diff --git a/resources/css/components/search.css b/resources/css/components/search.css
index 51c8678d..56366c05 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/search.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/search.css
@@ -45,8 +45,10 @@
         position: relative;
     }
 
-    /* Full screen, through its exit too: the fixed view and bar stay above the page while they leave. */
-    [data-md-search]:is([data-md-open], [data-md-full-screen]) {
+    /* Above the page while open, and while the view leaves: full screen through `data-md-full-screen`,
+       docked through the `md-transition` class Alpine's `x-transition` carries for the length of the
+       view's exit, so later positioned content on the page never covers the fading view. */
+    [data-md-search]:is([data-md-open], [data-md-full-screen], :has(> [data-md-search-view].md-transition)) {
         z-index: 50;
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php b/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php
index 780ce7f5..1eec3edb 100644
--- a/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php
+++ b/tests/Browser/PickingTest.php
@@ -212,6 +212,19 @@ it('fades the docked search\'s scrim out on close, rather than making it vanish'
     $page->assertScript("getComputedStyle({$root}.querySelector('[data-md-search-scrim]')).display === 'none'");
 });
 
+it('keeps the docked search above the page while its view closes', function () {
+    $view = "document.querySelector('#find-view')";
+
+    $page = pickProbe()
+        ->click('#find')
+        ->assertScript("getComputedStyle({$view}).display !== 'none' && getComputedStyle({$view}).opacity === '1'");
+
+    // The view caught part-way through its fade only counts while the root is still at z-index 50.
+    expect($page->script(searchCloseSample('[data-md-search-view]', "getComputedStyle(root).zIndex === '50' ? parseFloat(getComputedStyle(element).opacity) : 0")))->toBeTrue();
+
+    $page->assertScript("getComputedStyle({$view}).display === 'none' && getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('[data-md-search]:has(#find)')).zIndex !== '50'");
+});
+
 it('closes the docked search view back into its bar, rather than making it vanish', function () {
     $view = "document.querySelector('#find-view')";