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Manage DOM Positioning with Vue 3's `Teleport` Component

Learn to use Vue 3's built-in `Teleport` component to render content, such as modals or notifications, into a different part of the DOM tree.

// src/components/MyModal.vue
<template>
  <teleport to="body">
    <div v-if="isOpen" class="modal-backdrop" @click="closeModal"></div>
    <div v-if="isOpen" class="modal-content">
      <h2>Modal Title</h2>
      <p>This content is teleported to the body!</p>
      <slot></slot>
      <button @click="closeModal">Close</button>
    </div>
  </teleport>
</template>

<script setup>
import { defineProps, defineEmits } from 'vue';

const props = defineProps({
  isOpen: Boolean
});

const emit = defineEmits(['close']);

const closeModal = () => {
  emit('close');
};
</script>

<style scoped>
.modal-backdrop {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100vw;
  height: 100vh;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
  z-index: 999;
}

.modal-content {
  position: fixed;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  background-color: white;
  padding: 20px;
  border-radius: 8px;
  box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
  z-index: 1000;
  max-width: 500px;
  width: 90%;
}
</style>

// src/App.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <h1>Teleport Example</h1>
    <button @click="showModal = true">Open Modal</button>

    <MyModal :isOpen="showModal" @close="showModal = false">
      <p>This is dynamic content passed through a slot.</p>
    </MyModal>

    <p>Some other content in the app...</p>
  </div>
</template>

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue';
import MyModal from './components/MyModal.vue';

const showModal = ref(false);
</script>
How it works: This snippet showcases the `Teleport` component, a built-in Vue 3 feature that allows you to render a part of your component's template into a different DOM node that exists outside the current component's DOM hierarchy. Here, a `MyModal` component uses `<teleport to="body">` to render its modal overlay and content directly into the `body` tag, preventing CSS stacking context or z-index issues from parent components.

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