MultimodalTextbox - new file upload layout takes up more space than needed.

[brianvandenbersselaar]

Describe the bug

In Gradio 5 MultimodalTextbox looked like this:
without files:

with files:

In Gradio 6 it looks like this:
without files:

with files:

The underlying HTML has been moved from 2 seperate div's to 1 singular div which takes up more screen real-estate than needed when the user hasnt uploaded any files yet. Please fix this behaviour.

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• I have searched and found no existing issues

Reproduction

import gradio as gr
FILE_EXTENSION_WHITELIST=[
    ".jpg",
    ".png",
    ".jpeg",
]

gr.MultimodalTextbox(
                    container=False,
                    show_label=False,
                    scale=6,
                    placeholder="placeholder",
                    submit_btn=False,
                    sources="upload",
                    file_count="multiple",
                    max_plain_text_length=10_000,
                    elem_id="textbox",
                    file_types=FILE_EXTENSION_WHITELIST,
                    value=ask_question_default_value,
                )
 

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Logs

System Info

Gradio Environment Information:
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Operating System: Darwin
gradio version: 6.0.2
gradio_client version: 2.0.1

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gradio dependencies in your environment:

aiofiles: 24.1.0
anyio: 4.12.0
audioop-lts: 0.2.2
brotli: 1.2.0
fastapi: 0.123.9
ffmpy: 1.0.0
gradio-client: 2.0.1
groovy: 0.1.2
httpx: 0.28.1
huggingface-hub: 1.1.7
jinja2: 3.1.6
markupsafe: 3.0.3
numpy: 2.3.5
orjson: 3.11.4
packaging: 25.0
pandas: 2.3.3
pillow: 12.0.0
pydantic: 2.12.4
pydub: 0.25.1
python-multipart: 0.0.20
pyyaml: 6.0.3
safehttpx: 0.1.7
semantic-version: 2.10.0
starlette: 0.50.0
tomlkit: 0.13.3
typer: 0.20.0
typing-extensions: 4.15.0
uvicorn: 0.38.0
mcp is not installed.
pydantic: 2.12.4
authlib is not installed.
itsdangerous: 2.2.0


gradio_client dependencies in your environment:

fsspec: 2025.12.0
httpx: 0.28.1
huggingface-hub: 1.1.7
packaging: 25.0
typing-extensions: 4.15.0

Severity

I can work around it