A Popover or Select that is open at mount restores focus to body instead of its trigger #10661

Provide a general summary of the issue here

A Popover (in a DialogTrigger) or a Select that is open at mount (defaultOpen) restores focus to <body> when it closes, not to its trigger.

🤔 Expected Behavior?

Closing it returns focus to the trigger, as it does when the same popover was opened by pressing the trigger.

😯 Current Behavior

Load without focusing anything, press Escape, wait 600 ms. 5 of 5 runs each:

dialog open at mount (aria-expanded=true), Escape -> focus: BODY
select open at mount (aria-expanded=true), Escape -> focus: BODY
control, dialog opened by clicking the trigger, Escape -> focus: BUTTON#trigger

💁 Possible Solution

useRestoreFocus records the active element during render as the node to restore (react-aria/dist/private/focus/FocusScope.mjs:440-443). For a surface open at mount that is <body>, and the trigger is never considered. Falling back to the overlay's trigger when the recorded node is <body> would cover it.

Not the same as #10610 (a race between the restore frame and inert cleanup): nothing races here, and it happens on every run.

🔦 Context

Found while building a design system on React Aria Components. Observed in headless Chromium (Playwright 1.63, real key and mouse events) with react-aria-components 1.21.1 / react-aria 3.52.1 / react-stately 3.50.0 and no other code.

🖥️ Steps to Reproduce

import { Button, Dialog, DialogTrigger, ListBox, ListBoxItem, Popover, Select, SelectValue } from "react-aria-components";

export function DialogRepro() {
  return (
    <DialogTrigger defaultOpen>
      <Button>Open</Button>
      <Popover><Dialog aria-label="d">Body <button>inside</button></Dialog></Popover>
    </DialogTrigger>
  );
}

export function SelectRepro() {
  return (
    <Select aria-label="s" defaultOpen>
      <Button><SelectValue /></Button>
      <Popover><ListBox><ListBoxItem id="a">a</ListBoxItem><ListBoxItem id="b">b</ListBoxItem></ListBox></Popover>
    </Select>
  );
}

Load the page, press Escape, read document.activeElement.

Version

react-aria-components 1.21.1, react-aria 3.52.1, react-stately 3.50.0, React 19.3.0

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome

What operating system are you using?

macOS

🧢 Your Company/Team

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🕷 Tracking Issue

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