diff --git a/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx b/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx
index a4df1de..cbb6adf 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx
@@ -1395,6 +1395,19 @@ export default function OperationPanel({
                placeholder="optional" className={`${TEXT} w-full`} />
       </Field>
 
+      {/* Last field, then the button. In the bottom dock the ledger is the tall
+          column and this one is short, so a footer under both put Post directly
+          below the ledger -- you could read a figure, hit Post, and never pass
+          the tag at all. An untagged adjustment is invisible to the bridge and
+          to the change log's grouping, so the layout has to walk you through
+          the field rather than leave it off to the side. */}
+      <div className="pt-1 flex items-center gap-3">
+        <Submit onClick={() => submitOp(activeOp)} busy={!!opBusy}>
+          {opBusy ? POSTING : POST}
+        </Submit>
+        {opBusy && <span className="text-gray-500 leading-snug">writing rows…</span>}
+      </div>
+
       <RequestPreview payload={buildPayload(activeOp)} />
     </div>
   )
@@ -1476,22 +1489,6 @@ export default function OperationPanel({
         </div>
       )}
 
-      {/* Last, because it is last: pick the operation, read the ledger, name
-          the change, post it. The blank label keeps Post in the same column as
-          every other button in the panel rather than at an edge of its own.
-          Sticky, because the bottom dock is a fixed height with its own scroll
-          -- a primary action that has to be scrolled to is a primary action
-          people miss. */}
-      {hasSlice && (
-        <div className="sticky bottom-0 z-10 flex items-center gap-3 px-3 py-2 border-t border-gray-200 bg-gray-50">
-          <Field label="">
-            <Submit onClick={() => submitOp(activeOp)} busy={!!opBusy}>
-              {opBusy ? POSTING : POST}
-            </Submit>
-          </Field>
-          {opBusy && <span className="text-gray-500">writing rows — the pivot updates when it finishes</span>}
-        </div>
-      )}
     </div>
   )
 }