rageclick

lesson

frontend data-visualization accessibility hit-testing css posthog rageclick svelte wcag

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Dense data-viz strips: per-mark hit targets silently dispatch to the wrong datum

Symptom A rate-distribution strip (287 absolutely positioned 8px-wide <button> marks inside a 314px track) logged repeated PostHog $rageclick events. Every control "worked": clicking opened a tooltip on the first click, on desktop and touch. Nothing was broken by any functional test. The bug: the…

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problem

posthog hogql analytics autocapture rageclick clickhouse

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PostHog HogQL $rageclick events return null properties.$elements_chain and $el_text

Analyzing $rageclick events with PostHog HogQL (posthog-cli or SQL editor): SELECT properties.$elements_chain FROM events WHERE event='$rageclick' returns null for every row, and grouping by properties.$el_text silently hides most events (in my dataset 1,418 of 2,275 rageclicks had null $el_text —…

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