The login/register page and the auth modal had drifted into a parallel
system: floating-input fields, a sign-page-card shell and a bespoke
jio-auth-modal wrapper that none of the theme's own sign CSS targeted.
The reference card rules (.sign, .sign-img, .sign-content, .line-form-input,
.scale-placeholder, .social_loginbar, .title-h-left, #u_sign .modal-dialog,
.qrcode-signin-container) have been in main.css all along, so the fix is to
render the reference DOM instead of re-styling a second one.
auth-content.php now emits one .sign.jio-panel.blur-bg.relative card with a
.tab-content of #tab-sign-in / #tab-sign-up / #tab-resetpassword /
#tab-qrcode-signin / #tab-bind panes. Each pane opens with a
.title-h-left.fa-2x heading plus a .muted-color.px12 link, fields are
.relative.line-form.mb10 > .line-form-input + .scale-placeholder +
.line-form-line, the verification trigger is the .yztx.abs-right captchsubmit
button, and submits are .but.radius.jb-blue|jb-green.padding-lg.btn-block.
Social entries come from the shared render_social_buttons() separator +
.social_loginbar, and the OAuth bind pane uses the oauth-data-box avatar card.
The modal shell is #u_sign.modal > .modal-dialog > .sign-content >
.sign-img.absolute.hide-sm + .sign, and the page shell is the reference
.container.sign-page > .row.sign-row.gutters-5 > .col-md-6(.col-md-offset-6/
.col-md-offset-3).sign-col with a .fixed.lazyload background and a blurred
fixed footer. auth.js drives .in instead of .is-open, toggles the new
password/signin-mode/invite-gate controls and no longer touches the retired
markup. The page also drops two footer-hook removals that targeted functions
which no longer exist, and opts out of the fixed-nav offset.
The sign page's custom theme setting now actually applies: Router answers
jio_forced_theme_mode, jioData.themeForced wins over the stored cookie in
theme.js, theme-toggle positions are suppressed, and the page marks html/body
dark or white accordingly.
sign.css shrinks from ~114 lines of bespoke component styling to a thin
positioning layer, and the retired classes are gone rather than kept.
Verification: php -l on every changed PHP file, node --check on both JS files,
node --test across widget-system, navigation and front-submit (873 passing),
and tools/audit-psr4-paths.php / audit-admin-contracts.php both at 0 errors.
assets/js/runtime/main.min.js was rebuilt because theme.js gained the forced
theme branch.
Align homepage and category discovery, modern widgets, admin controls, quotes, and comments with the reference theme. Remove superseded paths and add rendering and behavior coverage. Update stale asset and finance contracts; all 760 Node tests and 139 widget assertions pass.