Hi, We received reports from several users that they were unable to perform certain key actions in our app. After some testing, we found out that s-modal is intermittently displaying an overlay on open that prevents any interaction with it I’ve tested on a clean app using this code and can replic…

Hi @nunof It does look like this is a bug on our side - we are working on fix for this currently.

Thanks @Liam-Shopify ! If you could let me know once it’s sorted, I would appreciate it.

Hi folks - we shipped an update for this recently, so this should be resolved now. Please let us know if you’re still seeing this issue?

@Liam-Shopify The issue has not been resolved yet. I am still facing the same problem. Please check and provide an update.

Thanks @Liam-Shopify . I wasn’t able to replicate it again yet, but this was intermittent, so I will keep an eye on it anyway.

Hi @Liam-Shopify The issue still exists unfortunately. [image]

@Liam-Shopify , I was also also able to replicate it again.

Hey folks - we shipped an update for this, can you check and let us know if you’re still seeing this issue?

[Screen Shot 2026-03-30 at 3.06.48 PM] Still modal is not working with direction: rtl [ CSS property ]. modal major part is covered by left side menubar. as you can see in above screenshot.

This is a different issue; please open a new Topic, and also provide a way to reproduce it. Something like a codepen example would be great.

S-modal broken overlay

Polaris

Anthony_Frehner April 29, 2026, 8:03pm 13

We just did a release – let me know if you still see this or not. April 29, 2026 Updates to the Admin Polaris Library

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S-modal broken overlay

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