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What?

Part of #80138.

Use the shared design system outline for Modal’s scrollable content focus ring.

Why?

This region still uses a legacy box-shadow ring with a transparent outline fallback. The shared mixin aligns it with other components.

How?

Replace the shadow and fallback with outset-ring__focus(). Keep a negative, token-based offset to prevent clipping. Remove the unused Sass import.

Testing Instructions

1. Open the post editor (create or edit any post).
2. Click the Options menu (three vertical dots in the top-right corner) and select Preferences
3. Press Tab repeatedly until focus enters the scrollable content container.
4. Verify: A solid focus outline appears flush along the inside border of the scrollable region without being clipped.
5. Press the Up / Down Arrow keys to confirm that the container scrolls.

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• Style

  • Updated focus styling for scrollable modal content to use the design system’s standard focus outline.
  • Improved visual consistency by replacing the previous inset focus effect with the shared outline treatment.

• Documentation

  • Added an unreleased changelog entry describing the modal focus styling update.

The scrollable content focus style in Modal now uses the shared design system focus ring. The stylesheet no longer imports theme-variables, and the changelog records the update.

Changes: Modal focus styling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update scrollable content focus outline packages/components/src/modal/style.scss, packages/components/CHANGELOG.md	The scrollable content focus style now uses outset-ring__focus() and an outline offset based on --wpds-border-width-focus. The stylesheet removes the theme-variables import. The changelog records the update.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: ciampo

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f37a2

Restore the fallback to prevent clipped focus indicators in fallback environments.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: standardizing focus indicators for scrollable Modal content.
Description check		The description directly explains the focus-ring update, its rationale, implementation, and testing steps.
Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Review comments at @packages/components/src/modal/style.scss:
- Line 265: Update the outline-offset declaration to use the same fallback as
outset-ring__focus(), retaining --wpds-border-width-focus when defined and
falling back through --wp-admin-border-width-focus to 2px when it is undefined.

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