From 16c52d46e99be6985904da8e2dc232580d79498c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Reinhold / reini <reini@kadenpartner.ch>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:06:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Hang a searchable choice's list as wide as its field

The searchable choice put its `anchor-name` on a `<div>` around its
field, and menu.css sizes the popover list with
`anchor-size(width)`. The wrapper fills its container, but from
`medium` the field inside it stops at 40rem, so in a wider pane the
list ran past the field's end across the whole container: 1168px under
a 640px field. Found while giving the choice `full`, which only hid it.

The field itself carries the anchor now and the wrapper is gone, so the
list is as wide as the field, bounded or `full`, and still hangs under
the field's supporting text as before.

A browser test opens a bounded and a `full` searchable choice in a
1200px column and compares each list's width and start with its field;
it fails without the change in Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 UPGRADE.md                                   |  4 ++
 resources/views/components/choices.blade.php | 71 ++++++++++----------
 tests/Browser/PickingTest.php                | 41 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/UPGRADE.md b/UPGRADE.md
index bb533e54..d9c7e321 100644
--- a/UPGRADE.md
+++ b/UPGRADE.md
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
   card. `<x-choices>`' chips have no bound and take `full` without a change, so a call site can
   switch `searchable` on and off. A width rule an application wrote around one of them for this
   can go.
+- **A searchable `<x-choices>`' list is as wide as its field.** It was anchored to a wrapper
+  around the field, which fills its container, so from `medium`, where the field stops at 40rem,
+  the list ran on past the field's end across the whole container. The field itself is the anchor
+  now, and the wrapper `<div>` is gone; the list keeps hanging under the field's supporting text.
 
 ## From 2.0.0 to 2.1.0
 
diff --git a/resources/views/components/choices.blade.php b/resources/views/components/choices.blade.php
index caa0085e..739b6734 100644
--- a/resources/views/components/choices.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/components/choices.blade.php
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
        and End go to the ends of the open list (with it closed they are the field's own and move the
        caret), Enter chooses, Escape puts the field back — WAI-ARIA's combobox keyboard, since M3
        has no combobox. One value only. The list is a popover in the top
-       layer, placed by CSS anchor positioning, so a card's clipping never cuts it off. `icon`,
+       layer, placed by CSS anchor positioning on the field itself, so a card's clipping never cuts
+       it off and it is as wide as the field, 40rem bound and all. `icon`,
        `variant` and `placeholder` are the field's, and `full` takes the 40rem bound off the field
        as it does off every field. Chips have no such bound, so they take `full` and change nothing.
 
@@ -135,42 +136,40 @@
         }"
         @if ($model === null) x-modelable="value" @endif
     >
-        <div style="anchor-name: {{ $anchor }}">
-            <x-livewire-material::field :$id :$label :$hint :$messages :$icon :$variant :$full>
-                <input
-                    id="{{ $id }}"
-                    type="text"
-                    role="combobox"
-                    autocomplete="off"
-                    aria-autocomplete="list"
-                    aria-controls="{{ $id }}-list"
-                    aria-expanded="false"
-                    x-bind:aria-expanded="open.toString()"
-                    x-bind:aria-activedescendant="open && filtered[active] ? '{{ $id }}-option-' + active : null"
-                    @if ($messages !== []) aria-invalid="true" @endif
-                    @if ($messages !== [] || filled($hint)) aria-describedby="{{ $id }}-support" @endif
-                    placeholder="{{ filled($placeholder) ? $placeholder : ' ' }}"
-                    data-md-field-control
-                    x-model="query"
-                    x-on:focus="show(); $nextTick(() => $el.select())"
-                    x-on:pointerdown="selecting = document.activeElement !== $el"
-                    x-on:click="if (selecting) { $el.select(); selecting = false; } if (! open) show();"
-                    x-on:input="open = true; active = 0"
-                    x-on:keydown.arrow-down.prevent="move(1)"
-                    x-on:keydown.arrow-up.prevent="move(-1)"
-                    x-on:keydown.home="jump($event, false)"
-                    x-on:keydown.end="jump($event, true)"
-                    x-on:keydown.enter.prevent="choose(filtered[active])"
-                    x-on:keydown.escape="if (open) $event.preventDefault(); close()"
-                    x-on:keydown.tab="close()"
-                    x-on:blur="close()"
-                />
+        <x-livewire-material::field :$id :$label :$hint :$messages :$icon :$variant :$full style="anchor-name: {{ $anchor }}">
+            <input
+                id="{{ $id }}"
+                type="text"
+                role="combobox"
+                autocomplete="off"
+                aria-autocomplete="list"
+                aria-controls="{{ $id }}-list"
+                aria-expanded="false"
+                x-bind:aria-expanded="open.toString()"
+                x-bind:aria-activedescendant="open && filtered[active] ? '{{ $id }}-option-' + active : null"
+                @if ($messages !== []) aria-invalid="true" @endif
+                @if ($messages !== [] || filled($hint)) aria-describedby="{{ $id }}-support" @endif
+                placeholder="{{ filled($placeholder) ? $placeholder : ' ' }}"
+                data-md-field-control
+                x-model="query"
+                x-on:focus="show(); $nextTick(() => $el.select())"
+                x-on:pointerdown="selecting = document.activeElement !== $el"
+                x-on:click="if (selecting) { $el.select(); selecting = false; } if (! open) show();"
+                x-on:input="open = true; active = 0"
+                x-on:keydown.arrow-down.prevent="move(1)"
+                x-on:keydown.arrow-up.prevent="move(-1)"
+                x-on:keydown.home="jump($event, false)"
+                x-on:keydown.end="jump($event, true)"
+                x-on:keydown.enter.prevent="choose(filtered[active])"
+                x-on:keydown.escape="if (open) $event.preventDefault(); close()"
+                x-on:keydown.tab="close()"
+                x-on:blur="close()"
+            />
 
-                <x-slot:trailing>
-                    <x-livewire-material::icon name="arrow_drop_down" data-md-field-trailing data-md-field-arrow />
-                </x-slot:trailing>
-            </x-livewire-material::field>
-        </div>
+            <x-slot:trailing>
+                <x-livewire-material::icon name="arrow_drop_down" data-md-field-trailing data-md-field-arrow />
+            </x-slot:trailing>
+        </x-livewire-material::field>
 
         <ul
             id="{{ $id }}-list"
diff --git a/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php b/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php
index 1eec3edb..473bb45f 100644
--- a/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php
+++ b/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php
@@ -133,6 +133,47 @@ it('opens a searchable choice\'s list above a container that clips', function ()
             JS);
 });
 
+it('hangs a searchable choice\'s list under its field and as wide, bounded at 40rem or full', function () {
+    Route::middleware('web')->get('/wide-choices-probe', fn () => Blade::render(<<<'BLADE'
+        <!DOCTYPE html>
+        <html>
+            <head>
+                <x-theme-script />
+                @vite(config('livewire-material.showcase.vite'))
+                @livewireStyles
+            </head>
+            <body style="background-color: var(--md-sys-color-surface);">
+                <div style="display: grid; width: 1200px; gap: var(--md-sys-measurement-space300); padding: var(--md-sys-measurement-space200);">
+                    <x-choices id="bounded-zone" label="Time zone" searchable :options="[['id' => 'Europe/Berlin', 'name' => 'Berlin'], ['id' => 'Europe/Zurich', 'name' => 'Zurich']]" />
+                    <x-choices id="full-zone" label="Time zone" searchable full :options="[['id' => 'Europe/Berlin', 'name' => 'Berlin'], ['id' => 'Europe/Zurich', 'name' => 'Zurich']]" />
+                    <div style="height: 320px"></div>
+                </div>
+                @livewireScripts
+            </body>
+        </html>
+        BLADE));
+
+    // [the field's width, the list's width, the list's start against the field's].
+    $placed = fn (string $id): string => "(() => {
+        const field = document.querySelector('[data-md-field]:has(#{$id})').getBoundingClientRect();
+        const list = document.getElementById('{$id}-list').getBoundingClientRect();
+
+        return [Math.round(field.width), Math.round(list.width), Math.round(list.left - field.left)];
+    })()";
+
+    $page = visit('/wide-choices-probe')->resize(1280, 800)->waitForEvent('networkidle')
+        ->assertScript("document.readyState === 'complete' && typeof window.Alpine !== 'undefined'");
+
+    $page->click('#bounded-zone')->assertScript("document.getElementById('bounded-zone-list').matches(':popover-open')");
+
+    expect($page->script($placed('bounded-zone')))->toBe([640, 640, 0]);
+
+    $page->keys('#bounded-zone', 'Escape')->assertScript("! document.getElementById('bounded-zone-list').matches(':popover-open')");
+    $page->click('#full-zone')->assertScript("document.getElementById('full-zone-list').matches(':popover-open')");
+
+    expect($page->script($placed('full-zone')))->toBe([1168, 1168, 0]);
+});
+
 it('opens the search view with the results Livewire renders for the query', function () {
     $view = "document.querySelector('#find-view')";