Overlay: Add popover support

.changeset/pretty-masks-kick.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@primer/react': minor
+---
+
+Overlay: Adds popover API support

e2e/components/AnchoredOverlay.test.ts

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ const stories: Array<{
   buttonNames?: string[]
   openDialog?: boolean
   openNestedDialog?: boolean
+  nestedButtonName?: string
 }> = [
   // Default
   {
@@ -119,6 +120,12 @@ const stories: Array<{
     id: 'components-anchoredoverlay-dev--reposition-after-content-grows-within-dialog',
     waitForText: 'content with 300px height',
   },
+  {
+    title: 'Nested Overlay',
+    id: 'components-anchoredoverlay-dev--nested-overlay',
+    buttonName: 'Open AnchoredOverlay',
+    nestedButtonName: 'Open nested Overlay',
+  },
 ] as const
 
 const theme = 'light'
@@ -181,6 +188,11 @@ test.describe('AnchoredOverlay', () => {
             const overlayButton = page.getByRole('button', {name: buttonName}).first()
             await overlayButton.click()
 
+            // Open nested overlay if needed
+            if (story.nestedButtonName) {
+              await page.getByRole('button', {name: story.nestedButtonName}).click()
+            }
+
             // for the dev stories, we intentionally change the content after the overlay is open to test that it repositions correctly
             if (story.waitForText) await page.getByText(story.waitForText).waitFor()
             await waitForImages(page)

packages/react/src/AnchoredOverlay/AnchoredOverlay.dev.stories.tsx

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {Button} from '../Button'
 import {AnchoredOverlay} from '.'
 import {Stack} from '../Stack'
 import {Dialog, Spinner, ActionList, ActionMenu} from '..'
+import Overlay from '../Overlay'
 
 const meta = {
   title: 'Components/AnchoredOverlay/Dev',
@@ -309,3 +310,48 @@ export const WithActionMenu = {
     },
   },
 }
+
+export const NestedOverlay = () => {
+  const [anchoredOpen, setAnchoredOpen] = useState(false)
+  const [overlayOpen, setOverlayOpen] = useState(false)
+  const buttonRef = useRef<HTMLButtonElement>(null)
+
+  return (
+    <div>
+      <AnchoredOverlay
+        open={anchoredOpen}
+        onOpen={() => setAnchoredOpen(true)}
+        onClose={() => {
+          setAnchoredOpen(false)
+          setOverlayOpen(false)
+        }}
+        renderAnchor={props => <Button {...props}>Open AnchoredOverlay</Button>}
+        focusZoneSettings={{disabled: true}}
+        height="large"
+        width="large"
+      >
+        <div style={{padding: '16px', width: '300px'}}>
+          <p style={{marginBottom: '16px'}}>This is the AnchoredOverlay content.</p>
+          <Button ref={buttonRef} onClick={() => setOverlayOpen(!overlayOpen)}>
+            {overlayOpen ? 'Close' : 'Open'} nested Overlay
+          </Button>
+          {overlayOpen && (
+            <Overlay
+              returnFocusRef={buttonRef}
+              onClickOutside={() => setOverlayOpen(false)}
+              onEscape={() => setOverlayOpen(false)}
+              top={200}
+              left={100}
+              width="small"
+              popover="manual"
+            >
+              <div style={{padding: '16px'}}>
+                <p>This is a nested Overlay inside the AnchoredOverlay.</p>
+              </div>
+            </Overlay>
+          )}
+        </div>
+      </AnchoredOverlay>
+    </div>
+  )
+}

packages/react/src/AnchoredOverlay/AnchoredOverlay.module.css

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
     top: calc(anchor(bottom) + var(--base-size-4));
     left: anchor(left);
 
+    /* Flips to the opposite side of the anchor if there's more space left of the anchor than right of it. */
     &[data-align='left'] {
       left: auto;
       right: calc(anchor(right) - var(--anchored-overlay-anchor-offset-left));

packages/react/src/Overlay/Overlay.module.css

@@ -200,6 +200,14 @@
     visibility: hidden;
   }
 
+  &[popover]:not([data-anchor-position]) {
+    inset: auto;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+    border: 0;
+    max-width: none;
+  }
+
   &:where([data-responsive='fullscreen']),
   &[data-responsive='fullscreen'][data-anchor-position='true'] {
     @media screen and (--viewportRange-narrow) {

packages/react/src/Overlay/Overlay.tsx

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ type BaseOverlayProps = {
   children?: React.ReactNode
   className?: string
   responsiveVariant?: 'fullscreen' // we only support fullscreen today but we might add bottomsheet in the future
+  popover?: 'auto' | 'manual'
 }
 
 type OwnOverlayProps = Merge<StyledOverlayProps, BaseOverlayProps>
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ const Overlay = React.forwardRef<HTMLDivElement, internalOverlayProps>(
       visibility = 'visible',
       width = 'auto',
       responsiveVariant,
+      popover,
       ...props
     },
     forwardedRef,
@@ -229,6 +231,20 @@ const Overlay = React.forwardRef<HTMLDivElement, internalOverlayProps>(
       )
     }, [anchorSide, slideAnimationDistance, slideAnimationEasing, visibility])
 
+    // Show popover when using the Popover API
+    // Skip if CSS anchor positioning is enabled (handled by AnchoredOverlay)
+    useLayoutEffect(() => {
+      if (!popover || !overlayRef.current || cssAnchorPositioning) return
+
+      try {
+        if (!overlayRef.current.matches(':popover-open')) {
+          overlayRef.current.showPopover()
+        }
+      } catch {
+        // Ignore if popover is already showing or not supported
+      }
+    }, [popover, cssAnchorPositioning])
+
     // To be backwards compatible with the old Overlay, we need to set the left prop if x-position is not specified
     const leftPosition = left === undefined && right === undefined ? 0 : left
 
@@ -243,6 +259,7 @@ const Overlay = React.forwardRef<HTMLDivElement, internalOverlayProps>(
         height={height}
         visibility={visibility}
         data-responsive={responsiveVariant}
+        popover={popover}
         {...props}
       />
     )