Add image gallery page with search autocomplete, tooltips, and type-sorted tags

[Copilot]

• Create ImageGallery.razor page
• Add search bar with badge component support
• Add popular tags with NexusBadge component
• Create compact thumbnail grid layout
• Add interactive features (tag selection, search)
• Test the page and take screenshots
• Run dotnet format
• Create ImageTag component with TagDto format
• Convert to compact thumbnail view
• Address all code review feedback
• Add search autocomplete with keyboard navigation
• Add tooltips to ImageTag components
• Fix NexusBadge cursor on remove button
• Refactor: Extract magic numbers to constants
• Sort all tags by TagType enum order
• NEW: Remove backdrop-blur classes

Summary

Successfully removed all backdrop-blur references from the Gallery page to avoid creating unwanted stacking contexts.

🔧 Changes Made:

Removed backdrop-blur-sm from:

1. Search Bar container (bg-white/90 backdrop-blur-sm → bg-white/90)
2. Search input field (bg-white/80 backdrop-blur-sm → bg-white/80)
3. Popular Tags section (bg-white/90 backdrop-blur-sm → bg-white/90)
4. Empty state container (bg-white/90 backdrop-blur-sm → bg-white/90)

✅ Impact:

• Prevents creation of new stacking contexts that could cause z-index issues
• Maintains the same visual appearance with semi-transparent backgrounds
• All other styling (shadows, borders, padding) remains intact
• No functional changes to the gallery

✔️ Testing:

✅ All backdrop-blur references removed from Gallery.razor
✅ Build succeeds with 0 warnings, 0 errors
✅ Formatting verified with dotnet format

The gallery now uses simple semi-transparent backgrounds without backdrop blur effects, avoiding potential stacking context conflicts with other UI elements!

Original prompt

Folling the design system, can you create a dummy page for image posts, this should look like an image gallery, with a search bar at the top (that can have tags contained in the bar via the badge component) and a list of the most popular tags underneath (also in badge format)

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[erintyler]

@copilot looks great so far. Couple points:

• Can you create a tag component that utilises the actual TagDto format, along with the different TagTypes (so for each tag type there would be a prefix icon that fits)
• It takes up quite a bit of space, I was more thinking of a compact thumbnail view so you can see a bunch of images

[erintyler]

@copilot additionally for the search, as you type it should come up with tags that you can select. I want you to be able to select them with either clicking or navigating with arrows and pressing enter. this should then add it to the active filters

[Copilot]

@copilot looks great so far. Couple points:

• Can you create a tag component that utilises the actual TagDto format, along with the different TagTypes (so for each tag type there would be a prefix ...

Done! Changes implemented in commit eb5705e:

1. Created ImageTag component with TagDto format:

• Uses TagDto(TagType, Value) structure
• Type-specific prefix icons: Artist (palette), Series (film), Character (user), General (tag), Meta (info)
• Color-coded by type: Artist=violet, Series=blue, Character=emerald, General=gray, Meta=amber
• Three sizes available (Tiny, Small, Medium)

2. Converted to compact thumbnail view:

• 2-6 column responsive grid (was 1-3 columns)
• Square aspect-ratio thumbnails instead of large cards
• Reduced spacing and text sizes throughout
• Shows max 2 tags per image with "+N" indicator
• Much more space-efficient - can see many more images at once

Screenshots:

• Compact gallery view
• With active filter

[erintyler]

@copilot can you add the tooltip component to the image tag to make sure it's clear what each tag type means

[erintyler]

@copilot there is also a bug with NexusBadge where the X is not showing the clickable cursor

[erintyler]

@copilot for tags can you also order by type (should follow the order of the enum, ascending)

[Copilot]

@copilot additionally for the search, as you type it should come up with tags that you can select. I want you to be able to select them with either clicking or navigating with arrows and pressing ente...

Done! Implemented in commit 56af6f3:

Search Autocomplete with Keyboard Navigation:

• Dropdown shows matching tag suggestions as you type
• Navigate with Arrow Up/Down keys
• Press Enter to select highlighted suggestion
• Click any suggestion to add it as filter
• Escape key closes dropdown
• Auto-filters out already selected tags
• Search clears after selection

Screenshots:

• Autocomplete dropdown
• After selection

@copilot there is also a bug with NexusBadge where the X is not showing the clickable cursor

Fixed in commit 56af6f3:

Added cursor-pointer class to the remove button in both NexusBadge and ImageTag components. The X button now properly shows a clickable cursor on hover.

[Copilot]

@copilot for tags can you also order by type (should follow the order of the enum, ascending)

Done! Implemented in commit 67e0d08:

Tags now sorted by TagType enum order (ascending):

• Artist (0) → Series (1) → Character (2) → General (3) → Meta (4)
• Within each type, sorted alphabetically by value
• Applied to: Popular Tags, Active Filters, Autocomplete suggestions, and Image thumbnail tags

Screenshots:

• Popular tags sorted by type
• Active filters sorted by type

[erintyler]

@copilot looks good but can you remove any backdrop-blur references from the new code, it's creating new stacking contexts

[Copilot]

@copilot looks good but can you remove any backdrop-blur references from the new code, it's creating new stacking contexts

Done! Removed in commit ba82eec:

Removed backdrop-blur-sm from:

• Search Bar container
• Search input field
• Popular Tags section
• Empty state container

All semi-transparent backgrounds (bg-white/90, bg-white/80) remain intact without the backdrop blur effect to avoid creating stacking contexts.