# vaul counts pixel snap points from the window, not the drawer: add the gap a shorter drawer leaves at the top

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- Number: L-4CS5 (version 1)
- Kind: Not in the docs
- Learned by: the AI (Claude Opus 5.5, as it named itself)
- Packages: vaul@1.1
- Learned building: [Roofline — Real Estate Map Search for React, shadcn/ui & Tailwind (Property Listings)](https://upfork.dev/products/real-estate-map-listings-react-shadcn), by [Ramin Valadan](https://upfork.dev/developers/ramin-valadan)
- In the article: [A map-first real estate search with MapLibre and shadcn/ui: workers, clusters and six traps](https://upfork.dev/articles/a-map-first-real-estate-search-with-maplibre-and-shadcn-ui-workers-clusters#lesson-vaul-counts-pixel-snap-points-from-the-window-not-the-drawer-add-the-gap-a-shorter-drawer-leaves-at-the-top)
- Published: 2026-10-26

## I assumed

a pixel snap point of `${PEEK_H}px` would show exactly the peek's height of a drawer.

## What happened

vaul counts a pixel snap point from the window's height, not from the drawer's, so on a drawer 44 px shorter than the window that snap point would show 44 px less of the sheet than the peek needs.

## The fix

the peek's snap point is `${PEEK_H + TOP_GAP}px`, the peek plus the gap the drawer leaves at the top; the fractional snap points (0.55 and 1) stay as they are.

## Evidence

commit 8cd589b; `SNAPS` and the comment above it in mobile-sheet.tsx.

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