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Closes: #2326

Description

applyVisualTheme changes the theme classes after the story mounts. The Button component uses transition-colors, so its border color changes over about 150 ms. expectContrast reads the computed color at once. It can read a color between the old and new theme, so the check fails at random.

The WelcomeViewProvider test shows the problem in the high-contrast-light theme:

high-contrast-light welcome action boundary: 2.36:1 (required 3:1; foreground rgba(34, 88, 142, 0.498); background rgba(255, 255, 255, 1.00))

The screenshot assertions do not show the problem, because toHaveScreenshot disables animations.

This PR finishes each running CSSTransition in applyVisualTheme after the theme classes change. The contrast checks then read the final theme colors. The change does not finish other animation types, because finish() throws an error on an infinite CSS animation. document.getAnimations() also returns transitions inside shadow roots, so the change covers the toolkit components too.

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I ran the visual tests in the pinned Playwright container (mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.64.1-noble).

Run Result
WelcomeViewProvider.visual.tsx --repeat-each=10, before the fix 7 of 40 failed
WelcomeViewProvider.visual.tsx --repeat-each=20, after the fix 80 of 80 passed
Full visual suite, after the fix All screenshot baselines match

To repeat the test, run this command from webview-ui/:

pnpm test:visual:docker

To check the flaky case, run the welcome test many times in the container:

corepack pnpm exec playwright test -c playwright-ct.config.ts src/components/welcome/__tests__/WelcomeViewProvider.visual.tsx --repeat-each=20

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The existing visual tests cover this change. The fix is in the shared theme helper, so it applies to every visual test that calls applyVisualTheme.

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  • Tests
    • Added visual coverage for switching to the high-contrast light theme, including verification of the provider button’s border color and confirmation that active transitions finish after the theme changes.
    • The test also checks that CSS animations remain active during the theme switch.

After applying a visual theme, applyVisualTheme finishes active CSS transitions. A visual test checks that transitions have stopped and verifies the provider button’s computed top border color in the high-contrast-light theme.

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Finish active CSS transitions
webview-ui/playwright/themes.ts, webview-ui/src/components/ui/__tests__/VisualTheme.visual.tsx
After applying the theme, applyVisualTheme finishes active animations that are CSSTransition instances. The visual test checks that transitions have stopped and verifies the provider button’s computed top border color.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related PRs

  • Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2224: Updates contrast checks to wait for CSS transitions before measuring colors. This change finishes transitions after a theme switch.
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 1293c

The transition fix and its regression checks are ready to merge after normal checks.

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Title check Passed The title clearly describes the change to finish CSS transitions after a visual theme change.
Description check Passed The description is mostly complete. Add the Related GitHub Issue heading and the Test Helpers checklist item to match the template.
Linked Issues check Passed [#2326] applyVisualTheme finishes CSS transitions after the theme change. The regression test checks the final button border color after a long transition and verifies that an infinite CSS animation…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed [#2326] The theme helper change and regression test address the reported flaky contrast check. The diff contains no unrelated changes.
Regression Evidence Passed The browser test checks the final border color and confirms that no transitions remain running after the theme switch. It also checks that an infinite CSS animation remains running. Prior failure addr…
Security Boundaries Passed The changes finish CSS transitions in the visual test helper and add a test with fixed animation content. They do not introduce a path that leaks secrets or PII, executes unvalidated input, or bypasse…
Persistence Integrity Passed The changed paths finish CSS transitions in the visual test helper and add a visual test. They do not change a persistence path.
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup Passed The changed theme helper finishes CSS transitions without creating lifecycle resources. The new test removes its animation probe, and Playwright isolates the test page.
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[#2326] applyVisualTheme finishes CSS transitions after the theme change. The regression test checks the final button border color after a long transition and verifies that an infinite CSS animation remains running.

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The browser test checks the final border color and confirms that no transitions remain running after the theme switch. It also checks that an infinite CSS animation remains running. Prior failure addressed: Commit 1293c67 adds an infinite CSS animation probe to VisualTheme.visual.tsx and asserts that it remains running after applyVisualTheme, while also checking that transitions have finished.

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The changes finish CSS transitions in the visual test helper and add a test with fixed animation content. They do not introduce a path that leaks secrets or PII, executes unvalidated input, or bypasses approval or allowlist controls.

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(By the way, I'd also like to suggest detecting flaky visual tests in future by retrying failed tests and using failOnFlakyTests option from Playwright config. Something like that: {"retries": 3, "retryStrategy': "isolated", "failOnFlakyTests": true} to the webview-ui/playwright-ct.config.ts)

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applyVisualTheme changes the theme classes after the story mounts. The
Button transition-colors class then changes the border color over about
150 ms. expectContrast can read a color between the two themes, so the
WelcomeViewProvider contrast check fails at random.

Finish each running CSSTransition after the theme classes change. Other
animation types stay as they are, because finishing an infinite CSS
animation throws an error.

Fixes Zoo-Code-Org#2326

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ches

applyVisualTheme finishes only CSS transitions, because finish() throws on
an infinite animation. Add an infinite animation to the visual theme test
and check that it is still running after the theme switch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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