Description

While working on #74147, @talldan noticed that if you toggle the Title field while the Media field is visible, then it jumps from its controlled position within the list, which looks a bit awkward, but also results in a focus loss when interacting via keyboard. I believe the cause is that we only lock the position of the fields when they're visible, but not when they're hidden:

I can see the reasoning as it looks good when the locked visible fields are all at the top together. On balance, though, I think if we're forcing this order, then it might be better to retain that order irrespective of the status of the isVisibleFlag.

Also, previously the locked fields that didn't allow enableHiding had a lock icon, which is no longer present. I think that was an intentional removal by @youknowriad to simplify things, but I may be misremembering. Just mentioning it here in case it wasn't intentional.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

To see it in practice, you can test with the media modal experiment:

With this enabled, go to add a featured image to a post, then switch to the table view. Play around with toggling field visibility for the title field.

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Environment info

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