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🆕 What is the new behavior?

  • Support roving tabindex keyboard navigation for dropdown and dropdown-button
  • Simplify overlay/stacking controller

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  • 🦮 Accessibility (a11y) features were implemented
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  • New Features

    • Added navigationMode="roving-tabindex" for dropdowns and dropdown buttons; active-descendant remains the default.
    • Roving mode moves keyboard focus between items and supports custom focusable elements.
    • Added preview examples and Storybook documentation across supported frameworks.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Tab, Shift+Tab, and Escape behavior across nested dropdowns and popovers.
    • Improved focus restoration, submenu behavior, overlay coordination, and accessibility handling.

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Walkthrough

Adds roving-tabindex navigation to dropdowns and dropdown buttons. The change adds native opt-in items, focus restoration, shared nested-overlay coordination, framework previews, typings, Storybook coverage, and regression tests.

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Dropdown roving tabindex

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared overlay and focus coordination
packages/core/src/components/utils/nested-overlay/..., packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown-controller.ts, packages/core/src/components/popover/...
Dropdowns and popovers use shared registry and coordinator APIs for hierarchy, dismissal, and focus coordination.
Navigation mode and roving interaction contract
packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown-focus.ts, packages/core/src/components/dropdown-button/dropdown-button.tsx, packages/core/src/components.d.ts, packages/angular/src/components.ts, packages/core/component-api.json
Adds navigationMode and implements roving tabindex, native data-ix-roving-item support, keyboard activation, capture handling, and tabindex restoration.
Dropdown lifecycle and hierarchical focus behavior
packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown.tsx, packages/core/src/components/dropdown-item/dropdown-item.tsx, packages/core/src/components/dropdown/test/*, packages/core/src/components/dropdown-button/dropdown-button.ct.ts
Integrates roving navigation into opening, submenu handling, mode changes, Tab and Escape behavior, cleanup, and activation.
Nested popover integration and validation
packages/core/src/components/popover/test/popover.ct.ts, packages/core/src/components/popover/test/popover-controller.spec.ts
Tests focus trapping, nested dropdown-popover behavior, Tab focus transfer, and Escape dismissal ordering.
Focus-trap and composed-tree validation
packages/core/src/components/utils/focus/..., packages/core/src/components/utils/shadow-dom.ts, packages/core/src/components/utils/test/shadow-dom.spec.ts
Updates focus-trap ordering, hidden-element detection, excluded overlay hosts, and shadow-DOM traversal.
Preview examples and release documentation
packages/*-test-app/**/dropdown-roving-tabindex*, packages/storybook-docs/src/stories/dropdown-button.stories.ts, .changeset/dropdown-roving-tabindex.md, packages/core/src/components/ix-playground/ix-playground.scss
Adds framework previews, routes, a Storybook story, release documentation, and playground layout styles.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Dropdown
  participant DropdownController
  participant OverlayCoordinator
  participant Popover
  User->>Dropdown: Select roving-tabindex navigation
  Dropdown->>DropdownController: Register presentation and focus state
  DropdownController->>OverlayCoordinator: Coordinate hierarchy and dismissal
  OverlayCoordinator->>Popover: Exclude nested overlays from focus trapping
  User->>Dropdown: Press Tab or Escape
  Dropdown->>OverlayCoordinator: Dismiss dropdown hierarchy
  OverlayCoordinator->>Popover: Preserve parent popover focus
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Suggested reviewers: nuke-ellington, alexkaduk, dmytro-halimov

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 21b42

Dropdown focus, selection semantics, or nested-overlay handling can still fail in reachable edge cases. Resolve or explicitly accept these issues before merging.

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This pull request introduces a new navigationMode property to ix-dropdown and ix-dropdown-button components, enabling a roving-tabindex keyboard navigation strategy alongside the default active-descendant mode. It also coordinates nested overlay hierarchies between dropdowns and popovers to ensure seamless keyboard navigation and focus management. Key feedback highlights several critical issues: undefined functions focusLast and focusFirst are used in dropdown.tsx which will cause runtime errors; closestPassShadow fails to traverse across shadow boundaries due to unhandled ShadowRoot nodes; and negative tabindex elements are not excluded when calculating sequential tab order. Additionally, it is recommended to use a Set to track visited IDs in hierarchy traversals to prevent potential infinite loops.

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In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown-button/dropdown-button.ct.ts`:
- Around line 174-217: Add makeAxeBuilder() accessibility assertions to the
roving-tabindex regression tests in the dropdown-button test file, covering the
rendered dropdown in its new focus/tabindex state. Apply the same axe coverage
to the additional roving-tabindex test range, while preserving the existing
hydration and focus/ARIA behavior assertions.

In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown.tsx`:
- Around line 983-992: Replace the inline tab-order sorting in the dropdown’s
focusable-elements flow with the shared sortByTabOrder comparator from
focus-trap.ts. Export the existing helper if necessary, import and reuse it
here, and preserve the current positive-tabIndex ordering with document-order
tie-breaking.

In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/test/dropdown.ct.ts`:
- Around line 793-813: Add an accessibility check using makeAxeBuilder() to the
Roving tabindex navigation tests, covering the mounted
navigation-mode="roving-tabindex" dropdown fixture. Reuse the existing
regressionTest setup and assert the axe scan passes alongside the current focus
and tabindex behavior checks.

In `@packages/core/src/components/utils/nested-overlay/overlay-coordinator.ts`:
- Around line 153-164: In dismissCrossTypeChildren, split the
children.reverse().forEach(...) chain into separate statements: reverse children
first, then invoke forEach to dismiss each entry with the existing reason.
Preserve the current reverse-order dismissal behavior.

In `@packages/react-test-app/src/preview-examples/dropdown-roving-tabindex.tsx`:
- Line 18: Replace the anonymous default-export arrow function with a named
function component in the default export, preserving its existing JSX and
behavior so React DevTools and Fast Refresh can identify it.
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  1. Escape closes both a dropdown and its parent popover
     dropdown.tsx:467-469 
    In default  active-descendant  mode, the dropdown handles Escape without stopping propagation. The event then reaches the overlay coordinator and also closes the parent popover.
    Expected behavior is one overlay layer per Escape press. Add coverage for the default navigation mode; the existing test only covers  roving-tabindex.

  2. Opening a dropdown inside a popover owned by another dropdown closes the complete  dropdown → popover → dropdown  chain.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown-controller.ts`:
- Around line 124-137: Add cycle protection to the hierarchy traversals
suppressTriggerFocusRestore, getRootDropdown, and Dropdown.getDropdownHierarchy
by tracking visited dropdown IDs and stopping when an ID has already been
visited. Ensure self-links and mutual parent/child links terminate safely while
preserving existing traversal behavior for acyclic hierarchies.

In `@packages/core/src/components/ix-playground/ix-playground.scss`:
- Around line 4-5: Add the repository-standard SPDX license header at the
beginning of the SCSS source containing the .playground selector, before the
:host rule, without changing the styling declarations.
- Around line 7-9: Update the ix-playground SCSS spacing declarations to use
var(--theme-space-5), var(--theme-space-3), and var(--theme-space-4) instead of
the corresponding rem values, and add the standard SPDX header used by component
SCSS files.

In `@packages/core/src/components/utils/focus/focus-trap.ts`:
- Around line 291-325: Update isHiddenFromTabOrder so that when
element.checkVisibility is available, return its result directly (while
retaining the existing visibility check as required); only perform the
display:none ancestor walk in the fallback path for browsers without
checkVisibility().

In `@packages/core/src/components/utils/nested-overlay/overlay-coordinator.ts`:
- Around line 146-156: Update getFocusTrapExcludedHosts to track visited overlay
keys while following getParentKey, matching the guard used by getAncestorKeys.
Stop traversal when a key repeats, and preserve the existing return of
excludedHosts only when the host is reached; otherwise return an empty array.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown-item/dropdown-item.tsx`:
- Line 146: Update the rendering logic using disableAriaSelectHandling so a
consumer-provided prop value is preserved, especially true when itemRole is
“option”; derive a separate effective value that only applies the role-based
default when no prop was provided, without mutating the `@Prop`.

In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown-focus.ts`:
- Around line 441-459: Update onItemActivation and its call site in the dropdown
focus handling to reflect that getActiveElement() may return null: make the
callback parameter nullable and ensure consumers handle the null case, or guard
the callback invocation when activeElement is absent. Remove the non-null
assertion while preserving activation behavior for an active element.

In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown.tsx`:
- Around line 968-1003: Optimize getTabExitTarget by avoiding the full-document
focusableElements query, closestPassShadow filtering, layout checks, and global
sort on every Tab press. Narrow the tab-order search outward from the trigger
while preserving parent-focus handling, shift-tab behavior, and the existing
next/previous focus target semantics.
- Around line 955-966: Guard the dropdown lookup in getDropdownHierarchy by
stopping the parent walk when getDropdownById returns undefined, before pushing
the parent or calling getId. In openSubmenu, validate that submenuIds[0]
resolves to a submenu before calling dropdownController.present, skipping
presentation when it does not.

Apply the same fix in `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown.tsx` around
lines 1240 - 1263.

In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/test/dropdown-controller.spec.ts`:
- Around line 62-72: Make the test cleanup failure-safe by ensuring both
controller.disconnected calls for parent.dropdown and child.dropdown execute
even when either assertion fails, using the test framework’s guaranteed cleanup
mechanism while preserving the existing assertions and setup.

In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/test/dropdown.ct.ts`:
- Around line 1211-1212: Update the dropdown test fixture around the
positive-tabindex case by moving `#positive-tabindex` after `#after` in document
order while retaining its positive tabindex. Extend the Tab-order assertion for
the trigger so it verifies `#positive-tabindex` is reached before `#after`,
exercising the sortByTabOrder path.

In `@packages/core/src/components/popover/popover-controller.ts`:
- Around line 132-142: Update dismissChildrenWithFocus and its recursive dismiss
flow to track visited popover IDs and stop when an ID has already been
processed, preventing cyclic parent/child registry relationships from causing
repeated recursion. Preserve the existing closeFocus propagation and dismissal
behavior for non-cyclic hierarchies.

In `@packages/core/src/components/popover/test/popover.ct.ts`:
- Line 673: Replace the ID-based locators for native user-facing buttons in the
affected popover tests with page.getByRole('button', { name: ... }) using each
button’s accessible name. Update the references around outside, close, and
related button controls while retaining CSS locators for custom element hosts
and host-state assertions.

In `@packages/core/src/components/utils/nested-overlay/overlay-coordinator.ts`:
- Around line 276-287: Update isDescendantOf to track visited keys while
traversing getParentKey, matching the cycle guard used by getAncestorKeys. Stop
traversal when a key repeats, while preserving the existing true result when
parentKey is found and false otherwise.

In
`@packages/core/src/components/utils/nested-overlay/test/overlay-coordinator.spec.ts`:
- Around line 133-167: Extend the overlay coordinator tests with two presented
overlays whose triggers are mutually contained, then invoke
getFocusTrapExcludedHosts and isTopmostInHierarchy and assert both complete with
the expected result. Use this case to cover cycle termination in getParentKey
traversal, including the visited-set behavior in isDescendantOf, without
altering the existing acyclic hierarchy test.

In `@packages/core/src/components/utils/test/shadow-dom.spec.ts`:
- Around line 107-117: Update the test named “finds an ancestor through an
assigned slot” so the expected section is placed inside the shadow root as the
slot’s parent, rather than wrapping the host in an external section; assert that
inner section is returned by closestPassShadow(child, 'section') to exercise
assignedSlot traversal.

In `@packages/storybook-docs/src/stories/dropdown-button.stories.ts`:
- Line 44: Update the native roving-item button in the dropdown story to
explicitly set its type to button, preventing it from acting as a form submit
control while preserving the existing data-ix-roving-item attribute.
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961-965: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the getDropdownById result before dereferencing it.

dropdownController.getDropdownById returns DropdownInterface | undefined. The as Dropdown cast erases that. If the registry still holds a parent id whose instance was removed, Line 963 pushes undefined into hierarchy and Line 964 calls parent.getId() on it, which throws a TypeError during a Tab keypress in roving mode. closeAndReleaseFocus then leaves the dropdown open with focus lost.

The sibling path in openSubmenu (Lines 1239-1243) now guards the lookup. Apply the same guard here.

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     while (parentId) {
-      const parent = dropdownController.getDropdownById(parentId) as Dropdown;
+      const parent = dropdownController.getDropdownById(parentId) as
+        | Dropdown
+        | undefined;
+      if (!parent) {
+        break;
+      }
       hierarchy.push(parent);
       parentId = dropdownController.getParentDropdownId(parent.getId());
     }

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In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown.tsx` around lines 961 - 965,
Guard the result of getDropdownById in the parent-hierarchy traversal before
pushing it or calling getId(). Update the while loop to stop when the parent
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In `@packages/core/src/components/dropdown/dropdown.tsx`:
- Around line 961-965: Guard the result of getDropdownById in the
parent-hierarchy traversal before pushing it or calling getId(). Update the
while loop to stop when the parent lookup returns undefined, matching the
existing openSubmenu guard while preserving normal hierarchy traversal.

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