fix(context-menu): position anchor in a way which escape containers COMPASS-9673

[kraenhansen]

Description

When embedded as the data-explorer, the right click menu is rendered inside a container with position: relative;.
When the context menu anchor is positioned absolute, it will be relative to that container.

Merging this PR will:

• Update the anchor to be positioned "fixed":

  If the position property is fixed, the containing block is established by the viewport (in the case of continuous media) or the page area (in the case of paged media).

I tested this locally by modifying the compass-web sandbox to reproduce the bug and update the code to fix it.
I pushes a commit with the change I did to the sandbox and verified using the "compass-web" sandbox as well as "compass".

Checklist

• New tests and/or benchmarks are included
• Documentation is changed or added
• If this change updates the UI, screenshots/videos are added and a design review is requested
• I have signed the MongoDB Contributor License Agreement (https://www.mongodb.com/legal/contributor-agreement)

Motivation and Context

• Bugfix
• New feature
• Dependency update
• Misc

Open Questions

Dependents

Types of changes

• Backport Needed
• Patch (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Minor (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Major (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR fixes a positioning issue in the context menu component when it's embedded within containers that have position: relative. The fix changes the anchor positioning from absolute to fixed to ensure the context menu is positioned relative to the viewport rather than the containing element.

• Changes context menu anchor positioning from absolute to fixed

[gribnoysup]

I tested this locally by modifying the compass-web sandbox to reproduce the bug and update the code to fix it.

I think we discussed this on the standup, do you mind commiting this code also so that we have an environment that's a bit closer to mms?

[kraenhansen]

Using position absolute and having an offset in every direction ensures any position: relative; contained will resolve its position relative to this with the offset, triggering the original issue.

[kraenhansen]

Drive-by to have the comment say something about, why we're actually doing this.

[kraenhansen]

The actual fix for the original bug.

[kraenhansen]

This container is not just a part of the provider from the compass-context-menu package, because we need access to the css helper, which would introduce a circular dependency.

[gribnoysup]

This probably should be display: contents so that it doesn't create its own box and allows parent and children to keep their styles without the need to account for this extra element (we do something pretty similar here).

Also if this belongs to the context-menu rather than to compass-components, it should probably stay there, you can inline styles with a style property to avoid the dependency, although ContextMenuProviderBase being configurable like that also looks good to me. I would rather pass the ref directly maybe, this seems to be a more common pattern that I see in these cases, but no strong preference for that, local state keeping the value around is also okay.

[kraenhansen]

This probably should be display: contents

Great idea - thanks for pointing to that.

if this belongs to the context-menu rather than to compass-components, it should probably stay there

This was mostly to avoid inline styling, so I agree this could live in the context menu package, when it's just a display: contents.

[kraenhansen]

For some reason, this test is failing:

compass/packages/compass-components/src/components/workspace-tabs/tab.spec.tsx

Lines 94 to 98 in 8f183d0

	it('should render the close tab button hidden', async function () {
	expect(
	getComputedStyle(await screen.findByLabelText('Close Tab'))
	).to.have.property('display', 'none');
	});

It doesn't fail when I run it in isolation (using .only) and there's not difference in the DOM tree when I add a screen.debug() as the first line of that test, between running all test (and failing) and with only (and succeeding).

Also tried changing this to (without luck - still failing when all tests are ran):

const element = await screen.findByLabelText('Close Tab');
expect(element).to.not.be.visible;