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Trap focus in modal dialogs
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Description
focus-trap is de facto standard for trapping focus in modal dialogs. It may be added to ModalDialog with the following snippet:
useEffect(() => {
if (modalDialog.current == null) {
return () => {};
}
const trap = focusTrap.createFocusTrap(modalDialog.current, {
allowOutsideClick: shadowClick,
escapeDeactivates: onClose != null,
preventScroll: false, // handled by useOverlay()
});
trap.activate();
return () => trap.deactivate();
}, [onClose, shadowClick]);
But after that Tab navigation in some dialogs breaks and needs to be fixed in every dialog one-by-one.
Possibly, the modern approach would be to migrate to <dialog> and showModal().
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Research direction
Start at the ModalDialog component and inspect how useOverlay() currently handles scrolling and focus. Evaluate the proposed focus-trap integration against each dialog, including the reported Tab-navigation failures, and compare it with the possible
and showModal() approach. Done means keyboard focus is correctly trapped and Tab navigation works in every dialog.Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100