feat(devtools): add openAsModal to use the panel over app modal dialogs - #550
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A dialog opened with showModal() makes the rest of the page inert, the devtools included, and no z-index or popover gets past that. With `openAsModal: true`, while the panel is open and the app has a modal dialog open, the devtools root moves into a modal dialog of its own shown on top. It moves back when the panel or the app dialog closes. Escape closes only the panel: the hook prevents the browser from passing the same Escape on to the app dialog. A non-modal <dialog open> does not block the devtools, so it needs nothing. Fixes #369
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant AppDialog
participant DevTools
participant createModalHost
User->>AppDialog: Open with showModal()
User->>DevTools: Press the open hotkey
DevTools->>createModalHost: Pass setting, root, and open state
createModalHost->>AppDialog: Check for a modal dialog
createModalHost->>DevTools: Move root into host and open host modally
User->>DevTools: Close panel
createModalHost->>DevTools: Close host and restore root
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🟠 Major · Allow the open hotkey from inputs in an app modal. · devtools.tsx:173
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAllow the open hotkey from inputs in an app modal.
When
openAsModalis enabled and an appdialog:modalcontains the focused input, the editable-target guard prevents the documented open hotkey from callingtoggleOpen(). The trigger is inert while that app dialog is open, so users must move focus before opening DevTools.Keep the guard for ordinary inputs and DevTools inputs. Exclude the generated DevTools modal by checking whether the active element is inside
rootEl().Suggested fix
const isEditableTarget = (element: Element | null) => { if (!element || !(element instanceof HTMLElement)) return false if (element.isContentEditable) return true if (['INPUT', 'TEXTAREA', 'SELECT'].includes(element.tagName)) return true return element.getAttribute('role') === 'textbox' } for (const permutation of getHotkeyPermutations(settings().openHotkey)) { createShortcut(permutation, () => { - if (!isEditableTarget(document.activeElement)) toggleOpen() + const activeElement = document.activeElement + const isAppModalTarget = + settings().openAsModal && + activeElement instanceof Element && + activeElement.closest('dialog:modal') !== null && + !rootEl()?.contains(activeElement) + if (!isEditableTarget(activeElement) || isAppModalTarget) toggleOpen() }) }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 60-63: Update the observer in useModalHost to detect relevant
child-list changes as well as open-attribute changes, and call sync when an open
app dialog is removed so the host releases modal state and restores the app.
- Line 46: Update the `host.open` early return in the modal-host hook to detect
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- Line 173: Update the open-hotkey guard around toggleOpen() so editable targets
inside an app modal are allowed when openAsModal is enabled, while retaining the
guard for ordinary inputs and inputs inside rootEl().
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…emoved ones Two cases left the devtools or the page stuck: - The app opened another modal dialog while the panel was on top. That dialog became the topmost modal and the devtools were inert behind it. The host is now shown again when an app dialog opens after it. - The app removed an open dialog without close(), for example on unmount. That is a child list change, which the observer did not watch, so the host stayed modal and the page stayed inert. The observer now watches child list changes too.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Detect application modals inside shadow roots.
If an application calls showModal() on a dialog inside a shadow root, doc.querySelectorAll('dialog') does not find it. The observer on doc.documentElement also misses its open change. The application dialog still makes the Devtools root inert, so openAsModal does not make the panel interactive. Include accessible shadow roots in modal detection and observation, or state this limitation in the option’s contract. (dom.spec.whatwg.org)
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Review comment at @packages/devtools/src/hooks/use-modal-host.ts around lines 44
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Update modal detection and observation in the useModalHost flow to include
dialogs inside accessible shadow roots, so opening one with showModal() is
detected and the Devtools panel remains interactive under openAsModal. Preserve
the existing document-level behavior and observe relevant shadow-root changes as
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You can now use the devtools panel while your app has a modal dialog open: set
openAsModal: true, open the dialog, and press the open hotkey. The panel then shows on top of your dialog and takes input. When you close the panel, your dialog works again.🎯 Changes
dialog.showModal()makes the rest of the page inert, the devtools included. A z-index or apopovercannot get past this: only the content of the topmost modal dialog takes input.openAsModal(defaultfalse). While the panel is open and the app has a modal dialog open, the devtools root moves into a modal<dialog>of its own, shown on top. The root moves back when the panel or the app dialog closes.window).preventDefault()on that Escape, so the browser does not also close the app dialog.close()(for example on unmount), the devtools dialog closes too, and the page takes input again.<dialog open>(the repro text in Incorrect interaction with html dialog #369) does not block the devtools: the z-index already wins. I checked this in Chrome.✅ Checklist
pnpm test:pr, or these tests do not apply to this pull request.🚀 Release Impact
Testing
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e2e/apps/react-vite: all 35 tests pass, with 5 new tests inopen-as-modal.spec.ts. The tests for a second app dialog and a removed app dialog fail with the first version of the hook.vitest run,eslint,tsc, andprettier --checkinpackages/devtools: 370 tests pass, and the linters are clean.pnpm test:pr.Manual test
config={{ openAsModal: true }}on<TanStackDevtools>.dialog.showModal().Control+~. The panel opens on top of your dialog, and its buttons work.How this PR makes testing easy
e2e/apps/react-vite/tests/open-as-modal.spec.tsruns in the e2e CI job. The e2e app has a modal dialog and reads?open-as-modal. The tests cover the panel on top, Escape, a second app dialog, a removed app dialog, and the blocked panel without the option.Linked issues
Fixes #369
Risk / rollback
Low. Nothing changes unless an app sets the option. With the option, the devtools root moves in the DOM only while an app modal dialog and the panel are both open. To undo, revert this PR.
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openAsModaloption for displaying Devtools above an application dialog opened withshowModal(). While Devtools is open, the application dialog is inert; closing Devtools restores access to the dialog.