@fusion.dev/helix-headless 0.145.0 → 0.147.0

package/dist/accordion/item/accordion-item.d.ts

@@ -13,15 +13,21 @@ declare const HelixHeadlessAccordionItem_base: (new (...args: any[]) => import("
  * accordion's, then 3.
  *
  * Content stays mounted when the item is closed, so it can animate and its text
- * is present in server-rendered HTML. Closed content has both `hidden` and
- * `inert`. `hidden` collapses it when no stylesheet is loaded. `inert` keeps it
- * out of the tab order and the accessibility tree after the styled tier's
- * `display` overrides `hidden`.
+ * is present in server-rendered HTML.
  *
- * Set `hidden-until-found` and the browser's find in page searches a closed
- * section too: a match opens it, with `helix-before-open` first, as React
- * Aria's disclosure does. The content is then `hidden="until-found"` while
- * closed, and not `inert`, since an inert region is never searched.
+ * The browser's find in page searches a closed section, and a match opens it,
+ * with `helix-before-open` first, as React Aria's disclosure does. Closed
+ * content is `hidden="until-found"`, which hides it with no stylesheet loaded
+ * and keeps it out of the tab order and the accessibility tree. A section
+ * that closes keeps its content drawn until the content part's animations and
+ * transitions end, so a sheet that animates the section closed shows the
+ * content shrinking rather than an empty box. Set `hidden-until-found="false"`
+ * and a closed section is `hidden` and `inert` instead, and find in page skips
+ * it.
+ *
+ * While it is open, the content part carries the content's height as
+ * `--accordion-content-height`, as Radix's accordion does, for a stylesheet
+ * that animates the section open with keyframes of its own.
  *
  * @since 0.1.0
  * @status stable
@@ -43,6 +49,8 @@ declare const HelixHeadlessAccordionItem_base: (new (...args: any[]) => import("
  * @csspart heading - The heading that holds the trigger.
  * @csspart trigger - The button that opens and closes the section, holding the summary.
  *
+ * @cssproperty --accordion-content-height - The height of the content, in pixels, written on the `content` part while the section is open.
+ *
  * @cssstate open - While the item is open.
  */
 export declare class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends HelixHeadlessAccordionItem_base {
@@ -91,12 +99,11 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends HelixHeadlessAccordionIt
      * Whether find in page searches the section while it is closed, and opens it
      * on a match.
      *
-     * Off by default. A closed section is then `hidden="until-found"`, which
-     * hides through `content-visibility`, so a stylesheet that animates the
-     * section closed shows an empty box for the length of that animation. The
-     * accordion's own `hidden-until-found` turns it on for every section.
+     * Unset takes the accordion's `hidden-until-found`, which is on. Write
+     * `hidden-until-found="false"` to keep find in page out of this section: a
+     * closed section is then `hidden` and `inert`.
      */
-    hiddenUntilFound: boolean;
+    hiddenUntilFound?: boolean;
     /**
      * A group name. Opening an item closes the other items with the same name,
      * as `<details name>` does.
@@ -120,6 +127,24 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends HelixHeadlessAccordionIt
     name?: string;
     /** Whether find in page searches this section while it is closed. */
     private get findable();
+    /**
+     * Whether the section has closed and its content is still drawn, until the
+     * content part's animations end.
+     *
+     * `hidden="until-found"` hides through `content-visibility`, which an
+     * author's `display` does not override, so writing it the moment the section
+     * closes empties the box a sheet is still shrinking. `inert` holds the
+     * content meanwhile.
+     */
+    private closing;
+    protected willUpdate(changed: PropertyValues): void;
+    /**
+     * Hides the content of a section that closed, once whatever animates the
+     * content part has finished. Nothing running, as under reduced motion or
+     * with no stylesheet, hides it at once. `getAnimations` brings the styles up
+     * to date first, so a transition the close starts is among them.
+     */
+    private finishClosing;
     /**
      * Opens the section find in page has matched in, before the match is shown.
      *
@@ -166,6 +191,12 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends HelixHeadlessAccordionIt
      * settle, once every item is there to compare.
      */
     protected updated(changed: PropertyValues): void;
+    /**
+     * Writes the content's height onto the content part while the section is
+     * open. `scrollHeight`, so a sheet that clips the box while it grows still
+     * reads the whole height.
+     */
+    private readonly measure;
     /**
      * Moves focus to this item's trigger.
      *
@@ -192,17 +223,19 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends HelixHeadlessAccordionIt
      * part outranks it and the transition runs exactly as before. Measured on
      * both tiers.
      *
-     * **`hidden="until-found"` only where it was asked for.** It hides through
+     * **`hidden="until-found"` unless it is turned off.** It hides through
      * `content-visibility` rather than `display`, which an author `display` does
-     * not override, so a section a sheet animates closed shows an empty box while
-     * it shrinks. `beforematch` sets `open`, so find in page never reveals text
-     * under a trigger that still reports collapsed.
+     * not override, so it is written only once the section's closing motion has
+     * ended (`closing`). `beforematch` sets `open`, so find in page never reveals
+     * text under a trigger that still reports collapsed.
      *
-     * `inert` stays, except under `until-found`. `hidden` answers the reader who
+     * `inert` only where `until-found` is not. `hidden` answers the reader who
      * can see and `inert` answers the one tabbing through, and wherever a sheet
      * overrides `display`, `inert` is the only one of the two still in force.
      * `content-visibility: hidden` keeps skipped content out of the tab order and
      * the accessibility tree by itself, and an inert region is never searched.
+     * It leaves the region's own box in the tree, so a closed findable section
+     * drops `role="region"` and its name until it opens.
      */
     protected render(): TemplateResult;
 }

package/dist/accordion/item/accordion-item.js

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ var __decorate = (this && this.__decorate) || function (decorators, target, key,
     else for (var i = decorators.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) if (d = decorators[i]) r = (c < 3 ? d(r) : c > 3 ? d(target, key, r) : d(target, key)) || r;
     return c > 3 && r && Object.defineProperty(target, key, r), r;
 };
-import { closestInstance, customElement, HelixElement, MixinControllerOpen, } from '@fusion.dev/helix-core';
+import { closestInstance, customElement, HelixElement, headingLevel, MixinControllerOpen, onUnlessFalse, } from '@fusion.dev/helix-core';
 import { caretDown } from '@fusion.dev/helix-icons';
 import { html, nothing } from 'lit';
-import { property } from 'lit/decorators.js';
+import { property, state } from 'lit/decorators.js';
 import { unsafeSVG } from 'lit/directives/unsafe-svg.js';
 import { HelixHeadlessAccordion } from '../root/accordion-root.js';
 const CONTENT_ID = 'content';
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ let HelixHeadlessAccordionItem = class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends MixinC
         super(...arguments);
         this.disabled = false;
         this.groupHeadingLevel = undefined;
-        this.groupHiddenUntilFound = false;
-        this.hiddenUntilFound = false;
+        this.groupHiddenUntilFound = true;
+        this.closing = false;
         this.handleBeforeMatch = (event) => {
             if (this.open || this.requestOpen(true)) {
                 return;
@@ -43,19 +43,42 @@ let HelixHeadlessAccordionItem = class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends MixinC
                 this.closePeers();
             }
         };
+        this.measure = () => {
+            const content = this.partNamed('content');
+            const inner = this.partNamed('content-inner');
+            if (!content || !inner || !this.open) {
+                return;
+            }
+            content.style.setProperty('--accordion-content-height', `${inner.scrollHeight}px`);
+        };
     }
     renderChevron() {
         if (this.chevronPlacement === 'none') {
             return nothing;
         }
-        return html `<slot name="chevron"
+        return html `<slot name="chevron" aria-hidden="true"
       ><svg part="chevron" fill="currentColor" viewBox=${caretDown.viewBox} aria-hidden="true">
         ${unsafeSVG(caretDown.content)}
       </svg></slot
     >`;
     }
     get findable() {
-        return this.hiddenUntilFound || this.groupHiddenUntilFound;
+        return this.hiddenUntilFound ?? this.groupHiddenUntilFound;
+    }
+    willUpdate(changed) {
+        super.willUpdate(changed);
+        if (changed.has('open')) {
+            this.closing = !this.open && changed.get('open') === true && this.findable;
+        }
+    }
+    finishClosing() {
+        const running = this.partNamed('content')?.getAnimations?.({ subtree: true }) ?? [];
+        const done = () => {
+            if (!this.open) {
+                this.closing = false;
+            }
+        };
+        Promise.all(running.map((animation) => animation.finished)).then(done, done);
     }
     get accordion() {
         return closestInstance(this, HelixHeadlessAccordion);
@@ -88,14 +111,20 @@ let HelixHeadlessAccordionItem = class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends MixinC
         if (this.wasOpen === false && this.open) {
             this.closePeers();
         }
+        if (changed.has('closing') && this.closing) {
+            this.finishClosing();
+        }
         this.wasOpen = this.open;
+        this.measure();
     }
     focusTrigger() {
         this.renderRoot.querySelector(`#${TRIGGER_ID}`)?.focus();
     }
     render() {
         const open = this.open;
-        const level = Math.min(6, Math.max(1, this.headingLevel ?? this.groupHeadingLevel ?? 3));
+        const shown = open || this.closing;
+        const landmark = shown || !this.findable;
+        const level = headingLevel(this.headingLevel ?? this.groupHeadingLevel);
         return html `
       <div part="container">
         <div part="heading" role="heading" aria-level=${level}>
@@ -115,15 +144,15 @@ let HelixHeadlessAccordionItem = class HelixHeadlessAccordionItem extends MixinC
         </div>
         <div
           id=${CONTENT_ID}
-          aria-labelledby=${TRIGGER_ID}
+          aria-labelledby=${landmark ? TRIGGER_ID : nothing}
           part="content"
-          hidden=${open ? nothing : this.findable ? 'until-found' : ''}
-          ?inert=${!open && !this.findable}
-          role="region"
+          hidden=${shown ? nothing : this.findable ? 'until-found' : ''}
+          ?inert=${!open && (this.closing || !this.findable)}
+          role=${landmark ? 'region' : nothing}
           @beforematch=${this.handleBeforeMatch}
         >
           <div part="content-inner">
-            <slot></slot>
+            <slot @slotchange=${this.measure}></slot>
           </div>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -146,11 +175,14 @@ __decorate([
     property({ attribute: 'heading-level', type: Number })
 ], HelixHeadlessAccordionItem.prototype, "headingLevel", void 0);
 __decorate([
-    property({ attribute: 'hidden-until-found', type: Boolean })
+    property({ attribute: 'hidden-until-found', converter: onUnlessFalse })
 ], HelixHeadlessAccordionItem.prototype, "hiddenUntilFound", void 0);
 __decorate([
     property({ reflect: true })
 ], HelixHeadlessAccordionItem.prototype, "name", void 0);
+__decorate([
+    state()
+], HelixHeadlessAccordionItem.prototype, "closing", void 0);
 HelixHeadlessAccordionItem = __decorate([
     customElement('helix-headless-accordion-item')
 ], HelixHeadlessAccordionItem);

package/dist/accordion/root/accordion-root.d.ts

@@ -17,12 +17,18 @@ import { HelixHeadlessAccordionItem } from '../item/accordion-item.js';
  * matched with `instanceof HelixHeadlessAccordionItem`, so the headless tier
  * does not depend on the styled tier's tag names.
  *
- * The keyboard listener belongs to the controller and is attached on connect,
- * so it does not run on the server.
+ * Keys, on a trigger: Up and Down Arrow move to the previous and the next
+ * trigger, and so do Left and Right, wrapping at the ends; Home and End go to
+ * the first and the last. Enter and Space open and close the section. Disabled
+ * sections are passed over.
  *
- * Each trigger sits inside a heading, level 3 unless `heading-level` says
- * otherwise, so the sections are in a screen reader's list of headings. Set the
- * level that fits the page's outline.
+ * Each trigger is a button with `aria-expanded` and `aria-controls`, inside a
+ * heading, level 3 unless `heading-level` says otherwise, so the sections are
+ * in a screen reader's list of headings. An open section is a region named by
+ * its trigger. Set the level that fits the page's outline.
+ *
+ * Find in page searches the closed sections too, and opens the one it matches
+ * in. `hidden-until-found="false"` turns that off.
  *
  * @since 0.1.0
  * @status stable
@@ -41,8 +47,11 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAccordion extends HelixElement {
     headingLevel?: number;
     /**
      * Whether find in page searches every closed section, and opens the one it
-     * matches in. Each item's own `hidden-until-found` turns it on for that item
-     * alone.
+     * matches in.
+     *
+     * On by default, as in React Aria's disclosure. Write
+     * `hidden-until-found="false"` to turn it off for every section; an item's
+     * own `hidden-until-found` wins for that item.
      */
     hiddenUntilFound: boolean;
     /**

package/dist/accordion/root/accordion-root.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ var __decorate = (this && this.__decorate) || function (decorators, target, key,
     else for (var i = decorators.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) if (d = decorators[i]) r = (c < 3 ? d(r) : c > 3 ? d(target, key, r) : d(target, key)) || r;
     return c > 3 && r && Object.defineProperty(target, key, r), r;
 };
-import { customElement, HelixElement, KeyboardNavigationController, whenHydrated, } from '@fusion.dev/helix-core';
+import { customElement, HelixElement, KeyboardNavigationController, onUnlessFalse, whenHydrated, } from '@fusion.dev/helix-core';
 import { html } from 'lit';
 import { property } from 'lit/decorators.js';
 import { HelixHeadlessAccordionItem } from '../item/accordion-item.js';
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const navigable = (item) => ({
 let HelixHeadlessAccordion = class HelixHeadlessAccordion extends HelixElement {
     constructor() {
         super(...arguments);
-        this.hiddenUntilFound = false;
+        this.hiddenUntilFound = true;
         this.keys = new KeyboardNavigationController(this, {
             items: () => this.items.map(navigable),
             origin: 'focus',
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ __decorate([
     property({ attribute: 'heading-level', type: Number })
 ], HelixHeadlessAccordion.prototype, "headingLevel", void 0);
 __decorate([
-    property({ attribute: 'hidden-until-found', type: Boolean })
+    property({ attribute: 'hidden-until-found', converter: onUnlessFalse })
 ], HelixHeadlessAccordion.prototype, "hiddenUntilFound", void 0);
 __decorate([
     property({ reflect: true })

package/dist/announcement/root/announcement-root.d.ts

@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ declare const HelixHeadlessAnnouncement_base: (new (...args: any[]) => import("@
  *
  * The live region is its own part. When the announcement appears after the page
  * has loaded, the message is written into the region one frame later, so screen
- * readers read it reliably, and the region is emptied seven seconds later, so
- * the message is not in the page twice. When the announcement is in the served
+ * readers read it reliably, and the region is emptied seven seconds later.
+ * While the region holds the copy, the message itself is hidden from screen
+ * readers, so it is in the page once. When the announcement is in the served
  * HTML, the region stays empty and nothing is read out.
  *
  * The dismiss button fires `helix-dismiss`, and the announcement stays in the
@@ -30,8 +31,11 @@ declare const HelixHeadlessAnnouncement_base: (new (...args: any[]) => import("@
  *
  * Set `duration` to dismiss it after a time. The clock stops while the pointer
  * or focus is on the announcement, and continues from what was left, so a
- * reader partway through is not cut off. When the time runs out it sends
- * `helix-dismiss`, as the button does.
+ * reader partway through is not cut off. It stops while the page is hidden too,
+ * in another tab or a minimized window, so the message is not spent where
+ * nobody can see it. While the clock is stopped the announcement carries
+ * `:state(paused)`. When the time runs out it sends `helix-dismiss`, as the
+ * button does.
  *
  * @since 0.1.0
  * @status stable
@@ -41,15 +45,18 @@ declare const HelixHeadlessAnnouncement_base: (new (...args: any[]) => import("@
  *
  * @slot - The message.
  * @slot actions - Actions for the message, usually a link or a button.
- * @slot icon - Replaces the icon inside the dismiss button.
+ * @slot dismiss-icon - Replaces the cross inside the dismiss button, as `Callout`'s slot of the same name does.
+ * @slot icon - Replaces the cross inside the dismiss button. Deprecated: use `dismiss-icon`, which is read first.
  *
  * @event {HelixDismissEvent} helix-dismiss - The dismiss button was pressed, or `duration` ran out. The announcement does not remove itself, so remove it in response. Cancelable.
  *
  * @csspart actions - The region after the message that holds the actions.
  * @csspart content - The region that holds the message.
  * @csspart dismiss - The button that dismisses the announcement.
- * @csspart dismiss-mark - The icon on the dismiss button, shown when the `icon` slot is empty.
+ * @csspart dismiss-mark - The cross on the dismiss button, shown when the `dismiss-icon` and `icon` slots are empty.
  * @csspart live - A copy of the message in a live region, read by screen readers when the announcement appears after the page has loaded, and emptied seven seconds later. Visually hidden in the styled tier.
+ *
+ * @cssstate paused - The clock `duration` started is stopped, while the pointer or focus is on the announcement or the page is hidden.
  */
 export declare class HelixHeadlessAnnouncement extends HelixHeadlessAnnouncement_base {
     /**
@@ -86,6 +93,9 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAnnouncement extends HelixHeadlessAnnouncement
     protected readonly arrival: ArrivalController;
     /** The time `duration` gives it, held while a reader is on it. */
     private readonly countdown;
+    /** Whether the page being hidden is one of the reasons the clock is held. */
+    private heldHidden;
+    private readonly handleVisibility;
     private readonly handleHold;
     private readonly handleRelease;
     connectedCallback(): void;

package/dist/announcement/root/announcement-root.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ var __decorate = (this && this.__decorate) || function (decorators, target, key,
     else for (var i = decorators.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) if (d = decorators[i]) r = (c < 3 ? d(r) : c > 3 ? d(target, key, r) : d(target, key)) || r;
     return c > 3 && r && Object.defineProperty(target, key, r), r;
 };
-import { ArrivalController, CountdownController, customElement, HelixElement, MixinDismissible, markRegion, slottedWords, } from '@fusion.dev/helix-core';
+import { ArrivalController, CountdownController, customElement, HelixElement, MixinDismissible, markRegion, reportRuntime, slottedWords, } from '@fusion.dev/helix-core';
 import { x } from '@fusion.dev/helix-icons';
 import { html, nothing } from 'lit';
 import { property } from 'lit/decorators.js';
@@ -20,7 +20,21 @@ let HelixHeadlessAnnouncement = class HelixHeadlessAnnouncement extends MixinDis
             done: () => {
                 this.dismiss();
             },
+            paused: (paused) => {
+                this.toggleState('paused', paused);
+            },
         });
+        this.heldHidden = false;
+        this.handleVisibility = () => {
+            if (document.hidden && !this.heldHidden) {
+                this.heldHidden = true;
+                this.countdown.hold();
+            }
+            else if (!document.hidden && this.heldHidden) {
+                this.heldHidden = false;
+                this.countdown.release();
+            }
+        };
         this.handleHold = () => {
             this.countdown.hold();
         };
@@ -34,8 +48,10 @@ let HelixHeadlessAnnouncement = class HelixHeadlessAnnouncement extends MixinDis
         this.addEventListener('mouseleave', this.handleRelease);
         this.addEventListener('focusin', this.handleHold);
         this.addEventListener('focusout', this.handleRelease);
+        document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', this.handleVisibility);
         if (this.hasUpdated) {
             this.countdown.resume();
+            this.handleVisibility();
         }
     }
     disconnectedCallback() {
@@ -44,10 +60,20 @@ let HelixHeadlessAnnouncement = class HelixHeadlessAnnouncement extends MixinDis
         this.removeEventListener('mouseleave', this.handleRelease);
         this.removeEventListener('focusin', this.handleHold);
         this.removeEventListener('focusout', this.handleRelease);
+        document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', this.handleVisibility);
+        this.heldHidden = false;
     }
     firstUpdated(changed) {
         super.firstUpdated(changed);
         this.countdown.start(this.duration);
+        this.handleVisibility();
+        if (this.querySelector(':scope > [slot="icon"]')) {
+            reportRuntime({
+                kind: 'deprecated',
+                message: `<${this.localName}>'s \`icon\` slot is deprecated: slot the glyph as \`dismiss-icon\`, the name Callout uses.`,
+                tag: this.localName,
+            });
+        }
     }
     updated(changed) {
         super.updated(changed);
@@ -57,14 +83,18 @@ let HelixHeadlessAnnouncement = class HelixHeadlessAnnouncement extends MixinDis
         markRegion(this.renderRoot, 'actions', ['actions']);
     }
     renderDismissIcon() {
-        return html `<slot name="icon">
-      <svg part="dismiss-mark" viewBox=${x.viewBox} fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true">
-        ${unsafeSVG(x.content)}
-      </svg>
-    </slot>`;
+        return html `<slot name="dismiss-icon"
+      ><slot name="icon">
+        <svg part="dismiss-mark" viewBox=${x.viewBox} fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true">
+          ${unsafeSVG(x.content)}
+        </svg>
+      </slot></slot
+    >`;
     }
     render() {
-        return html `<div part="content"><slot @slotchange=${() => this.arrival.say()}></slot></div>
+        return html `<div aria-hidden=${this.arrival.said === '' ? nothing : 'true'} part="content"
+        ><slot @slotchange=${() => this.arrival.say()}></slot
+      ></div>
       <span part="live" role="status">${this.arrival.said}</span>
       <div part="actions"><slot name="actions" @slotchange=${() => this.markEmpty()}></slot></div>
       ${this.dismissible

package/dist/app-header/root/app-header-root.d.ts

@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ import { type PropertyValues, type TemplateResult } from 'lit';
  * The host is the page's `banner` landmark. Placed inside `main`, `article`,
  * `aside`, `nav` or `section`, it is a plain box instead, as a native
  * `<header>` is there, so a header inside a card or a pane does not add a
- * second banner. A server cannot see the ancestors, so it serves the banner and
- * the browser corrects it when the element connects.
+ * second banner. The ancestors are read as the accessibility tree reads them,
+ * through the slots that take the header in, so one slotted into a component
+ * that draws a `<nav>`, such as `Navigation`, is not a banner either. A server
+ * cannot see the ancestors, so it serves the banner and the browser corrects
+ * it when the element connects.
  *
  * @since 0.1.0
  * @status stable
@@ -105,6 +108,8 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAppHeader extends HelixElement {
     private readonly handleScroll;
     protected willUpdate(changed: PropertyValues): void;
     connectedCallback(): void;
+    /** Whether this header is the page's banner, read from where it sits. */
+    private readLandmark;
     disconnectedCallback(): void;
     protected updated(changed: PropertyValues): void;
     protected render(): TemplateResult;

package/dist/app-header/root/app-header-root.js

@@ -47,9 +47,17 @@ let HelixHeadlessAppHeader = class HelixHeadlessAppHeader extends HelixElement {
     }
     connectedCallback() {
         super.connectedCallback();
+        this.readLandmark();
+        setTimeout(() => {
+            if (this.isConnected) {
+                this.readLandmark();
+            }
+        });
+        this.listen();
+    }
+    readLandmark() {
         this.landmark = inSectioningContent(this) ? '' : 'banner';
         hostAria(this.internals, { role: this.landmark });
-        this.listen();
     }
     disconnectedCallback() {
         super.disconnectedCallback();

package/dist/app-header/sectioning.d.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /**
  * Whether an element sits inside sectioning content, read across shadow
- * boundaries as the accessibility tree reads it.
+ * boundaries as the accessibility tree reads it: through the slot an element
+ * is assigned to, so a header slotted into a component that draws a `<nav>`
+ * around its slot, as `Navigation` does, is inside that `<nav>`.
  *
  * Client only: a server has no ancestors to read.
  */

package/dist/app-header/sectioning.js

@@ -11,15 +11,16 @@ const SECTIONING = [
     '[role="region"]',
 ].join(', ');
 export const inSectioningContent = (element) => {
-    let node = element.parentElement ?? hostOf(element);
+    let node = above(element);
     while (node) {
         if (node.matches(SECTIONING)) {
             return true;
         }
-        node = node.parentElement ?? hostOf(node);
+        node = above(node);
     }
     return false;
 };
+const above = (element) => element.assignedSlot ?? element.parentElement ?? hostOf(element);
 const hostOf = (element) => {
     const root = element.getRootNode();
     return root instanceof ShadowRoot ? root.host : null;

package/dist/area-chart/root/area-chart-root.d.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ import '../../tooltip/index.js';
 export interface AreaStack {
     /** The table's columns that hold numbers, by their place among its cells. */
     columns: number[];
-    /** Each column's running sum at each reading, the top edge of its band. */
+    /**
+     * Each column's top edge at each reading: its running sum, or its own
+     * reading under `overlap`.
+     */
     layers: number[][];
     /** Each column's heading. */
     names: string[];
@@ -44,6 +47,11 @@ declare const HelixHeadlessAreaChart_base: typeof HelixElement & (new (...args:
  * bands show each part's share. Use it to see which part grew. The default
  * shows whether the total grew.
  *
+ * `overlap` draws every band from zero, one in front of another, so each
+ * part's own amount is its height: the first column is in front. Use it to
+ * compare the parts with each other; the scale then fits the largest part
+ * rather than the total.
+ *
  * The drawing is hidden from screen readers. The text summary gives the latest
  * reading's total and each part's share of it, and the table beside the chart
  * has every number.
@@ -121,6 +129,15 @@ export declare class HelixHeadlessAreaChart extends HelixHeadlessAreaChart_base
      * a rule nobody sees.
      */
     gridlines?: 'both' | 'category' | 'value';
+    /**
+     * Draws every band from zero, in front of the next, so a band's height is
+     * its own part's amount and not its place in a stack.
+     *
+     * Absent stacks the parts, so the top edge is the total. Set, the first
+     * column is in front and the scale fits the largest part. Reflected, because
+     * the styled tier lets the bands behind show through the ones in front.
+     */
+    overlap: boolean;
     /**
      * Draws each reading as a hundred percent, so each band shows its share of
      * the total.

package/dist/area-chart/root/area-chart-root.js

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ const percentIn = (locale) => {
 let HelixHeadlessAreaChart = class HelixHeadlessAreaChart extends MixinChartSource(HelixElement) {
     constructor() {
         super(...arguments);
+        this.overlap = false;
         this.share = false;
         this.totalLabel = 'Total';
         this.warnedAboutNegatives = false;
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ let HelixHeadlessAreaChart = class HelixHeadlessAreaChart extends MixinChartSour
         const layers = [];
         let running = rows.map(() => 0);
         for (const column of drawn) {
-            running = running.map((sum, index) => sum + (column[index] ?? 0));
+            running = this.overlap ? column : running.map((sum, index) => sum + (column[index] ?? 0));
             layers.push(running);
         }
         return {
@@ -88,7 +89,11 @@ let HelixHeadlessAreaChart = class HelixHeadlessAreaChart extends MixinChartSour
         if (rows.length === 0 || stack.columns.length === 0) {
             return html `<div id=${CHART_PLOT} part="plot"></div>`;
         }
-        const top = this.share ? 1 : Math.max(0, ...stack.totals);
+        const top = this.overlap
+            ? Math.max(0, ...stack.layers.flat())
+            : this.share
+                ? 1
+                : Math.max(0, ...stack.totals);
         const domain = [0, top > 0 ? top : 1];
         const y = linear(domain, [PLOT_HEIGHT, 0]);
         const slot = PLOT_WIDTH / rows.length;
@@ -213,7 +218,7 @@ let HelixHeadlessAreaChart = class HelixHeadlessAreaChart extends MixinChartSour
         return drawTooltip(rows, at, this.tag('tooltip'), {
             placement: 'top',
             x: `${at * slot + slot / 2}%`,
-            y: `${y(stack.layers.at(-1)?.[at] ?? 0)}%`,
+            y: `${y(Math.max(0, ...stack.layers.map((layer) => layer[at] ?? 0)))}%`,
         }, (cell) => this.seriesOf(cell), this.pointer);
     }
 };
@@ -223,6 +228,9 @@ __decorate([
 __decorate([
     property()
 ], HelixHeadlessAreaChart.prototype, "gridlines", void 0);
+__decorate([
+    property({ reflect: true, type: Boolean })
+], HelixHeadlessAreaChart.prototype, "overlap", void 0);
 __decorate([
     property({ reflect: true, type: Boolean })
 ], HelixHeadlessAreaChart.prototype, "share", void 0);