adobe / adobe/spectrum-web-components
[Bug]: Overlay popovers have incorrect tip placement in RTL
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- TypeScript
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Description
### Code of conduct
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### Impacted component(s)
sp-overlay, sp-popover
### Expected behavior
Popover tip should align with the trigger like in LTR: https://opensource.adobe.com/spectrum-web-components/storybook/index.html?path=/story/overlay--default&globals=system:express
### Actual behavior
https://opensource.adobe.com/spectrum-web-components/storybook/index.html?path=/story/overlay--default&globals=system:express;textDirection:rtl
### Screenshots
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### What browsers are you seeing the problem in?
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### How can we reproduce this issue?
1. Go to https://opensource.adobe.com/spectrum-web-components/storybook/index.html?path=/story/overlay--default&globals=system:express;textDirection:rtl
2. Open the popover
### Sample code or abstract reproduction which illustrates the problem
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### Severity
None
### Logs taken while reproducing problem
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### Would you like to track this issue in Jira?
- [x] Yes, please tell me the ticket number!
Contributor guide
Research direction
Open the linked Storybook overlay example in RTL and compare it with the LTR version first. Then inspect the sp-overlay and sp-popover components to trace tip placement; done means the popover tip aligns with its trigger in RTL as it does in LTR.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend, internationalization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100