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Two defects in how limel-popover treats the trigger element it is handed, and the same accessibility fix in limel-menu, which carries a copy of the same code. No new behaviour; nothing here is specific to the component that turned them up.

The document click listener was never removed

The listener is added with { capture: true } and was removed without it. removeEventListener only matches a listener registered with the same capture flag, so the removal never matched and the listener stayed on document for the life of the page.

Nothing misbehaved, because the handler checks open before acting — but every popover that had ever been opened kept a capturing document listener, and that listener holds its host, so a popover removed from the page could not be collected.

The popover also had no disconnectedCallback, so one removed while still open went on listening. Setup now runs on connect and teardown on disconnect, and both use the same capture flag.

aria-expanded disappeared instead of saying false

setTriggerAttributes wrote the attribute when open and removed it when closed. A closed trigger therefore read as an ordinary button: nothing announced that there was anything to open, and closing it announced nothing at all. It is now written in both states, which is what the attribute is for.

Why limel-menu is in here too

limel-menu has its own copy of the same four lines. Fixing only the popover would have left the two writing different DOM onto a consumer-supplied trigger — a closed popover trigger reading aria-expanded="false" while a closed menu trigger had no attribute at all — so a consumer with one selector or one test covering both would have had to handle two shapes. The menu keeps the remove-when-false path for disabled, because there the presence of the attribute is what disables the element.

What changes for consumers

The one visible change is that closed triggers now carry aria-expanded="false" where they previously carried nothing. I checked every aria-expanded selector in lime-elements, lime-crm-components and lime-crm-building-blocks: they are all either [aria-expanded='true'], [aria-expanded]:not([aria-expanded='false']), or a :not([aria-expanded='true']) negation. None of them matches a bare [aria-expanded], so nothing restyles.

Testing

The full suite passes (2457 tests). These three commits add no tests of their own, so the two behaviours are not pinned: I can add a popover.e2e.tsx asserting that a closed trigger reads aria-expanded="false" and that removing an open popover leaves no capturing listener on document, if you would rather have that before this merges.


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  • Accessibility

    • Trigger elements now consistently expose aria-expanded, aria-haspopup, aria-controls, and appropriate roles.
    • Menu-managed disabled states are updated without overriding disabled settings applied directly to triggers.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Menus and popovers no longer respond to keyboard or outside-click interactions after being removed from the page.
    • Event listeners are properly cleaned up when components are disconnected.
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    • Added coverage for ARIA state changes, disabled attributes, hotkeys, outside clicks, and Escape-key behavior.

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Menu and popover global handlers now follow connection lifecycle callbacks and connection-state guards. Trigger ARIA attributes remain explicit when closed. Menu disabled handling preserves consumer-set disabled attributes. End-to-end tests cover these behaviors.

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Popover and trigger updates

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Menu handler and trigger state
src/components/menu/menu.tsx, src/components/menu/menu.e2e.tsx
Menu keydown handling now registers only when the host is connected and open. Trigger attributes are assigned explicitly. Menu-owned disabled attributes are removed without removing consumer-set attributes.
Popover handler and trigger state
src/components/popover/popover.tsx, src/components/popover/popover.e2e.tsx
Popover handlers now initialize and tear down through connection lifecycle callbacks. Closed or disconnected popovers remove document listeners. Triggers retain aria-expanded="false" when closed. Tests cover listener cleanup and attribute changes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b106d

This change improves popover and menu listener lifecycle handling and preserves consumer-set disabled attributes on menu triggers, without introducing new defects in the reviewed logic. One test case should be strengthened to actually toggle the menu's disabled state while a consumer-owned disabled attribute is present, ensuring the intended protection is verified end-to-end; this is a low-risk follow-up rather than a merge blocker.

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`removeEventListener` only matches a listener registered with the same
capture flag. The click listener was added with `capture: true` and
removed without it, so it stayed on `document` for the life of the
page. Nothing misbehaved while the popover was alive, because the
handler checks `open` before acting, but the listener held on to a
detached popover and everything it referenced.

The popover also had no `disconnectedCallback`, so one removed while
open went on listening. Setup now runs on connect and teardown on
disconnect, which also restores the listeners if the element is moved
in the DOM.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`aria-expanded` was removed from the trigger whenever the popover was
closed, so it read as an ordinary button: nothing announced that there
was something to open, and closing it announced nothing at all. It is
now written in both states, which is what the attribute is for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`aria-expanded` was removed from the trigger whenever the menu was
closed, so it read as an ordinary button: nothing announced that there
was a menu to open, and closing it announced nothing at all. It is now
written in both states, as `limel-popover` already does, so a consumer
supplying a trigger to either gets the same DOM back.

`disabled` keeps the remove-when-false path, because there the presence
of the attribute is what disables the element.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🤖 AI-generated review from 7 parallel agents at commit b106da78d. Treat as input, not a verdict — agents can be wrong or miss context. Nothing in the PR has been changed by this review.

🔄 Updated review. The previous review was at 4b0a3d12d. ✅ Fixed = resolved since then; 🆕 New = flagged for the first time.

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PR Summary

Review tier: Lite — 84 changed lines across 2 files after noise filtering, reviewed as a delta on top of 4b0a3d12d. The PR fixes two defects in how limel-popover treats the trigger it is handed — aria-expanded is now written as "false" when closed instead of being removed, and the document listeners are taken down with the same capture flag they went up with — and applies the same fixes to limel-menu, which carries a copy of the code. The full PR is 5 commits, 4 files, +275/−60; this round covers the newest commit, which gives the menu the popover's setup/teardown pair plus an isConnected guard, and one test for it (+60/−24 across menu.tsx and menu.e2e.tsx).

Merge Readiness — MERGE WITH CAVEATS ⚠️

The PR is clearly better than main, and the one Medium carried into this round from Architecture is now fixed: the menu no longer arms a capturing document keydown listener on an instance that has left the page, and a test pins it. What remains is a single missing test, unchanged since the last review — the guard that stops the menu re-enabling a button the consumer disabled is still only exercised in the cases where it does nothing.

  • Blockers: None
  • Non-blocking but worth addressing: see Top Recommendations at the end.

Dimensions

Short summaries. Each issue points to a numbered Top Recommendation below.

1. Backward Compatibility — GOOD ✅

Nothing in the delta touches the public surface; the one observable DOM difference is still the stated point of the PR.

What works well: No prop, event, method or slot changed — setupGlobalHandlers and teardownGlobalHandlers are private, and for a normally connected menu the new path behaves exactly as the old one did. A reviewer independently re-ran the check the PR description claims: every aria-expanded selector in this repo guards on [aria-expanded='true'] or excludes 'false', so nothing restyles when closed triggers gain the attribute. The only behaviour change is that a menu whose open watcher fires after removal no longer arms a listener it cannot take down — a leak fix, not something a caller could depend on.

Issues: None.

Minor nits:

  • 🔵 A closed trigger's aria-expanded is now the string "false", which is truthy, so any JS testing it with getAttribute or hasAttribute would flip to always reporting "expanded" (src/components/popover/popover.tsx:234, src/components/menu/menu.tsx:862). No such read exists in lime-elements, lime-crm-components or lime-crm-building-blocks — the PR description's audit covered CSS selectors only, so the residual risk is external integrators.

2. Code Quality — NEEDS ATTENTION ⚠️

The new listener test targets exactly the bug the commit fixes, but the disabled guard from the previous commit is still untested in the one case it exists for.

Issues:

  • 🟡 [Medium] No test puts the menu and its trigger in conflict over disabled (src/components/menu/menu.e2e.tsx:105-171). Each existing test has a single, unambiguous owner, so deleting the hasAttribute guard would keep the suite green. See Top Recommendation 1 below.

What works well: The duplicated add/remove-listener logic that lived in connectedCallback, disconnectedCallback and openWatcher is collapsed into one named pair (menu.tsx:291-329), so the capture flag is written once and the two sides cannot drift; the comment about Stencil firing @Watch after disconnect is adapted to the menu's actual consequence rather than copy-pasted from the popover's wording; the new test would fail against the pre-fix code.

Minor nits:

  • 🔵 The four trigger attributes are still hand-written in both components and could live in a shared util next to src/util/focus-trigger-element.ts, which both already use (src/components/menu/menu.tsx:855-864, src/components/popover/popover.tsx:230-237).
  • 🔵 The popover's reconnection-guard test only dispatches a click, so a regression that re-arms just the keydown listener on a detached, reopened popover would go uncaught (src/components/popover/popover.e2e.tsx:133-155).
  • 🆕 New: The menu has no test for plain teardown — removing an open menu with no later open change — although the popover carries that case as its own test (src/components/menu/menu.e2e.tsx:580-612 versus src/components/popover/popover.e2e.tsx:111-131).

3. Architecture — GOOD ✅

The menu now has the popover's shape: one reconcile function behind connect, disconnect and the open watcher, with the same connectedness guard.

What works well: Funnelling all three entry points through one function means the arm and disarm sides cannot drift apart, which is the class of bug this PR is fixing; the isConnected half of the guard is now pinned by a test rather than only described in a comment; the shape matches what limel-portal asks of components whose nodes it moves, so a relocated menu re-arms instead of going deaf.

Issues:

  • The menu's listener setup now checks the host is still in the page — fixed. See Top Recommendation 2.

Minor nits:

  • 🔵 triggersDisabledByMenu records ownership only at the moment the menu adds disabled and never re-checks, so if the consumer also disables that trigger afterwards and menu.disabled goes back to false, the menu removes the attribute anyway (src/components/menu/menu.tsx:874-888).
  • 🔵 The trigger gets aria-controls="<portalId>" on every render, while limel-portal only creates the element carrying that id once it becomes visible, so a never-opened trigger points at an id that is not in the document (src/components/popover/popover.tsx:235, src/components/menu/menu.tsx:857).
  • 🆕 New: The new guard stops the listener being armed on a detached menu, but the line below it still calls setFocus() when open flips to true on that same detached instance, leaving a stray timeout and IntersectionObserver on nodes outside the document (src/components/menu/menu.tsx:299-308).
  • 🆕 New: The reconcile-against-open-and-isConnected pattern now exists as two near-identical copies with different spellings of the capture flag, and only the popover's carries the comment explaining why the flag must be repeated on removal (src/components/menu/menu.tsx:310-329, src/components/popover/popover.tsx:125-152).

4. Security — GOOD ✅

No new exposure; the delta removes one.

What works well: The isConnected guard stops an open-but-removed menu keeping a capture-phase keydown listener on document, so a detached component can no longer see or swallow keystrokes anywhere on the page, and teardown passes the same capture flag as setup so the removal actually matches.

Issues: None.

5. Observability — GOOD ✅

Nothing to log here, and the new comment captures reasoning that would otherwise have to be rediscovered.

What works well: setupGlobalHandlers explains exactly why a detached instance must not attach a listener, which is the context a future debugger needs for this class of leak, and the new lifecycle fails safe — any state that does not warrant a listener tears one down rather than leaving it attached.

Issues: None.

6. Performance — GOOD ✅

A small net improvement, with no new work on a hot path.

What works well: A menu removed while closed and flipped to open afterwards no longer re-attaches a document keydown listener that would hold the detached host alive; handleDocumentKeyDown stays a single stable reference, so repeated add/remove calls cannot accumulate duplicates; setup and teardown run only on connect, disconnect and open changes, not per render.

Issues: None.


Top Recommendations

These are suggestions for the author. Nothing has been applied.

  1. 🟡 [Medium from Code Quality] — Test the case where the menu and the consumer both want the trigger disabled
    Introduced by this PR · small fix · belongs in this PR.

    • Where: src/components/menu/menu.tsx:874-888 (setTriggerDisabled), tests at src/components/menu/menu.e2e.tsx:105-171
    • What: Add a test that renders <limel-menu disabled={true}> around <button slot="trigger" disabled={true}>, calls setProps({ disabled: false }) on the menu, and asserts the trigger still has disabled.
    • Why: The existing tests each have one unambiguous owner, so removing the if (!element.hasAttribute('disabled')) guard — the menu then claiming every disabled trigger as its own — passes all of them, and the consumer's button is silently re-enabled the first time the menu toggles back to enabled. That is exactly the bug commit 4b0a3d12d was written to prevent.
  2. ✅ Fixed — Give the menu the same connection check the popover just got

    See what was originally recommended

    Pre-existing · small fix · belongs in this PR — the PR touches this file and adds exactly this guard to the popover's twin.

    • Where: src/components/menu/menu.tsx:309-326 (openWatcher)
    • What: Only add the document keydown listener when this.host.isConnected as well as open — ideally by giving the menu the popover's shape, one setup/teardown pair called from connectedCallback, disconnectedCallback and the watcher, instead of adding and removing inline.
    • Why: Stencil keeps firing @Watch on a detached instance, so a consumer setting open = true on a menu they have already removed puts a capturing document listener back with no disconnectedCallback left to take it off; it holds the menu instance alive, and a hotkey press then runs selection on a component that is no longer in the page.

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it('leaves a `disabled` attribute the trigger set itself alone', async () => {
const { root, waitForChanges } = await render(
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<button slot="trigger" disabled={true}>
My Label
</button>
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'button[slot="trigger"]'
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Test consumer-owned disabled state across the menu toggle. The consumer-owned trigger is reachable through the menu’s trigger slot. setTriggerDisabled tracks only attributes added by the menu, so a consumer-owned attribute must remain after setProps({ disabled: false }). The existing toggle test covers only a menu-added attribute, while the consumer-owned test performs no toggle. Add the toggle and assert that the trigger still has disabled.

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`setTriggerAttributes` cleared `disabled` from the slotted trigger on every render whenever the
menu itself was enabled, no matter who had put the attribute there. A consumer writing
`<limel-button disabled slot="trigger">` inside an enabled menu had it stripped, and because that
prop reflects, their button was silently re-enabled.

The menu now tracks the triggers it disabled itself, and only clears the attribute on those.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`openWatcher` added the capturing `keydown` listener whenever `open` turned true, without checking
that the host was still in the page. Stencil keeps firing `@Watch` on a detached instance, so a
consumer setting `open = true` on a menu they had already removed put the listener back with no
`disconnectedCallback` left to take it down. That kept the instance alive, and a hotkey press then
ran selection on a component that is no longer in the page.

Setup and teardown now go through one matched pair, the shape `limel-popover` already uses, instead
of three inline copies of the add and remove.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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