diff --git a/ui/dr-ui/ui/controls.slint b/ui/dr-ui/ui/controls.slint
index df73df5..482c4e2 100644
--- a/ui/dr-ui/ui/controls.slint
+++ b/ui/dr-ui/ui/controls.slint
@@ -759,7 +759,13 @@ export component TextRow inherits VerticalLayout {
 
         Rectangle {
             width: root.field-width;
-            height: field.preferred-height;
+            // The field's own height, not its `preferred-height`. `Field` is
+            // a Rectangle whose height is set outright rather than reported
+            // by a layout inside it, so its preferred height is zero; a
+            // zero-tall box here centres the field on its top edge, half a
+            // field above the row — which is where the label was, so from 0.9.0
+            // every `TextRow` drew its name behind its entry.
+            height: field.height;
             opacity: root.enabled ? 1.0 : 0.4;
 
             field := Field {
diff --git a/ui/dr-ui/ui/widgets.slint b/ui/dr-ui/ui/widgets.slint
index 3fbfd9a..9992514 100644
--- a/ui/dr-ui/ui/widgets.slint
+++ b/ui/dr-ui/ui/widgets.slint
@@ -764,11 +764,11 @@ export component Field inherits Rectangle {
     /// carried a second time, here, where the accessibility tree can attach it
     /// to the control the user is actually typing into.
     ///
-    /// That second copy is not redundant even where the caption renders. It is
-    /// the *only* copy where the caption does not: `TextRow`'s label draws
-    /// behind its own field on the settings page and has done since 0.9.0, so
-    /// a sighted user reading that page today has less to go on than a screen
-    /// reader does.
+    /// **Anything wrapping this sizes itself from `height`, not
+    /// `preferred-height`.** The height is set outright, so there is no layout
+    /// inside to report a preferred one and it reads zero. `TextRow` sized its
+    /// box from it from 0.9.0 to 0.15.0, the field centred itself half a field
+    /// above that empty box, and every `TextRow` label drew behind its entry.
     in property <string> label;
     in property <string> placeholder;
     /// Masks the entry, for a credential that should not be readable over the