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feat(web): let Dialog and AlertDialog footers sit at any depth - #311
A Dialog.Footer only reached the band under the panel when it was a direct child of Dialog.Content. Inside a fragment or a component of your own, it stayed in the panel. That blocks the clean way to give a dialog fresh state on each opening: keep the root mounted so open and close both animate, and put the form in a component inside Content, which Base UI unmounts after the close.
Dialog.Content (inset look) and AlertDialog.Content now render an empty display: contents band slot after the panel, and the footer portals into it from any depth. plain dialogs and a footer outside any Content still render where they are written. The usage notes say the footer can sit at any depth and describe the fresh-state pattern; docs, registry and skills are regenerated.
Checked in Chromium with the same change applied to panelui-web 0.14.0 in Outlayr's web app:
A footer inside a body component, inside fragments, and as a direct child all land in [data-slot=dialog-band] after the panel.
With the root kept mounted, open animates (scale 0.95 to 1, 8px slide, fade) and close animates (scale to 0.95, fade). The body's state resets on each opening.
A dialog nested inside another dialog's Content closes on its own and leaves the outer one open.
release:check, typecheck, catalogue:check, build --workspace=panelui-web, test:a11y and npm test pass locally.
Note: an inline preview rendered on the server has no footer until hydration, because the band is found through a ref. It appears on the first client render.
Behavior change: an inset footer written inside a <form> now moves out of it, so its submit button needs form set to the form's id. The Forms docs already asked for that; the Footer JSDoc and notes now say why.
Reviewed with sol-loop: 1 round with gpt-6.1-sol. Sol verdict: approved
Made by Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code, running in T3 Code.
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New Features
Inset Dialog and AlertDialog footers can be nested anywhere inside their content and still appear in the footer area.
Documentation
Clarified that plain Dialog footers stay where written and should follow the body to remain outside the scroll area.
Added guidance that portaled submit buttons need the form’s form attribute, and that Dialog content unmounts after closing, so state kept inside it starts fresh when reopened. The Dialog root remains mounted for animations.
Content found its footer by scanning its direct children, so a footer inside a fragment or a component of the consumer's own stayed in the panel. Content now renders an empty band slot and the footer portals into it from wherever it is written.
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Dialog and alert dialog footers can now appear at any depth inside content. Content provides a footer band for portal rendering. Documentation describes footer placement, form submission requirements, and dialog content state on reopening.
Changes: Nested dialog footers
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Footer bands and portal rendering packages/web/src/components/{alert-dialog,dialog}/index.tsx, apps/docs/public/r/web/{alert-dialog,dialog}.json
Dialog and alert dialog content provide a footer-band target. Footers portal into that target when available. The previous direct-child extraction is removed.
Footer placement and form guidance apps/docs/content/docs/web/components/{alert-dialog,dialog}.mdx, apps/docs/public/skills/panelui-web/components/{alert-dialog,dialog}.md, apps/docs/scripts/web-usage/{alert-dialog,dialog}.json, skills/panelui-web/components/{alert-dialog,dialog}.md
Documentation allows nested footers. Dialog guidance covers form IDs for portaled submit buttons, content unmounting on close, and fresh state on reopening.
Dialog and AlertDialog footers can now be nested at any depth, and the docs describe the form attribute requirement and plain-footer placement. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains. Footer controls placed inside a disabled fieldset would no longer be disabled once they move to the band, which is a rare edge case.
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Review comments at @apps/docs/scripts/web-usage/dialog.json:
- Line 20: Update the `Footer` description in the dialog usage content to
clarify that inset footers move to the band from any depth within
`Dialog.Content`, while plain footers stay where written with a top border.
Explain that a plain footer must be a direct child of `Dialog.Content`, after
`Dialog.Body`, to remain outside the scrolling body.
Review comments at @packages/web/src/components/dialog/index.tsx:
- Around line 431-433: Update the inset footer portal behavior so a submit
button in an existing form retains its form association after being moved by
createPortal; alternatively, document the required form attribute as a migration
for nested inset footers. Keep the change scoped to the inset footer path
identified by variant and band.
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"ListGroup": "A run of items under a `label`, which stays pinned at the top while its items scroll under it.",
"ListItem": "One choice. `selected` tints and checks it, `onSelect` is called when it is pressed or chosen with Enter, and `meta` puts quieter text at its end in figures that line up.",
"Footer": "The buttons. In the inset look they sit in the band as equal pills; in `plain` they sit at the end of a ruled strip. Keep it a direct child of `Dialog.Content`.",
"Footer": "The buttons. In the inset look they sit in the band as equal pills; in `plain` they sit at the end of a ruled strip. It can sit at any depth inside `Dialog.Content`.",
printf'%s\n''--- web skill generator bindings ---'
rg -n -F -e 'web-usage' -e 'content/docs' -e 'parts' -e 'writeFile' -e 'readFile' -- apps/docs/scripts/build-web-skill.mjs
printf'%s\n''--- web docs generator blocks ---'
nl -ba apps/docs/scripts/gen-web.mjs | sed -n '1,60p;165,220p;258,262p'printf'%s\n''--- web skill generator ---'
nl -ba apps/docs/scripts/build-web-skill.mjs | sed -n '1,200p'
Repository: panel-ui/PanelUI
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Qualify the plain footer placement rule.
A plain Dialog.Footer inside Dialog.Body stays in the scrolling body. It does not stay fixed at the foot of the dialog.
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--- "a/apps/docs/scripts/web-usage/dialog.json"+++ "b/apps/docs/scripts/web-usage/dialog.json"@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
"List": "A list of one-line choices, such as time zones or the projects to move something to. The arrow keys, Home and End move between its items, and it opens scrolled to the selected one.",
"ListGroup": "A run of items under a `label`, which stays pinned at the top while its items scroll under it.",
"ListItem": "One choice. `selected` tints and checks it, `onSelect` is called when it is pressed or chosen with Enter, and `meta` puts quieter text at its end in figures that line up.",
- "Footer": "The buttons. In the inset look they sit in the band as equal pills; in `plain` they sit at the end of a ruled strip. It can sit at any depth inside `Dialog.Content`.",+ "Footer": "The buttons. In the inset look they move to the band as equal pills from any depth inside `Dialog.Content`. In `plain` the footer stays where written with a top border. Put it after `Dialog.Body` as a direct child of `Dialog.Content` to keep it outside the scrolling body.",
"Close": "Closes the dialog. Pass your own button as `render`, such as Cancel."
},
"examples": [
Then run npm run docs:generate --workspace=docs.
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"Footer": "The buttons. In the inset look they sit in the band as equal pills; in `plain` they sit at the end of a ruled strip. It can sit at any depth inside `Dialog.Content`.",
"Footer": "The buttons. In the inset look they move to the band as equal pills from any depth inside `Dialog.Content`. In `plain` the footer stays where written with a top border. Put it after `Dialog.Body` as a direct child of `Dialog.Content` to keep it outside the scrolling body.",
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Review comment at @apps/docs/scripts/web-usage/dialog.json at line 20:
Update the `Footer` description in the dialog usage content to clarify that
inset footers move to the band from any depth within `Dialog.Content`, while
plain footers stay where written with a top border. Explain that a plain footer
must be a direct child of `Dialog.Content`, after `Dialog.Body`, to remain
outside the scrolling body.
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Thanks @danestves! This shipped in panelui-web 0.17.0, which is now on npm (npm i panelui-web@0.17.0). Dialog and Alert Dialog footers can sit at any depth inside Content, and the docs for both are updated.
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Dialog.Footeronly reached the band under the panel when it was a direct child ofDialog.Content. Inside a fragment or a component of your own, it stayed in the panel. That blocks the clean way to give a dialog fresh state on each opening: keep the root mounted so open and close both animate, and put the form in a component insideContent, which Base UI unmounts after the close.Dialog.Content(inset look) andAlertDialog.Contentnow render an emptydisplay: contentsband slot after the panel, and the footer portals into it from any depth.plaindialogs and a footer outside anyContentstill render where they are written. The usage notes say the footer can sit at any depth and describe the fresh-state pattern; docs, registry and skills are regenerated.Checked in Chromium with the same change applied to
panelui-web0.14.0 in Outlayr's web app:[data-slot=dialog-band]after the panel.Contentcloses on its own and leaves the outer one open.release:check,typecheck,catalogue:check,build --workspace=panelui-web,test:a11yandnpm testpass locally.Note: an
inlinepreview rendered on the server has no footer until hydration, because the band is found through a ref. It appears on the first client render.Behavior change: an inset footer written inside a
<form>now moves out of it, so its submit button needsformset to the form'sid. The Forms docs already asked for that; the Footer JSDoc and notes now say why.Reviewed with sol-loop: 1 round with gpt-6.1-sol. Sol verdict: approved
Made by Claude Opus 5.5 (
claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code, running in T3 Code.Summary by CodeRabbit
formattribute, and that Dialog content unmounts after closing, so state kept inside it starts fresh when reopened. The Dialog root remains mounted for animations.