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@stokesman stokesman commented Mar 23, 2025

Status

Drafted because:

  • I'm thinking to try an alternative of using the <dialog> element
  • This should probably handle restoring the menu container into its original place upon viewport size becoming large enough that the menu is not overlaid
  • The admin bar related styling may be worth changing. This could probably be a separate PR though.

What?

Closes #69635

Ensures the Navigation block’s overlaid menu container is not confined by its parent/ancestor boxes.

Why?

The overlaid content is expected to behave as a root/top level element able to overlay the entire document.

How?

In the editor this uses createPortal to make the container a child of the body element. In the front end this uses appendChild to do the same.

Testing Instructions

#69635 is an issue that is reproducible in Firefox or Safari so test with one of those browsers.

Here is markup for testing, though you’ll have to update the navigation for your site.

<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://pd.w.org/2021/05/97060b09513e73a89.38852584-2048x1536.jpeg","dimRatio":50,"customOverlayColor":"#001240","isUserOverlayColor":true,"minHeight":20,"minHeightUnit":"vw","sizeSlug":"full","style":{"border":{"radius":"99em","color":"#0069e9","width":"6px"}},"layout":{"type":"constrained"}} -->
<div class="wp-block-cover has-border-color" style="border-color:#0069e9;border-width:6px;border-radius:99em;min-height:20vw"><img class="wp-block-cover__image-background size-full" alt="" src="https://pd.w.org/2021/05/97060b09513e73a89.38852584-2048x1536.jpeg" data-object-fit="cover"/><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim" style="background-color:#001240"></span><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container"><!-- wp:group {"style":{"position":{"type":"sticky","top":"0px"}},"layout":{"type":"constrained"}} -->
<div class="wp-block-group"><!-- wp:navigation {"ref":4} /--></div>
<!-- /wp:group --></div></div>
<!-- /wp:cover -->
  1. Open a post
  2. Paste in the markup from above
  3. Switch to "Mobile" device preview
  4. Open the navigation menu inside the Cover block
  5. Verify the overlaid menu appears as expected
  6. View/Preview the post
  7. Ensure the viewport is narrow enough that the navigation is in mobile/overlay mode
  8. Open the navigation menu
  9. Verify the overlaid menu appears as expected

Screenshots or screencast

Editor

Before After
editor-nav-overlay-before.mp4
editor-nav-overlay-after.mp4

Front end

Before After
front-end-nav-overlay-before.mp4
front-end-nav-overlay-after.mp4

@stokesman stokesman added [Type] Bug An existing feature does not function as intended [Block] Navigation Affects the Navigation Block labels Mar 23, 2025
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  • I'm thinking to try an alternative of using the <dialog> element

I'd love to collaborate with you on using dialog (or popover)

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I'd love to collaborate with you on using dialog (or popover)

Thanks! I did open a draft to use dialog in #69720. I actually started that branch from #63917 but made the dialog modal. I wish I’d realized sooner that the dialog doesn’t have to be modal to be in the top-level so your branch already fixes the containment issue motivating my explorations 😅.

Oh, I also just came across #68755 it would appear to be much like your branch but also aiming to make the submenus use the Popover API.

I think moving forward with your PR seems best. It seems we could restore the focus trapping (for now) and still get the benefits of no JS required to open/close the dialog. It would fix #69363. I have it rebased locally and would be glad to take a look at getting the E2E tests passing.

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Great!

I was thinking actually of going to dialog to get the focus-trapping benefits. The reason I was going with popover was so that the nav menu could be opened declaratively without any JS. However, with Invoker Commands coming later this year, it will also be possible to open a dialog declaratively. While Invoker Commands aren't available yet, we could provide a polyfill once they are implemented in one browser. This will at least fix #69635 the short term as well as eliminate all JS related to focus-trapping. The only JS remaining then would be to actually open the dialog, but that too could eliminated with Invoker Commands.

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stokesman commented Mar 28, 2025

I don’t have too strong an opinion on the approach. At first I was fully aboard for the modal dialog but then I started considering that accessibility without JS (#69363) may be the greater concern and therefore the declarative popover approach would be indicated. Also either way fixes #69635.

Ultimately, if the modal dialog is the most semantic we’d want to get there eventually. If we start there it would seem to spare some effort compared to starting with the popover and later switching to the modal dialog.

It’d be good to involve some more folks on which approach is most favorable.

If we want to go with the modal dialog #69720 is practically ready and I’ll probably mark is as such after I fill out the description.

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This approach is feasible but I’m closing it in favor of #69720.

@stokesman stokesman closed this Mar 28, 2025
@stokesman stokesman deleted the try/portaled-navigation-menu-container branch March 28, 2025 23:55
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