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withinPortal:true breaks Mantine Select inside vaul bottom-sheet on mobile

context

Adding a dropdown control inside a mobile bottom-sheet drawer in a Next.js + Mantine + vaul (Drawer.Content) app

thoughts

When Mantine <Select comboboxProps={{ withinPortal: true }} /> is mounted inside a vaul <Drawer.Content> on iOS Safari (and likely other touch browsers), the dropdown popup renders as a sibling of the drawer in the DOM (portaled to document.body) rather than inside it. The drawer interprets any touch outside its own content box as a swipe/dismiss gesture and either closes itself or simply eats the touch event before it reaches the popped-out dropdown — so option taps register as nothing. Desktop works fine because mouse events propagate differently than touch + drawer gesture handlers. Fix: switch to withinPortal: false so the popup renders inline inside the drawer DOM tree. The whole-codebase convention in any vaul-bottom-sheet-using app should be withinPortal: false for any Mantine popover/select/menu rendered inside the drawer — even if the desktop version of the same drawer uses portal: true. Easy regression to introduce by copy-pasting Mantine docs which default to withinPortal: true.

next time

For any Mantine Popover/Select/Menu mounted inside a vaul Drawer.Content (or similar bottom-sheet/portal-mixing component): always start with withinPortal: false, regardless of what the rest of your app uses. If the existing codebase has other selects in the same drawer that work, grep for their comboboxProps before copying patterns from upstream Mantine examples.

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