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💡 What is the current behavior?

If an application sub-menu contains enough items to create a scroll, the scroll is only visible when the user is on a page that is in that sub-menu. If the user is on a page that is NOT inside the long sub-menu, and then hovers on the main nav menu item that contains the sub-menu, then the sub-menu scroll is not visible and items in the sub-menu are not clickable

GitHub Issue Number: #2664

🆕 What is the new behavior?

Fix the bug by setting showDropdown to true before the dropdown children and scroll are calculated

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Menu category dropdowns now open reliably and display all items correctly.
    • Long dropdown menus are scrollable, including when no category item is active, keeping the final item accessible.
    • Selecting an item from a long dropdown now closes the menu as expected.
    • Expanded menus no longer clip oversized content or leave unnecessary size constraints behind.
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    • Added regression coverage for large dropdowns, scrolling, item visibility, and selection behavior.

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The menu category now clears residual container styles after fade-in and during collapse. A regression test covers expansion of 20 oversized items. A patch changeset documents the dropdown scrolling fix.

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Menu category dropdown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dropdown style cleanup
packages/core/src/components/menu-category/menu-category.tsx
Fade-in completion clears residual menu item container styles. Menu collapse calls the renamed cleanup helper before recalculating item visibility.
Scroll regression and release metadata
packages/core/src/components/menu-category/test/menu-category.ct.ts, .changeset/menu-category-dropdown-scroll.md
The regression test checks removal of inline max-height, final-item visibility, and overflow behavior for 20 oversized items. The changeset records the patch release.

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The PR fixes submenu scrolling when the current page is outside the submenu. A test still relies on a fixed 300 ms delay, which could cause occasional test flakiness but has no production impact; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Possibly related PRs

  • siemens/ix#2573: Both changes modify MenuCategory and its dropdown expansion tests.
  • siemens/ix#2612: Both changes modify menu-category.tsx animation and dropdown visibility handling.

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In `@packages/core/src/components/menu-category/test/menu-category.ct.ts`:
- Around line 587-595: Update the scrollability test around menuCategory to
exercise the interaction path: scroll the final non-parent menu item into the
dropdown’s visible area, click it, and assert that the dropdown closes. Retain
the overflow assertion, but replace the visibility-only check with assertions
that validate the user-facing selection behavior.
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Comment thread packages/core/src/components/menu-category/test/menu-category.ct.ts Outdated
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this.closeOtherCategories.emit(this.categoryId);

this.showDropdown = true;

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Why set showDropdown = true before present()?
The real need is to clear hidden on slotted items before overflow is measured (onShowItemsChange). Setting show early can open the dropdown even if willPresent() / showChange was canceled. Can we unhide the items directly and keep showDropdown synced from showChanged?

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Good point, though on the flip side, it's not good to manually set hidden for all children without it being clear where or why that's happening and bypassing existing mechanisms for doing that.

I prefer implementing a separate flag, willShowItems, that signifies the intermediate period for preparing to show menu items, which is what this is, and connecting that to the existing logic for hiding the sub-menu items

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Please rename the PR title to conventional format: fix(core/menu-category): … (see .github/instructions/code-review.instructions.md).

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Consider to add Fixes #2664 to the changeset summary so the issue closes on release.

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Ensure sub-menu items are visible before dropdown presents to enable correct scrolling behavior when no category item is active. This addresses issue #2664.

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In `@packages/core/src/components/menu-category/test/menu-category.ct.ts`:
- Around line 614-622: In the menu category test, replace the fixed
page.waitForTimeout(300) delay with polling of menuItems.evaluate((el) =>
el.style.maxHeight) until it returns an empty string, then assert the
menu-items--expanded class and final inline maxHeight value.
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await page.waitForTimeout(300);

const menuItems = menuCategory.locator('.menu-items');
await expect(menuItems).toHaveClass(/menu-items--expanded/);

const inlineMaxHeight = await menuItems.evaluate(
(el) => el.style.maxHeight
);
expect(inlineMaxHeight).toBe('');

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Replace the arbitrary animation delay.

Line 614 uses page.waitForTimeout(300). Poll menuItems.evaluate((el) => el.style.maxHeight) until it returns '', then assert the expanded state.

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In `@packages/core/src/components/menu-category/test/menu-category.ct.ts` around
lines 614 - 622, In the menu category test, replace the fixed
page.waitForTimeout(300) delay with polling of menuItems.evaluate((el) =>
el.style.maxHeight) until it returns an empty string, then assert the
menu-items--expanded class and final inline maxHeight value.

Source: Coding guidelines

@alexkaduk alexkaduk changed the title fix scroll sub menu when current page is not in the current sub-menu … fix(core): prevent menu-category expand clipping tall items EIX-117 Aug 14, 2026
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@nuke-ellington nuke-ellington modified the milestones: 5.2.0, 6.0.0 Aug 14, 2026
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