Ben Nadel • 1/13/2026

Opening The Dialog Element As A Fly-out Sidebar

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This article details a developer's experiment to transform the native HTML <dialog> element from a centered modal into a fly-out sidebar. It explains the challenges posed by the browser's default user-agent styles and provides the specific CSS overrides (using properties like `inset` and `max-height`) required to achieve the sidebar layout, complete with a code demo.

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