confirm-send").disabled,
         };
     });
@@ -3057,6 +3067,91 @@ test("a token that lies about decimals() at signing time broadcasts nothing (#30
     }
 });
 
+// ------------------------- a send Sign & Send refuses moves nothing (#583)
+//
+// README, No Layout Shift. Sign & Send refuses a send on the confirmation
+// screen when the active network changed since review and when its gas limit
+// or fee is over its bound, and each refusal's sentence sits in a box that held
+// its space from the first paint. This drives the total fee refusal, the longer
+// of the two sentences.
+
+// The base fee the stub node quotes once Sign & Send is pressed. ethers asks
+// twice it plus the 1 gwei priority fee per gas, 50,001 gwei, so the 21,000-gas
+// send would allow a fee of about 1.05 ETH, over the 1 ETH this wallet signs
+// for (MAX_TOTAL_FEE in src/shared/approvalVerify.js).
+const OVER_BOUND_BASE_FEE_WEI = 25000n * 10n ** 9n;
+
+test("a send refused for its fee leaves the password field and Sign & Send where they were (#583)", async (env) => {
+    env.errors.expect("confirmTx logging the refused send", /send refused/);
+    try {
+        await goToConfirm(env.page, {
+            token: "ETH",
+            balance: FUNDED_ETH_TEXT + " ETH",
+            amount: COMFORTABLE_AMOUNT,
+        });
+        await waitForEstimate(env.page);
+        const before = await confirmState(env.page);
+        assert(
+            !before.sendDisabled && before.feeBoundError === "",
+            "the screen is not ready to send: " + JSON.stringify(before),
+        );
+
+        // Only now, with the screen drawn and its fee estimated, does the
+        // node quote a fee over the bound.
+        env.routeOpts.baseFeeWei = toHexWei(OVER_BOUND_BASE_FEE_WEI);
+        const sent = env.routeOpts.broadcastTransactions.length;
+        await fillPasswordAndSend(env.page);
+        await env.page.waitForFunction(
+            () =>
+                getComputedStyle(
+                    document.getElementById("confirm-fee-bound-error"),
+                ).visibility === "visible",
+            null,
+            { timeout: 60000 },
+        );
+        const after = await confirmState(env.page);
+
+        // Printed pass or fail, as the dust threshold test does.
+        console.log(
+            "# refused send: password field top " +
+                before.passwordTop +
+                " -> " +
+                after.passwordTop +
+                "px, Sign & Send top " +
+                before.sendTop +
+                " -> " +
+                after.sendTop +
+                "px",
+        );
+        assert(
+            env.routeOpts.broadcastTransactions.length === sent,
+            "a send over the fee bound reached the RPC",
+        );
+        assert(
+            after.feeBoundError ===
+                "The gas limit or fee the RPC endpoint quoted for this" +
+                    " transaction is more than this wallet will sign for, so" +
+                    " it was not sent. Please go back and try again.",
+            "wrong fee refusal: " + JSON.stringify(after.feeBoundError),
+        );
+        assert(
+            after.passwordTop === before.passwordTop,
+            "the password field moved " +
+                (after.passwordTop - before.passwordTop) +
+                "px when the send was refused",
+        );
+        assert(
+            after.sendTop === before.sendTop,
+            "Sign & Send moved " +
+                (after.sendTop - before.sendTop) +
+                "px when the send was refused",
+        );
+    } finally {
+        env.routeOpts.baseFeeWei = undefined;
+        await backToAddress(env.page);
+    }
+});
+
 // ------------------------------ the wait for a receipt ending in error (#315)
 //
 // README.md (WaitTx) documents two ways the wait ends on the error screen: a