diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 620d856..9360703 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -285,6 +285,12 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         self.nav_recents = self._new_nav_tree("navRecents")
         self.nav_recents.itemClicked.connect(self._on_rail_recent)
         sv.addWidget(self.nav_recents, 1)
+        # Collapsing hides RECENTS, and with it the only item carrying a stretch
+        # factor. A box layout with nothing left to expand centres what remains,
+        # so the destinations dropped ~300px down the rail — "thu gọn menu lại
+        # ra giữa". This spacer takes the slack instead, and takes none of it
+        # while RECENTS is visible (stretch 0 against its 1).
+        sv.addStretch(0)
         self._nav_scroll.setWidget(scroll_body)
         nvl.addWidget(self._nav_scroll, 1)
         # Bottom-pinned group: the places you visit occasionally, kept out of the
diff --git a/tools/check_rail_align.py b/tools/check_rail_align.py
index 8000e3f..ca19f13 100644
--- a/tools/check_rail_align.py
+++ b/tools/check_rail_align.py
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ def main() -> int:
         app.processEvents()
         fails += compare(theme_name, rail, opened, closed)
         fails += column_widths_do_not_move_icons(win, app, theme_name)
+        fails += rows_stay_under_the_header(win, app, theme_name)
 
     print()
     for f in fails:
@@ -150,6 +151,35 @@ def main() -> int:
     os._exit(1 if fails else 0)
 
 
+def rows_stay_under_the_header(win, app, theme_name):
+    """The destinations start just below the ＋ button in both states.
+
+    Collapsing hides RECENTS, the one item in the scroll body with a stretch
+    factor. With nothing left to expand, a box layout centres what remains, and
+    the whole group slid ~300px down the rail.
+    """
+    from PySide6.QtCore import QPoint
+
+    rail = win._nav_wrap
+    gaps = {}
+    for state in ("open", "collapsed"):
+        if (state == "collapsed") != win._nav_collapsed:
+            win._toggle_nav()
+        app.processEvents()
+        btn = win.nav_new_chat
+        below = btn.mapTo(rail, QPoint(0, btn.height())).y()
+        top = win.nav.mapTo(rail, QPoint(0, 0)).y() +             win.nav.visualItemRect(win.nav.topLevelItem(0)).top()
+        gaps[state] = top - below
+    if win._nav_collapsed:
+        win._toggle_nav()
+        app.processEvents()
+    print(f"  gap under ＋: open={gaps['open']}px collapsed={gaps['collapsed']}px")
+    if abs(gaps["collapsed"] - gaps["open"]) > 4:
+        return [f"{theme_name}: the destinations sit {gaps['collapsed']}px below "
+                f"the ＋ button when collapsed but {gaps['open']}px when open"]
+    return []
+
+
 def column_widths_do_not_move_icons(win, app, theme_name):
     """The icon must not care how wide the column is.