README.md

@@ -376,6 +376,9 @@ Then put it behind your existing reverse proxy like everything else
       it was bucketing by display name instead of Emby's own SortName,
       so an article-stripped title ("The ...") threw a whole run off —
       see docs/architecture.md
+- [x] Fixed library tile buttons rendering on top of the sticky header
+      while scrolling — an equal z-index tie that a scrolling tile won
+      — see docs/architecture.md
 - [ ] Try a full party end-to-end with two real accounts (still the main gap)
 - [ ] Try casting to a real Chromecast (only the SDK's own bootstrap is
       confirmed here — no real device/session)

client/src/alphaIndex.css

@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
   grid-column: 1 / -1;
   position: sticky;
   top: var(--section-sticky-top, 0px);
-  z-index: 2;
+  /* Same z-index: 3 as views/library/Library.css's own .libraryHeader,
+     and for the identical reason: tiles.css's .tileOverlay is z-index:
+     2, and a tie there breaks toward whichever renders later in the
+     DOM - a tile, always after this heading. */
+  z-index: 3;
   background: var(--bg);
   color: var(--accent-bright);
   font-size: 13px;

client/src/views/library/Library.css

@@ -8,7 +8,18 @@
 .libraryHeader {
   position: sticky;
   top: 0;
-  z-index: 2;
+  /* Above 2, not just tiles.css's own .searchBar precedent: a tile's
+     .tileOverlay action buttons are ALSO z-index: 2, and (unlike the
+     slim .searchBar this header replaced) this header is tall enough
+     that a scrolling tile's own overlay - always-visible on touch, see
+     tiles.css's (hover: none) block - reaches it well before it's fully
+     scrolled past. Equal z-index ties break on paint order, and a tile
+     (inside #grid, after this header in the DOM) wins that tie -
+     reported directly as buttons rendering over the header while
+     scrolling. z-index: 3 matches shell/Shell.css's own .mobileTopBar,
+     the other sticky header this one already has to stack correctly
+     under on mobile. */
+  z-index: 3;
   background: var(--bg);
   padding-top: 4px;
 }

docs/architecture.md

@@ -4103,6 +4103,42 @@ it produced the same `A, B, T, B, L` heading sequence against the old
 bucket-by-`name` code, then confirmed the fix collapses it to the
 correct `A, B, L` against the exact same input.
 
+## Library tile buttons rendering on top of the sticky header
+
+Reported directly: scrolling a library, a tile's own action buttons
+("Lancer une watch party" / "Voir sur Emby") would briefly render
+*above* the sticky title+search header instead of scrolling behind it.
+
+Both `.libraryHeader` and the alphabet index's `.letterHeading` were
+`z-index: 2` - copied from `tiles.css`'s own pre-existing `.searchBar`,
+sticky at that same value long before either of them existed. What
+that copy missed: a tile's own `.tileOverlay` (its hover-revealed
+action buttons - always-visible rather than hover-revealed on a touch
+device, see `tiles.css`'s `(hover: none)` block) is *also* `z-index: 2`.
+Equal z-index is a tie, and a tie breaks toward whichever renders later
+in the DOM - a tile, inside `#grid`, always after the header. The
+original slim `.searchBar` never showed this in practice (a single
+input has little vertical range to actually overlap a scrolling tile
+during the transition); wrapping it into the much taller
+`.libraryHeader` gave a scrolling tile far more room to pass directly
+underneath before fully clearing it, is what actually surfaced it.
+
+Fixed by raising `.libraryHeader` and `.letterHeading` to `z-index: 3`
+- comfortably clear of `.tileOverlay`'s 2, and matching
+`shell/Shell.css`'s own `.mobileTopBar` (the other sticky header
+`.libraryHeader` already has to stack correctly under on mobile).
+
+Verified: full `typecheck`/`build` (client only). Confirmed as a real
+regression, not just reasoned about - real compiled CSS loaded into a
+page reproducing `.libraryHeader` + a real `.grid` of tiles (their
+`.tileOverlay` forced visible, simulating a touch device), scrolled so
+a tile genuinely overlapped the header's own rect, then
+`elementsFromPoint` read the actual paint order at that point: with
+the header's z-index forced back to the old `2`, `.tileOverlay` topped
+the stack exactly as reported; restored to `3`, the header (and the
+search input inside it) topped it instead, `.tileOverlay` three layers
+down, unreachable.
+
 ## Known limitations
 
 - Playback always goes through `hls.js` against whatever Emby's