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Closes CHAT-21 and CHAT-22.

The bug

useOpenTransition measured the panel once on open and never released the measurement, so any consumer following the documented contract — height: var(…) with [data-starting-style] { height: 0 } — was pinned to the height the panel had at the moment it opened. Expand a nested row inside an open Steps.Panel, or let rows stream in, and the content was clipped.

Found in latch-platform on 0.1.1, which is currently working around it with h-auto + [interpolate-size:allow-keywords].

The fix

Three changes to internal/render/transition.ts, all mirroring @base-ui/react's collapsible:

  1. Enable the flags. useTransitionStatus(open, true, true). Both enableIdleState and deferEndingState were already vendored and simply never passed. idle is the settled-open status the release gates on; deferring ending by a frame leaves one frame where a closing panel is still at its open size.
  2. Release the height when the open transition settles. A useOpenChangeComplete gated on open && mounted && idle resets it to null. With nothing written, height: var(--panel-height) is invalid at computed-value time and falls back to auto, so the panel tracks its content for as long as it stays open. The close re-measures a pixel value first, so it still animates from a number.
  3. Measure the close before the closed styles apply. Previously the close was measured on the ending frame — with [data-ending-style] already applied — so it measured the clamped box rather than the natural one. It now measures on the deferred !open && mounted && idle frame.

Plus the measurement neutralizes inline alignment properties (justify-content, align-items, align-content, justify-items) for the read and restores them with their original priority, matching Base UI's resetLayoutStyles. Inline alignment can distort a scroll-based measurement.

One thing the issue didn't anticipate

Deferring the ending state has a consequence beyond measurement: the unmount's useOpenChangeComplete was gated on !open && mounted, which now fires a frame before [data-ending-style] lands. getAnimations() then finds nothing running and unmounts immediately — cutting the exit animation off.

So the unmount is now gated on transitionStatus === "ending". This matters for Composer.Panel as well, the only other consumer of the shared hook, which would otherwise have started snapping shut instead of fading out. That is the "each call site needs a pass" risk CHAT-21 flagged; there are exactly two call sites, and both are covered.

CHAT-22: the variable rename

--collapsible-panel-height--panel-height. The old name leaked an internal — Collapsible is not a public part, cannot be imported, and appears nowhere in the docs, so a consumer styling Steps.Panel had to reach for a variable named after a component they could not see.

This takes CHAT-22's option B rather than option A. Per-part names (--steps-panel-height, --reasoning-content-height) would have required threading a name through Collapsible.Panel as a prop, and that plumbing isn't worth it for two peers. The variable is now documented on both Steps.Panel and Reasoning.Content, which was the other half of the complaint.

Not included: getAnimationType (step 5 of the issue) and CHAT-23, both separate.

Verification

  • New regression test (tests/collapsible-panel-height.test.tsx) asserting the property is published while opening and released once settled. Verified it actually fails without the fix — with the flags off it reports 0px after settling instead of empty, which is the pinning bug. A second test pins the initially-open case, where there is no entry transition and so nothing to measure.
  • 193 package tests pass, and the suite is free of act(...) warnings — the extra settling frame introduced some, so the affected a11y test now drains pending frames inside act rather than letting them land after the test body.
  • publint clean, smoke-dist loads all 11 entries, biome check clean, app tsc clean, demo portability gate clean, audit-docs clean, next build prerenders all 20 pages.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Collapsible panels now release temporary height constraints after opening, allowing content to grow naturally.
    • Panel height measurements are handled more reliably during opening and closing transitions.
    • Closing panels now complete transitions before being removed.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the --panel-height CSS variable for reasoning and steps panels, including its transition-only behavior.
  • Style

    • Improved the Steps demo’s trigger interactions, status indicators, spacing, and chevron behavior.

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The collapsible transition measures natural panel height, releases the height constraint after opening, and uses --panel-height for both panel types. Tests, accessibility checks, documentation, the demo, and release notes cover the updated behavior.

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Collapsible panel height

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Transition measurement and height release
packages/chat/src/internal/collapsible.tsx, packages/chat/src/internal/render/transition.ts
The transition measures natural height with temporary alignment overrides. It manages idle and ending states, gates close completion, and omits --panel-height after the opening transition settles.
Transition validation
packages/chat/tests/collapsible-panel-height.test.tsx, packages/chat/tests/a11y/display.a11y.test.tsx
Tests validate measured height, height release, initially open panels, and settled accessibility state.
Documentation and demo alignment
content/docs/primitives/reasoning.mdx, content/docs/primitives/steps.mdx, content/docs/primitives/steps/demos/basic.tsx, .changeset/collapsible-panel-height.md
Documentation, the Steps demo, and release notes describe --panel-height, transition states, dynamic content sizing, and measurement requirements.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fe44c

The change releases panel height after opening so content can continue to resize correctly and preserves exit animations, with documented variable naming updates. It is mergeable with owner awareness that one localized documentation/demo class-name construction still needs to follow the repository's standard helper convention.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DisclosurePanel
  participant useOpenTransition
  participant PanelElement
  DisclosurePanel->>useOpenTransition: request open or close transition
  useOpenTransition->>PanelElement: neutralize alignment and read scrollHeight
  PanelElement-->>useOpenTransition: natural height
  useOpenTransition->>DisclosurePanel: publish or release --panel-height
  useOpenTransition->>PanelElement: complete ending state before unmount
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16-59: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a close-transition regression test.

The tests do not cover closing after the open height has been released. Add a test that settles an open panel, closes it, and verifies that --panel-height is restored before the exit transition starts. Mock scrollHeight and assert the expected pixel value so the test validates measurement instead of only property presence.

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In `@packages/chat/tests/collapsible-panel-height.test.tsx` around lines 16 - 59,
Add a regression test alongside the existing collapsible-panel tests that
settles an initially open panel, mocks its scrollHeight, closes it, and verifies
before the exit transition settles that --panel-height is restored to the mocked
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In `@packages/chat/tests/collapsible-panel-height.test.tsx`:
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scrollHeight, closes it, and verifies before the exit transition settles that
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The one finding on this PR was declined with reasoning in its thread and resolved: cn() cannot be used in content/docs/**/demos/ because tsconfig.demos.json deliberately provides no @/* alias — demos are self-contained so they can be copied into consumer projects that have no lib/utils.

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