Fix admin messages never auto-dismissing (root cause) #66

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ff587d9e1b Fix server-rendered admin messages never auto-dismissing
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Root cause: Wagtail's w-messages Stimulus controller only auto-clears
messages added dynamically via JavaScript (the add() method).  Server-
rendered messages — the <li> elements produced by Django's messages
framework after a redirect — have no connect() lifecycle handler and
sit in the DOM indefinitely.

PR #64 added data-w-messages-auto-clear-value="8000" which correctly
handles dynamic messages, but server-rendered ones were unaffected.
PR #64 also added {% ifchanged %} for de-duplication, which doesn't
address persistence.

Fix: mark server-rendered <li> elements with data-server-rendered and
add an inline script that removes them after 8 seconds (matching the
auto-clear timeout for dynamic messages).  Also remove the ineffective
{% ifchanged %} de-duplication.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-19 10:55:30 +00:00