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fix(modal): don't clip highlights by root elements whose overflow applies to the viewport - #3556

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Fixes #1984.

Problem

_isScrollable treats <body> as a scroll container whenever its computed overflow-y is auto/scroll. But while <html> is overflow: visible, body's overflow propagates to the viewport, and body's used overflow becomes visible, so body crops nothing. Once body is sized to the viewport (html, body { height: 100% }, or 100vh), scrollTo scrolls body's rect off-screen. _getVisibleHeight then clamps the target against that off-screen rect, and the opening collapses to zero height over a fully visible target.

Reproduced in Chromium (target 2000px down, scrollTo: true):

styles before after
html,body{height:100%} body{overflow:auto} opening { y: 0, height: 0 } { y: 0, height: 40 }
body{height:100vh;overflow:auto} { y: 0, height: 0 } { y: 0, height: 40 }
html{overflow:hidden} + body scrolls (real body scroller) correct unchanged, still clips
body scroller via contain: paint on body correct unchanged, still clips

The fix proposed in the issue (window.scrollY + scrollTop) mixes document and viewport coordinates and would break real nested scroll containers, so this PR fixes the root cause instead.

Change

In _isScrollable (shepherd.js/src/components/shepherd-modal.ts):

  • document.documentElement is never a clipper, because its overflow always applies to the viewport.

  • document.body is skipped only when body's overflow actually propagates. That requires all of the following:

    • <html> is overflow: visible on both axes. html { overflow-x: clip } alone leaves overflow-y computing to visible, but body still scrolls itself.
    • Neither <html> nor <body> has a contain value other than none. I tested every keyword, including style and inline-size, and each one stops propagation in Chromium.

    In every other case body remains a clipper, as before.

This is the root-awareness half of #3484. The rest of #3484 (display-awareness, overflow: hidden) follows in the stacked #3557.

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  • Unit (shepherd-modal.spec.js, "root elements"):

    • body with propagated overflow doesn't clip
    • <html> never clips
    • body still clips when <html> isn't visible, when <html> clips only the other axis, and when either element is contained

    Each regression case fails without its fix.

  • Cypress (root-overflow.cy.js + examples/root-overflow.html, plus a shared utils/overlay-openings.js that reads opening geometry back out of the svg path) covers the real-layout behaviour that happy-dom can't express. CI's Tests job is green.

  • vitest run: 294/294 pass; eslint, prettier, and tsc are clean.

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…lies to the viewport

`_isScrollable` treated <body> as a scroll container whenever its computed
overflow-y was `auto`/`scroll`. But while <html> is `overflow: visible`,
body's overflow propagates to the viewport and body's used overflow is
`visible`, so it crops nothing. With body sized to the viewport
(`height: 100%`), scrolling a target below the initial fold into view moved
body's rect off-screen and the overlay opening collapsed to zero height,
covering the target it was meant to highlight.

<html> is now never treated as a clipper (its overflow always applies to
the viewport), and <body> only when <html>'s overflow is not `visible`.

Fixes #1984

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The modal scrollability check now excludes the document root. It conditionally excludes body when root overflow is visible on both axes and neither root nor body has containment. Unit and Cypress tests cover root and body overflow configurations.

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Root overflow clipping

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scrollability rules and unit tests
shepherd.js/src/components/shepherd-modal.ts, shepherd.js/test/unit/components/shepherd-modal.spec.js
_isScrollable excludes the document root. It excludes body when root overflow is visible on both axes and neither root nor body is contained. Unit tests cover root and body clipping cases.
Cypress overlay-opening tests
shepherd.js/test/cypress/examples/root-overflow.html, shepherd.js/test/cypress/utils/overlay-openings.js, shepherd.js/test/cypress/integration/root-overflow.cy.js
The fixture and tests cover overlay openings under two root/body overflow configurations. overlayOpenings(doc) extracts opening coordinates and heights from the SVG path.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to bee49

This change stops highlights from being clipped by root elements whose overflow applies to the viewport, and it keeps body as a clipper when it is a real scroll container. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed [#1984] reports that a scrolled target can be covered because body’s viewport-propagated overflow makes _getVisibleHeight() clamp against body’s off-screen rectangle. _isScrollable now excludes `d…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The _isScrollable change and its unit tests directly address [#1984]. The Cypress example, test, and overlay-opening helper support regression testing of the same defect. No unrelated changes are es…
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Any `contain` value on <html> or <body> stops body's overflow propagating
to the viewport, leaving body a real scroll container even while <html> is
`overflow: visible` (verified in Chromium for layout, paint, size, style,
content, strict and inline-size). Only skip body when neither is contained.

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🟡 Minor · Check both root overflow axes before skipping body. · shepherd-modal.ts:275-290

shepherd.js/src/components/shepherd-modal.ts:275-290
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Check both root overflow axes before skipping body.

When <html> computes overflow-x: clip and overflow-y: visible, this branch still skips <body>. CSS propagates body overflow to the viewport only when both root axes are visible. If a step target is clipped by a scrolling body, _getScrollParents omits that clipper, so _getVisibleHeight can leave the overlay opening outside the body’s clip.

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       if (
+        rootStyle.overflowX === 'visible' &&
         rootStyle.overflowY === 'visible' &&
         !_isContained(rootStyle) &&
         !_isContained(style)
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Update the body check in `_getScrollParents` so it skips `body` only when both
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Body's overflow propagates to the viewport only while the root's overflow
is `visible` on both axes. With `html { overflow-x: clip }`, overflow-y
still computes to `visible` but body keeps its own scroll container
(verified in Chromium), so check overflowX too.

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