Bug Report: date field blocked by calendar

[AJLinn]

Describe the bug
When working on my laptop, every time I try to enter a date manually in any of the date fields, the popup calendar blocks the view of the date field forcing me to either type blindly or to use the calendar pick tool (which I hate using).

Do you have any control on where the calendar is placed in relation to the date field being edited?

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to any date field
2. Click on the field to edit
3. Try to enter the date manually.
4. Hope you got it right!

Screenshots

I'm trying to change the date to today's which takes three times as long to use the calendar tool as to manually enter today's date.

Does anyone else have this problem? I wonder if it's a screen size issue?

[AJLinn]

A side note: the calendar seems to pop up in arbitrary locations... sometimes the field is blocked, sometimes the calendar opens below the field. I'm perplexed...

[AJLinn]

Another side note: if you hit "return" while the calendar is hovering over your date field, it disappears.

[campmlc]

I have the same problem on my laptop. It is very frustrating. I have to try to microshift the cursor to the very edge of the visible part of the calendar to click it so the popup goes away, and usually this takes several tries.

[dustymc]

have any control

Maybe-kinda, but probably not a good investment: https://github.com/ArctosDB/BackBurner/issues/23

HTML has a native datepicker now, converting to it should be trivial (but probably tedious), BUT it displays according to browser locale, which would possibly add some confusion. (Example: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_input_type_date)

hit "return"

That should select the default, probably {today}. ESC should close without selection.

[cjconroy]

Here is another issue. My browser remembers some (but not all) previous dates I have used, and plops them right on top of the calendar.