From a6aebbe2e06e6f2fb247a291272dcfbedb8ed63f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Southwell <saphid@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 11:59:24 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(web): size the model picker to its content (#15152)

Co-authored-by: saphid <saphid@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx    | 30 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx
index 70181947bc4a7352f3b64fe53f47f2c85f585511..53a2e9c45bacf7da154c077388b5af7d2ad6239d 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ export function adjacentModelPickerProvider(input: {
 }
 
 const EMPTY_MODEL_JUMP_LABELS = new Map<string, string>();
+const MODEL_LIST_ESTIMATED_ITEM_SIZE = 52;
 
 function ModelListSeparator() {
   return <div className="h-0.5" />;
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@ export const ModelPickerContent = memo(function ModelPickerContent(props: {
   const [showBottomScrollFade, setShowBottomScrollFade] = useState(false);
   const searchInputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
   const modelListRef = useRef<LegendListRef | null>(null);
+  const pickerContentRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   const highlightedModelKeyRef = useRef<string | null>(null);
   const favorites = useClientSettings((s) => s.favorites ?? []);
   const activeEntry = props.instanceEntries.find(
@@ -699,6 +701,17 @@ export const ModelPickerContent = memo(function ModelPickerContent(props: {
       ),
     [visibleModels],
   );
+  const [modelListContentSize, setModelListContentSize] = useState(
+    () => filteredItemKeys.length * MODEL_LIST_ESTIMATED_ITEM_SIZE,
+  );
+  const [searchHeight, setSearchHeight] = useState(0);
+  useLayoutEffect(
+    () => modelListRef.current?.getState().listen("totalSize", setModelListContentSize),
+    [],
+  );
+  // Fit the list to its rows plus the combobox list `py-1` and LegendList `py-1.5`.
+  const modelListHeight =
+    filteredItemKeys.length === 0 ? 0 : `calc(${modelListContentSize}px + var(--spacing) * 5)`;
   const updateModelListScrollFades = useCallback(() => {
     const scrollElement = modelListRef.current?.getScrollableNode();
     if (!(scrollElement instanceof HTMLElement)) {
@@ -815,7 +828,10 @@ export const ModelPickerContent = memo(function ModelPickerContent(props: {
   return (
     <TooltipProvider delay={0}>
       <div
-        className="relative flex h-screen max-h-86.5 w-screen max-w-90 flex-row overflow-hidden"
+        ref={pickerContentRef}
+        className="relative flex max-h-86.5 w-screen max-w-90 flex-row overflow-hidden"
+        // Hold the height from when the search started; results scroll instead of resizing.
+        style={isSearching ? { height: searchHeight } : undefined}
         data-model-picker-content="true"
       >
         {/* Sidebar */}
@@ -890,7 +906,10 @@ export const ModelPickerContent = memo(function ModelPickerContent(props: {
               ref={searchInputRef}
               placeholder="Search models..."
               value={searchQuery}
-              onChange={(e) => setSearchQuery(e.target.value)}
+              onChange={(e) => {
+                if (!isSearching) setSearchHeight(pickerContentRef.current?.offsetHeight ?? 0);
+                setSearchQuery(e.target.value);
+              }}
               onKeyDown={(e) => {
                 if (
                   showSidebar &&
@@ -944,7 +963,10 @@ export const ModelPickerContent = memo(function ModelPickerContent(props: {
             />
 
             {/* Model list */}
-            <div className="relative min-h-0 flex-1 overflow-hidden pr-px">
+            <div
+              className="relative min-h-0 overflow-hidden pr-px"
+              style={{ height: modelListHeight }}
+            >
               <ComboboxListVirtualized>
                 <LegendList<string>
                   ref={modelListRef}
@@ -1013,7 +1035,7 @@ export const ModelPickerContent = memo(function ModelPickerContent(props: {
                       />
                     );
                   }}
-                  estimatedItemSize={52}
+                  estimatedItemSize={MODEL_LIST_ESTIMATED_ITEM_SIZE}
                   drawDistance={480}
                   recycleItems
                   contentContainerClassName="pl-2 pr-px"
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