diff --git a/resources/css/components/drawer.css b/resources/css/components/drawer.css
index 4795bf53..6fb1f3b1 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/drawer.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/drawer.css
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@
             display: none;
         }
 
+        /* Until the view settles (`data-md-drawer-settled`, two frames after Alpine starts), the
+           state the page loads with is drawn at once: a sheet that starts open does not grow in. */
+        [data-md-drawer][data-md-standard]:not([data-md-drawer-settled]),
+        [data-md-drawer][data-md-standard]:not([data-md-drawer-settled]) > [data-md-drawer-sheet] {
+            transition: none;
+        }
+
         [data-md-drawer][data-md-standard] > [data-md-drawer-scrim] {
             display: none;
         }
diff --git a/resources/views/components/drawer.blade.php b/resources/views/components/drawer.blade.php
index 04d44c34..043aea01 100644
--- a/resources/views/components/drawer.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/components/drawer.blade.php
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@
      waits for that exit (`closing`, `settle()`) instead of cutting it off on its first frame. It
      binds `collapsed`, which only `settle()` and the window's width write: a binding that read
      `open` itself would run before `settle()` in the same flush and, already queued, not run again
-     once `closing` changed.
+     once `closing` changed. Nothing moves while the page loads: `data-md-drawer-settled` comes two
+     frames after the state Alpine starts with, and the standard sheet has no transitions until
+     then, so a sheet that starts open stands open rather than growing in.
 
      For the second pane of a list-detail layout use `<x-list-detail>` instead (step 35's canonical
      layout); the two are not the same thing — a pane shows what the list beside it selected, a
@@ -85,6 +87,7 @@
     x-data="{
         @if ($model !== null) open: @entangle($attributes->wire('model')).live, @endif
         wide: false,
+        settled: false,
         collapsed: false,
         closing: false,
         closings: 0,
@@ -93,9 +96,17 @@
         settle(open) {
             open = Boolean(open);
 
-            if (this.wasOpen === null || open === this.wasOpen) {
+            if (this.wasOpen === null) {
                 this.wasOpen = open;
 
+                // The state Alpine starts with is drawn, not animated: two frames on, once it has
+                // been painted, the sheet may move.
+                requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(() => this.settled = true));
+
+                return;
+            }
+
+            if (open === this.wasOpen) {
                 return;
             }
 
@@ -141,6 +152,7 @@
     @if ($closeOnEscape) x-on:keydown.window.escape="if (open && ! wide) close()" @endif
     x-bind:data-md-open="open ? '' : null"
     x-bind:data-md-drawer-collapsed="collapsed ? '' : null"
+    x-bind:data-md-drawer-settled="settled ? '' : null"
     x-effect="settle(open)"
     data-md-drawer
     @if ($standard) data-md-standard @endif
diff --git a/tests/Browser/ContainmentTest.php b/tests/Browser/ContainmentTest.php
index c9256538..cbe7ed27 100644
--- a/tests/Browser/ContainmentTest.php
+++ b/tests/Browser/ContainmentTest.php
@@ -515,8 +515,8 @@ it('gives a closing standard side sheet\'s room back to the content beside it as
     $column = "{$root}.previousElementSibling";
     $toggle = "Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('#containment button')).find((button) => button.textContent.trim() === 'Show or hide the filters')";
 
-    // The example starts open, and grows in once Alpine opens it: its entry has run when the sheet
-    // stands at its full 400px and fully shown, with nothing on it still animating.
+    // The example starts open, and stands open from the first frame Alpine draws: full 400px, fully
+    // shown, nothing on it animating.
     $page = containment()->resize(1000, 800)
         ->assertScript("{$root}.hasAttribute('data-md-open') && Math.round({$root}.getBoundingClientRect().width) === 400 && getComputedStyle({$sheet}).opacity === '1' && {$root}.getAnimations({ subtree: true }).length === 0");
 
@@ -565,6 +565,42 @@ it('gives a closing standard side sheet\'s room back to the content beside it as
         ->assertScript("{$root}.hasAttribute('data-md-open') && ! {$root}.hasAttribute('data-md-drawer-collapsed') && Math.abs({$root}.getBoundingClientRect().width - 400) < 1 && getComputedStyle({$sheet}).opacity === '1'");
 });
 
+it('draws a standard side sheet that starts open standing open, without growing it in on load', function () {
+    // Slow tokens, so a load-time entry would still be running when the page is first read.
+    Route::middleware('web')->get('/standard-sheet-load-probe', fn () => Blade::render(<<<'BLADE'
+        <!DOCTYPE html>
+        <html>
+            <head>
+                <x-theme-script />
+                @vite(config('livewire-material.showcase.vite'))
+                @livewireStyles
+                <style>:root { --md-sys-motion-spatial-default-duration: 3000ms; --md-sys-motion-effects-default-duration: 3000ms; }</style>
+            </head>
+            <body>
+                <x-row align="stretch" gap="space300" x-data="{ open: true }">
+                    <x-stack style="flex: 1 1 0%; min-width: 0;">
+                        <button type="button" id="toggle-sheet" x-on:click="open = ! open">Show or hide the filters</button>
+                    </x-stack>
+                    <x-drawer standard title="Filters">Filter the list</x-drawer>
+                </x-row>
+                @livewireScripts
+            </body>
+        </html>
+        BLADE));
+
+    $root = "document.querySelector('[data-md-drawer]')";
+
+    $page = visit('/standard-sheet-load-probe')->resize(1000, 800)->waitForEvent('networkidle')
+        ->assertScript("typeof window.Alpine !== 'undefined' && {$root}.hasAttribute('data-md-drawer-settled')")
+        ->assertScript("{$root}.hasAttribute('data-md-open') && Math.abs({$root}.getBoundingClientRect().width - 400) < 1")
+        ->assertScript("{$root}.getAnimations({ subtree: true }).length === 0")
+        ->assertScript("getComputedStyle({$root}.querySelector('[data-md-drawer-sheet]')).opacity === '1'");
+
+    // Settled, it still moves when someone closes it.
+    $page->script("document.getElementById('toggle-sheet').click()");
+    $page->assertScript("{$root}.getAnimations({ subtree: true }).length > 0");
+});
+
 it('opens a row\'s opener from a press anywhere on the row, but not from its own buttons', function () {
     $page = containment();