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+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { renderToStaticMarkup } from "react-dom/server";
+import { Activity, Heart, Smile, Percent, TrendingUp } from "lucide-react";
+
+import { TrendCard } from "../trend-card";
+import { I18nProvider } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
+
+/**
+ * v1.4.25 W20a — regression coverage for the dashboard top-tile polish.
+ *
+ * Marc-direktive 2026-05-14 named three issues with the 5-tile top row:
+ *
+ *   1. Headings wrapped to two lines at narrow viewports (e.g. "Blood
+ *      Pressure" on Pixel 5 / 393 px / 2-col grid). Locked the heading
+ *      row to a deterministic `h-5` with `whitespace-nowrap` so even an
+ *      unexpectedly long string never breaks the baseline of the value
+ *      row below.
+ *   2. Trend arrow rendered as a wrapping flex child after the unit —
+ *      sometimes wrapped to its own line, sometimes missing entirely
+ *      when slope30 was null. Now sits in a fixed `h-4 w-4` slot with
+ *      `items-baseline` alignment; when there's no slope yet a muted
+ *      "—" placeholder keeps the slot reserved.
+ *   3. Value rows of two adjacent tiles (e.g. "Weight 80 kg" vs.
+ *      "Blood Pressure 122 mmHg") landed at different y-coordinates
+ *      because heading-row height was variable. The fixed heading
+ *      height plus `text-3xl leading-none` on the value forces every
+ *      tile in the strip to share the same baseline.
+ *
+ * These tests pin the load-bearing class names so a future refactor
+ * that drops `h-5` / `items-baseline` / `whitespace-nowrap` triggers a
+ * red CI before it reaches the dashboard.
+ */
+
+const RISING = { slope: 0.5, direction: "up" as const, confidence: 0.8 };
+
+function render(node: React.ReactNode) {
+  return renderToStaticMarkup(
+    <I18nProvider initialLocale="en">{node}</I18nProvider>,
+  );
+}
+
+describe("<TrendCard> W20a baseline alignment", () => {
+  it("locks the heading row to a deterministic height", () => {
+    const html = render(
+      <TrendCard
+        label="Weight"
+        latest={80}
+        unit="kg"
+        avg7={80}
+        avg30={80}
+        slope30={RISING}
+        icon={Activity}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    // h-5 is the load-bearing class — keeps the value row below at the
+    // same y-coordinate regardless of the label string's actual width.
+    expect(html).toContain("h-5");
+    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="trend-card-label"');
+  });
+
+  it("forbids wrapping on the heading row even with a long label", () => {
+    const html = render(
+      <TrendCard
+        // Stress test — the live tile uses dashboard.*Short keys but
+        // we want the layout to survive an i18n regression that wires
+        // a long form by accident.
+        label="A really long blood pressure metric name"
+        latest={122}
+        unit="mmHg"
+        avg7={120}
+        avg30={119}
+        slope30={RISING}
+        icon={Heart}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    expect(html).toContain("whitespace-nowrap");
+    expect(html).toContain("truncate");
+  });
+
+  it("renders the value row with baseline alignment", () => {
+    const html = render(
+      <TrendCard
+        label="Weight"
+        latest={80}
+        unit="kg"
+        avg7={80}
+        avg30={80}
+        slope30={RISING}
+        icon={Activity}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="trend-card-value-row"');
+    expect(html).toContain("items-baseline");
+    // Headline font-size + zero line-height — across-tile baseline.
+    expect(html).toContain("text-3xl");
+    expect(html).toContain("leading-none");
+  });
+
+  it("places the trend arrow inline at the end of the value row", () => {
+    const html = render(
+      <TrendCard
+        label="Weight"
+        latest={80}
+        unit="kg"
+        avg7={80}
+        avg30={80}
+        slope30={RISING}
+        icon={Activity}
+        directionSentiment="up-bad"
+      />,
+    );
+
+    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="trend-card-arrow"');
+    // The arrow slot sits inside the value row, so the value-row data
+    // slot precedes it in the rendered HTML.
+    const valueRowIdx = html.indexOf('data-slot="trend-card-value-row"');
+    const arrowIdx = html.indexOf('data-slot="trend-card-arrow"');
+    expect(valueRowIdx).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
+    expect(arrowIdx).toBeGreaterThan(valueRowIdx);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the arrow slot reserved when slope is missing", () => {
+    const html = render(
+      <TrendCard
+        label="Pulse"
+        latest={68}
+        unit="bpm"
+        avg7={null}
+        avg30={null}
+        slope30={null}
+        icon={TrendingUp}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    // Slot still rendered (deterministic width across the strip).
+    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="trend-card-arrow"');
+    // Placeholder dash + muted opacity so the slot reads as "no data".
+    expect(html).toMatch(/opacity-30[^"]*"[^>]*>—/);
+  });
+
+  it("renders consistent layout across the five top-row tile metrics", () => {
+    // Snapshot-style smoke check — every tile in the top row should
+    // share the same heading-row height + value-row baseline class
+    // contract so the strip aligns visually on Pixel 5.
+    const tiles = [
+      { label: "Weight", value: 80, unit: "kg", icon: Activity },
+      { label: "BP (Sys)", value: 122, unit: "mmHg", icon: Heart },
+      { label: "Pulse", value: 68, unit: "bpm", icon: TrendingUp },
+      { label: "Body Fat", value: 18.5, unit: "%", icon: Percent },
+      { label: "Mood", value: 4, unit: "/ 5", icon: Smile },
+    ];
+
+    for (const tile of tiles) {
+      const html = render(
+        <TrendCard
+          label={tile.label}
+          latest={tile.value}
+          unit={tile.unit}
+          avg7={tile.value}
+          avg30={tile.value}
+          slope30={RISING}
+          icon={tile.icon}
+        />,
+      );
+
+      // Same heading-row height contract — `h-5` + `whitespace-nowrap`.
+      expect(html).toContain("h-5");
+      expect(html).toContain("whitespace-nowrap");
+      // Same value-row baseline contract — `items-baseline` + `text-3xl`
+      // + `leading-none`. Identical font geometry across all five tiles
+      // means the digits land at the same y-coordinate inside the grid.
+      expect(html).toContain("items-baseline");
+      expect(html).toContain("text-3xl");
+      expect(html).toContain("leading-none");
+      // Same arrow slot contract — fixed width, end-anchored via `ml-auto`.
+      expect(html).toContain('data-slot="trend-card-arrow"');
+      expect(html).toContain("ml-auto");
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe("dashboard.*Short keys exist across all six locales", () => {
+  // Defensive integrity check — the i18n-locale-integrity test guards
+  // top-level parity across messages/*.json, but a hand-rolled list of
+  // the exact short keys the dashboard tile strip pulls makes a missing
+  // key fail with a precise diagnostic rather than a generic "key X is
+  // missing in locale Y" surface.
+  const REQUIRED_KEYS = [
+    "weightShort",
+    "bloodPressureSysShort",
+    "bloodPressureDiaShort",
+    "pulseShort",
+    "bodyFatShort",
+    "moodShort",
+    "sleepShort",
+    "stepsShort",
+    "vo2MaxShort",
+    "bpInTargetShort",
+  ];
+
+  // Resolved at test time so the assertion runs against the current
+  // bundle, not a stale cached snapshot.
+  const locales = ["en", "de", "fr", "es", "it", "pl"] as const;
+
+  it.each(locales)("%s carries every dashboard.*Short key", async (locale) => {
+    const messages = (await import(`../../../../messages/${locale}.json`))
+      .default;
+    const dashboard = messages.dashboard ?? {};
+    for (const key of REQUIRED_KEYS) {
+      expect(dashboard[key], `dashboard.${key} missing in ${locale}.json`)
+        .toBeTypeOf("string");
+      expect(
+        (dashboard[key] as string).length,
+        `dashboard.${key} empty in ${locale}.json`,
+      ).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    }
+  });
+});