Thing Tile footer/status renders differently on Android portrait vs. landscape

[JKB121]

I’m trying to understand the layout behavior of the Thing tile status/footer on Android.

I realize custom CSS isn’t officially supported, so I’m not asking for help writing CSS. I’m trying to determine whether I’m running into a limitation of the Thing tile layout itself.

Here’s what I’ve observed:

• I created a new test dashboard containing only four Thing tiles.

• Two are dimmers displaying a percentage (5% and 16%).

• Two are switches.

• The behavior is the same on my full dashboard and on this minimal test dashboard.

On my Samsung S25:

• In portrait, the percentage text moves to the top of the tile.

  

• In landscape, the percentage moves much lower.

  

• The switch tiles don’t exhibit the issue because they don’t display a footer value.

I also connected Chrome Remote Debugging (ADB) and inspected the live page on the phone.

What I found:

• The HTML is the same.

• The computed CSS is the same.

• The difference appears to be how the footer/status is laid out or positioned after the page is rendered.

My question is:

Is there something about the Thing tile layout that intentionally positions the footer/status differently between portrait and landscape on Android?

Or is there another supported way to position or display the device status/percentage independently of the built-in footer?

I’m just trying to understand whether this is expected behavior before I spend more time trying to work around it.

Thanks!

EDIT: …and this is on a desktop computer.

[josh]

@JKB121

Is there something about the Thing tile layout that intentionally positions the footer/status differently between portrait and landscape on Android?

No, there’s no difference with a regular dashboard and styling.

It’s more likely the Custom CSS and potentially the type of units used for positioning things – for example using viewport relative units like VH and VW would behave very differently depending on the screen orientation. If you want to share more details on the Custom CSS, that might help.

[JKB121]

Thanks, Josh. I realized afterward that I was actually referring to Supertiles, not Thing tiles, when I asked the question. I was able to track down the issue on my end, so we’re good for now. I appreciate you getting back to me, and I’ll reach out if I run into anything else.