Popover

Overview

VyPopover reveals contextual content from a trigger. It defaults to a touch-friendly bottom sheet with a backdrop, drag-to-dismiss behavior, and snap sizing. Opt into presentation="anchor" for a compact panel measured and positioned next to its trigger on wider surfaces.

Popover does not currently have a bundled docs-playground fixture. The examples below use the public kit API and can be copied into a Lynx application.

Usage

The default presentation is a bottom sheet. Use controlled state when content needs to close itself.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { VyButton, VyPopover } from '@vyui/kit'

const open = ref(false)
</script>

<template>
  <VyPopover v-model:open="open">
    <VyButton>Show details</VyButton>

    <template #content="{ close }">
      <view class="flex flex-col gap-3 p-4">
        <text class="text-lg font-semibold">Release details</text>
        <text class="text-neutral-600">
          Version 1.4 is ready to deploy.
        </text>
        <VyButton @tap="close">
          Done
        </VyButton>
      </view>
    </template>
  </VyPopover>
</template>

The default slot is already wrapped in the appropriate trigger. Do not also open the popover from a tap handler on the slotted child.

Sheet presentation

Configure the sheet height with viewport fractions. The core sheet sorts snap points from smallest to largest and initially uses index 0.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { VyButton, VyPopover } from '@vyui/kit'

const open = ref(false)
</script>

<template>
  <VyPopover
    v-model="open"
    :snap-points="[0.35, 0.75]"
    :handle="true"
  >
    <VyButton>Choose filters</VyButton>

    <template #content="{ close }">
      <view class="flex flex-col gap-4 p-5">
        <text class="text-lg font-semibold">Filters</text>
        <text>Sheet content can scroll when it exceeds the panel.</text>
        <VyButton @tap="close">
          Apply
        </VyButton>
      </view>
    </template>
  </VyPopover>
</template>

Set dismissible="false" to disable backdrop dismissal and drag-to-close. The content must then provide a controlled close action.

Anchored presentation

Use anchored mode for tablet or wide-screen interfaces. side, align, and sideOffset control docking around the measured trigger.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { VyButton, VyPopover } from '@vyui/kit'

const open = ref(false)
</script>

<template>
  <VyPopover
    v-model:open="open"
    presentation="anchor"
    :content="{ side: 'bottom', align: 'end', sideOffset: 8 }"
  >
    <VyButton>Account</VyButton>

    <template #content="{ close }">
      <view class="flex flex-col gap-3 w-72 p-4">
        <text class="font-semibold">Signed in as Kealan</text>
        <text class="text-sm text-neutral-500">[email protected]</text>
        <VyButton @tap="close">
          Close
        </VyButton>
      </view>
    </template>
  </VyPopover>
</template>

Anchored content is still rendered inside a full-screen overlay wrapper. A tap outside dismisses it by default and does not pass through to the underlying app.

Prevent outside dismissal

When anchored content is not dismissible, outside taps emit close:prevent and leave it open.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { VyButton, VyPopover } from '@vyui/kit'

const open = ref(false)
const blocked = ref(false)
</script>

<template>
  <VyPopover
    v-model:open="open"
    presentation="anchor"
    :dismissible="false"
    @close:prevent="blocked = true"
  >
    <VyButton>Critical form</VyButton>

    <template #content="{ close }">
      <view class="flex flex-col gap-3 w-80 p-4">
        <text>Save or cancel before leaving this panel.</text>
        <text v-if="blocked" class="text-warning-600">
          Outside dismissal is disabled.
        </text>
        <VyButton @tap="close">
          Cancel
        </VyButton>
      </view>
    </template>
  </VyPopover>
</template>

Custom measured anchor

The anchor slot replaces the built-in anchored trigger. It is measured for placement but is not wrapped in PopoverTrigger, so open it explicitly and keep state controlled.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { VyButton, VyPopover } from '@vyui/kit'

const open = ref(false)
</script>

<template>
  <VyPopover
    v-model:open="open"
    presentation="anchor"
    :content="{ side: 'top', align: 'center', sideOffset: 12 }"
  >
    <template #anchor>
      <VyButton @tap="open = !open">
        Custom anchor
      </VyButton>
    </template>

    <template #content="{ close }">
      <view class="p-4">
        <text>Positioned from the custom anchor.</text>
        <VyButton @tap="close">
          Close
        </VyButton>
      </view>
    </template>
  </VyPopover>
</template>

Features and behavior

• Bind v-model:open to open, or use the v-model alias backed by modelValue.
• When both are supplied, open takes precedence over modelValue.
• Every open-state change emits both update:open and update:modelValue.
• defaultOpen initializes the underlying primitive when state is uncontrolled.
• Sheet mode uses the core Sheet primitives, is always modal, and supports backdrop dismissal, drag-to-close, and snap fractions.
• Anchor mode measures the trigger with useElementRect when it opens and on trigger layout changes.
• Anchor mode supports top, right, bottom, or left sides; alignment can be start, center, or end.
• Calling the content slot's close() only emits open-state updates. Use controlled state so the parent feeds false back to the component.
• The open slot prop is derived from the controlled props. In uncontrolled usage it does not reflect the primitive's internal state.
• mode="hover" currently behaves like click mode. openDelay and closeDelay are accepted but unused.
• arrow is accepted for API parity but no arrow primitive is rendered.
• portal is accepted for API parity. Current anchor content always registers with OverlayRoot, while sheet content always uses the sheet overlay path.
• content.alignOffset is currently accepted but not applied.

Content settings

The content prop is used only by presentation="anchor".

Props

class is not currently applied to the sheet trigger or popover content. Use ui.content for the panel and style the default-slot child directly in sheet mode.

Emits

Core interactOutside, pointerDownOutside, and escapeKeyDown events are not exposed by the kit wrapper.

Slots

Styling and theming

Override globally through appConfig.ui.popover or locally with ui.

The default content surface is a white, vertically scrollable panel constrained to the viewport, with a neutral border, medium radius, and shared floating-surface shadow. Sheet mode additionally receives the core sheet's fixed bottom positioning and rounded top corners. Anchor mode receives alignment and padding as concrete inline styles calculated from the trigger rectangle.

Accessibility

The built-in trigger is exposed as a native button and announces collapsed or expanded. The content is exposed as a dialog container with exclusive accessibility focus in both presentation modes. The sheet and anchored overlay keep their children individually reachable.

Give icon-only trigger content an accessibility-label. Add a visible heading near the start of the content, and provide an explicit close action whenever outside or drag dismissal is disabled. A custom anchor slot is not automatically given button semantics; its interactive child must provide them.

Lynx currently has no DOM-style focus scope or programmatic focus restoration. The core uses native exclusive-focus semantics instead. The modal and non-modal anchor variants are structurally separate, but scroll locking and hiding background siblings are currently no-ops on Lynx.

Platform notes

• Sheet mode uses native Lynx touch handling, snap physics, dynamic viewport units, and main-thread drag painting.
• Anchor mode measures the trigger at runtime and applies concrete edge padding to a full-screen overlay wrapper; it does not use Floating UI.
• If the trigger cannot be measured, anchored content remains hidden until a non-zero layout rectangle is available.
• Taps inside content stop propagation so they do not dismiss the overlay. Outside interaction is represented by a backdrop tap.
• Hardware Escape-key dismissal is not currently wired because Lynx does not expose the required key event path.
• PopoverPortal is a slot pass-through; actual native portalling is handled by the shared OverlayRoot registry.
• PopoverAnchor from @vyui/core is a compatibility pass-through and does not position content. The kit anchor slot instead measures its wrapper.

Related components

• ActionSheet for a bottom sheet containing a list of actions.
• DropdownMenu for a structured anchored action menu.
• Drawer for larger persistent or multi-step content.
• The @vyui/core Popover primitives for preventable outside-interaction events and custom composition.