Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

Arabic text is cut at the top or bottom, or lines are too close

Kuwait and Gulf

What you may see

Dots and marks above or below letters are clipped
Headings look squeezed

Most likely cause

Arabic letters need more vertical room than Latin letters; a small line-height or a fixed height with overflow hidden cuts them.

Check first (about two minutes)

Look at the line-height of the heading and its container's height/overflow.

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a senior front-end engineer who knows HTML, CSS, React, phones and Arabic right-to-left pages, and explains things to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

I am in Kuwait. If the service has a Kuwait or Gulf rule or option that matters here (for example KNET, Arabic right-to-left text or local time), take it into account.

THE PROBLEM
Arabic text is cut at the top or bottom, or lines are too close

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
Arabic letters need more vertical room than Latin letters; a small line-height or a fixed height with overflow hidden cuts them.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Raise the line-height for Arabic text (about 1.5 for body and 1.3 or more for headings) and use padding instead of fixed heights.
2. Remove overflow: hidden from text containers unless needed.
3. Use smaller headline sizes in Arabic than in English if the lines wrap badly.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- Arabic headings and body text show all dots and marks, at 390 and 1280 px.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not change the English styles.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Raise the line-height for Arabic text (about 1.5 for body and 1.3 or more for headings) and use padding instead of fixed heights.
Remove overflow: hidden from text containers unless needed.
Use smaller headline sizes in Arabic than in English if the lines wrap badly.

Do not do this

Do not use line-height: 1 for Arabic.
Do not change the English styles.

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