Feature request: Option to disable Focus Restoration about a11y-dialog HOT 3 OPEN

Hello Bogdan!

Thank you for opening an issue and my apologies for leaving it unanswered for so long. It’s quite a nifty case you have here. Have you tried using the data-a11y-dialog-ignore-focus-trap attribute as mentioned in the documentation, in order to circumvent the focus restoration? You may have to patch the focus behavior yourself, but it seems like it should be doable?

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Hello @KittyGiraudel ,

We would also like a way to skip the focus restoration on dialog dismiss.

We have one set of dialogs that are triggered by a focused input box (not the best idea, I know), and when they are dismissed, the focus restoration triggers them to open again.

As a workround, we've created another data attribute for the dialog container, and in hide() we skip the focus call if it is found.
Basically this:

if (!this.$el.hasAttribute('data-a11y-dialog-skip-focus-return')) {
	this.previouslyFocused?.focus();
}

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Generally speaking, I am a little weary of adding an explicit way to opt-out from the focus restoration — it’s such an important part of building an accessible dialog, and one of the key points of a11y-dialog. There are very few cases where it should be needed (and as you said, most of them are not a good idea), so I’m hesitant in adding more code for that.

I tend to think that the data-a11y-dialog-ignore-focus-trap escape hatch and some custom JS logic is enough for these weird cases, but maybe I’m wrong of course.

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