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fix(modal): stop the iframe offset walk at the window the overlay renders into - #3558

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Fixes #3478.

Confirmed

I built the two-level same-origin repro the issue asked for and ran it in Chromium. The top document holds frame A at (50, 100); frame A hosts Shepherd and holds frame B at (30, 60); frame B holds the target at (10, 20).

opening expected (in A's viewport)
main (90, 180) (40, 80)
this PR (40, 80) ✅ (40, 80)

The drift is exactly frame A's position, as suspected. The overlay is position: fixed in A's document, but the walk ran on to window.top and added A's own offset.

Change

_getIframeOffset in shepherd.js/src/components/shepherd-modal.ts now stops at container.ownerDocument.defaultView, the window whose document the overlay renders into. As a safety stop, it also ends at the top window (the window that is its own parent) when the target isn't nested under the modal window at all. The single-level case (Shepherd in the top document) is unchanged, because there the modal window is window.top. Cross-origin traversal still stops at the SecurityError, keeping the offset accumulated so far.

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  • Unit: the iframe tests previously replaced document.defaultView, which is the modal container's document too, and only asserted visibility. They now swap only the target's ownerDocument and assert the computed offsets:
    • one frame: M23,15, including iframe scroll
    • two frames below the modal: offsets summed, M80,160
    • Shepherd itself framed (window.frameElement / parent / top stubbed): M30,60. On main this produces M80,160 and fails.
    • target not under the modal window: terminates
    • cross-origin SecurityError: doesn't throw, and keeps the offset accumulated before the boundary
  • Cypress: iframes.cy.js + examples/iframes/{nested,host,content}.html cover both the single-frame and nested layouts on real layout. It reads the opening back from the svg path through a small utils/overlay-openings.js helper, which is also added in fix(modal): don't clip highlights by root elements whose overflow applies to the viewport #3556 with identical content. The Cypress binary couldn't be downloaded in my environment, so I drove the same pages and helper in Chromium through Playwright: the nested case fails on main (90,180) and passes here, and the single-frame case passes on both.
  • vitest run: 292/292 pass; eslint, prettier, and tsc are clean.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected modal overlay positioning for targets in nested iframes. Offsets now account for frames up to the window where the modal is displayed, and positioning remains stable when a target is outside that frame hierarchy or cross-origin access prevents further traversal.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for overlay positioning in top-level and nested iframe scenarios.

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`_getIframeOffset` accumulated frame offsets until `window.top`. The overlay
is `position: fixed` inside the document Shepherd renders into, so when
Shepherd itself runs inside a same-origin frame and targets an element a
frame further down, the walk also added the hosting frame's offset and the
opening drifted off the target by exactly that frame's position (confirmed in
Chromium: top -> host frame at 50,100 -> content frame; opening at 90,180
instead of 40,80).

The walk now stops at the modal container's window, and at the top window
(its own parent) if the target is not nested under it at all.

The iframe unit tests now swap only the target's ownerDocument, so the
modal container stays in the real window, and assert the computed offsets
rather than just visibility. A Cypress spec covers both the single-frame and
the nested-frame layouts on real layout.

Fixes #3478

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011RqamMhESzSaWmRHLw2Vai
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_getIframeOffset now stops accumulating frame offsets at the window that owns the modal. Unit and Cypress tests cover offsets when Shepherd runs in the top document or a nested frame.

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Iframe modal offsets

Layer / File(s) Summary
Offset traversal and unit coverage
shepherd.js/src/components/shepherd-modal.ts, shepherd.js/test/unit/components/shepherd-modal.spec.js
Offset traversal stops at the modal container’s window. Unit tests cover nested offsets, the modal window boundary, targets outside that frame hierarchy, and cross-origin traversal.
Iframe integration coverage
shepherd.js/test/cypress/examples/iframes/*, shepherd.js/test/cypress/integration/iframes.cy.js, shepherd.js/test/cypress/utils/overlay-openings.js
Cypress fixtures and tests check overlay opening position and height when Shepherd runs in the top document or a nested frame.

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The fallback offset needs a stronger test assertion, but the identified gap does not establish an incorrect opening in the current implementation. This is mergeable with a test follow-up.

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1388-1397: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the fallback frame offset.

This fixture accumulates the sibling frame’s offset, but only checks that setup does not throw. Assert that the returned path contains M30,60 to verify the fallback preserves that offset.

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-      expect(() => startStepInFrame(modal, siblingWindow)).not.toThrow();
+      expect(startStepInFrame(modal, siblingWindow)).toContain('M30,60');
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Review comment at @shepherd.js/test/unit/components/shepherd-modal.spec.js
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Update the test using startStepInFrame to assert that its returned path contains
the sibling frame offset M30,60, rather than only asserting that the call does
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Iframe offset walk terminates at window.top instead of Shepherd's own window

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