[HOLD for payment 2023-02-02] [$2000] Messages with itallic, bold and other formatting have lesser height than messages without them

[kavimuru]

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Action Performed:

1. Action Performed:
2. Open the app
3. Go to any chat
4. Write a message with 1 or 2 lines & send
5. Write the same message but use some formatting like bold in one of those lines & send
6. compare the heights of both messages and you'll notice the difference

Expected Result:

The height should be more than or equal to the unformatted message but not less

Actual Result:

Formatted message has lesser height than the unformatted message

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.2.43-1
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos:

height-difference.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @daraksha-dk
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1671730788385549

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[puneetlath]

@Expensify/design can I get your perspective on this?

[shawnborton]

Regular	Italic

Looks like we just need to make sure the lineHeight: 20 is applied to all of the message styles, not just regular. So yeah, this is a bug and should be a very simple fix.

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @mananjadhav (External)

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