v-native-dialog

v-native-dialog

A Vue 3 component using the native <dialog> element. This e.g. provides more helpful events than <dialog/> itself.

This library also allows to imperatively show dialogs using a useDialog() composition function and (optionally) have dialogs "return" result values.

Docs

See the interactive StoryBook page and the documentation further down on this page.

Install

npm install v-native-dialog
pnpm add v-native-dialog

Usage

As a child Vue component

<script type="setup">
import { ref } from 'vue';
import { NativeDialog } from 'v-native-dialog';
import 'v-native-dialog/style.css';
const open = ref(true);
</script>
<template>
	<!-- ... other content ... -->
	<NativeDialog v-model:open="open" v-slot="{ closeDialog }">
		<p>The dialog content</p>
		<button type="button" @click="closeDialog('ok')">OK</button>
		<button type="button" @click="closeDialog('cancel')">Cancel</button>
	</NativeDialog>
</template>

As a dynamic dialog

You can render dialogs on the fly using useDialog() without including the dialog content in a parent Vue component. This allows to extract reusable dialogs.

Prerequisite: Render <DynamicDialogOutlet/> provided by this library somewhere in you app. This renders all dynamic dialogs.

// some-file.ts
import { useDialog } from "v-native-dialog";
import NumberDialog from "./number-dialog.vue";

async function askUser(question: string): Promise<number> {
	const { resultPromise } = useDialog(NumberDialog, { props: { question } });
	const { action, result } = await resultPromise;
	if (action == "ok") {
		return result; // the number entered in the dialog, e.g. 42
	} else {
		// action is 'close' or 'cancel'
		return -1;
	}
	// alternatively: return result ?? -1;
}

<!-- number-dialog.vue -->
<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from "vue";
import { NativeDialog } from "v-native-dialog";
import "v-native-dialog/style.css";

defineProps<{ question: string }>();
const number = ref(42);
</script>

<template>
	<NativeDialog v-slot="{ closeDialog }">
		<p>{{ question }}</p>
		<p>
			<input type="number" v-model="number" />
		</p>
		<button type="button" @click="closeDialog('ok', number)">OK</button>
		<button type="button" @click="closeDialog('cancel')">Cancel</button>
	</NativeDialog>
</template>

Docs: NativeDialog component

Props

nonModal

• Type: boolean
• Default: false, i.e. modal
• Description: If true, the dialog will not be modal.

closedby

• Type: string ("any" | "closerequest" | "none")
• Default: not set
• Description: The native 'closedby' attribute, specifying how the dialog can be closed by the user. This currently (2025-12) has limited browser support.
  For "none" we additionally use a fallback which is Baseline Widely available: We call preventDefault() on the native cancel event.

preventEscape (deprecated, use closedby="none" instead)

• Type: boolean
• Default: false
• Description: If true, sets closedby="none" if that is not explicitly set. This prop is deprecated. Instead, use the closedby prop directly.

displayDirective

• Type: string ("if" | "show")
• Default: "if"
• Description: How the dialog shall be shown/hidden. By default, uses v-if, i.e., no rendering if hidden, re-rendering on show. If set to 'show', the rendered dialog is always in the DOM and will be shown/hidden using the 'open' attribute.

Default Slot

• Slot Props:
  • closeDialog(action?: string, result?: any): Function to close the dialog and optionally provide the action and result for the result event.

Events

opened

• Description: Triggers when the dialog is shown.
• Payload:
  • dialog: HTMLDialogElement

closed

• Description: Triggers when the dialog has closed.
• Payload:
  • dialog: HTMLDialogElement | null

result

• Description: Triggers when a result is emitted from the dialog (using closeDialog()).
• Payload:
  • payload: {action: string, result?: any} aka ResultPayload

    • action is 'close' by default, but can be any string you specify in the closeDialog(action) call, e.g. 'ok' or 'cancel'.

      If closed via v-model:open the action is 'hide'.

    • result is undefined by default. You can specify the value using the closeDialog(action, result) call. Use this for the "return value" of the dialog.

CSS custom properties

Can be adapted using CSS.

--v-native-dialog-bg-color

• Default: #fff
• Description: Background color for the dialog content.

--v-native-dialog-backdrop

• Default: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)
• Description: Color of the backdrop behind the dialog overlaying the page content.

--v-native-dialog-spacing

• Default: 1rem
• Description: Padding for the dialog content.

Docs: useDialog composition function

useDialog() creates (and by default opens) a dialog dynamically by adding it to the dialog list. This dialog list is rendered using the DynamicDialogOutlet component.

See Usage above.

Parameters

• component (Component): A Vue component that uses the NativeDialog in its template.
• options (Object, optional):
  • initiallyOpen (Boolean, default: true): Determines if the dialog should be open initially.
  • removeAfterClose (Boolean, default: true): Determines if the dialog should be removed from the dynamic list after it is closed. If you want to be able to re-open the dialog, set this to false.
  • props (Record<string, any>, default: {}): Props to pass to the dynamic dialog component.
  • dynamicDialogs (Ref<DialogInfo[]>, default: built-in global list): The list of dynamic dialogs.

Return value

Returns an object with these properties:

• result (Ref<ResultPayload<R> | undefined>): A ref holding the result payload of the dialog.
• resultPromise (Promise<ResultPayload<R>>): A Promise that resolves with the result payload (close action and result) when the dialog is closed. Mostly helpful for one-shot dialogs.
• show (Function): Opens the dialog.
• close (Function): Closes the dialog.
• destroy (Function): Closes the dialog and removes it from the dialog list. The dialog cannot be re-opened after this.

Docs: DynamicDialogOutlet component

This component should be rendered somewhere in your app. This is required for dialogs created dynamically using useDialog() to be shown.

Additional resources

Inspirations

• Component vue3-native-dialog
• Article 'Building a dialog component'

Misc

• Remaining caveats of the <dialog> element

Contribute

Run the interactive demo, which works as a nice testbed for changes.

npm run storybook