From 1b9ba2f1b7007720ed1fcc3ac53e4888448ae01e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Demboski <benjamin.demboski@clarivate.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 16:31:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove Popover's default-override of elementContext:
 reference

This causes `@floating-ui/dom` to only flip the popover when its _anchor_ is clipped, not when the popover itself is clipped, which is an unexpected default behavior.
---
 ember-primitives/src/components/popover.gts | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ember-primitives/src/components/popover.gts b/ember-primitives/src/components/popover.gts
index 0c865e892..390c0f039 100644
--- a/ember-primitives/src/components/popover.gts
+++ b/ember-primitives/src/components/popover.gts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { FloatingUI } from "../floating-ui.ts";
 import type { Signature as FloatingUiComponentSignature } from "../floating-ui/component.gts";
 import type { Signature as HookSignature } from "../floating-ui/modifier.ts";
 import type { TOC } from "@ember/component/template-only";
-import type { ElementContext, Middleware } from "@floating-ui/dom";
+import type { Middleware } from "@floating-ui/dom";
 import type { ModifierLike, WithBoundArgs } from "@glint/template";
 
 export interface Signature {
@@ -220,20 +220,13 @@ function maybeAddArrow(middleware: Middleware[] | undefined, element: Element |
   return result;
 }
 
-function flipOptions(options: HookSignature["Args"]["Named"]["flipOptions"]) {
-  return {
-    elementContext: "reference" as ElementContext,
-    ...options,
-  };
-}
-
 export const Popover: TOC<Signature> = <template>
   {{#let (ArrowElement) as |arrowElement|}}
     <FloatingUI
       @placement={{@placement}}
       @strategy={{@strategy}}
       @middleware={{maybeAddArrow @middleware arrowElement.current}}
-      @flipOptions={{flipOptions @flipOptions}}
+      @flipOptions={{@flipOptions}}
       @shiftOptions={{@shiftOptions}}
       @offsetOptions={{@offsetOptions}}
       as |reference floating extra|