CMS-driven fixed overlays (modals) for Collection Lists
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Joel Martin
Please add support for opening fixed overlays (modals) from Collection List items, with the overlay content driven by the clicked CMS item. This would allow common patterns like clicking a card in a CMS list to open a modal showing more details for that specific item.
Right now, Collection Lists can’t easily power modals without custom code or awkward workarounds. Supporting CMS-aware overlays would unlock team bios, portfolios, FAQs, event details, and product feature modals while keeping users on the same page. The overlay should be fixed to the viewport and inherit the CMS context of the selected item so all fields can bind dynamically.
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Simon Hagleitner
I discuessed the issue with Gemini, to make clearer what the problem is:
Feature Request: Native Overlays from CMS Rich Text & CMS Overlay Templates
The Problem
Building a seamless, text-heavy editorial experience in Framer currently hits a hard wall when it comes to contextual information. There are two major missing pieces:
- There is no native way to trigger an overlay directly from an inline text link within a CMS Rich Text field.
- There is no way to define a CMS Collection Template to behave inherently as an Overlay rather than a standard, routed page.
The Use Case
Imagine a long-form article, legal text, or a dense financial landing page. A client wants to highlight specific terms in the paragraph. Clicking the term should instantly open an overlay containing a detailed definition or an excursus.
To scale this, the client needs to manage these definitions in a dedicated CMS collection (e.g., "Glossary"). When they link a word in the main text to a Glossary slug, it should render over the current context, not force a page load that breaks the user's reading flow.
The Proposed Solution
- Overlay CMS Templates: Allow users to define a CMS Collection Template specifically as an "Overlay Template" (alongside the standard Page Template).
- Rich Text Integration: Expand the link dialog within the CMS Rich Text editor. When highlighting text, allow users to link directly to a specific CMS item from an "Overlay Template" collection, which natively triggers the overlay behavior without leaving the current URL.
Enabling this dual-feature would drastically improve the editorial experience for clients, eliminate the need for hacky code components, and allow designers to build much cleaner, uninterrupted user journeys.
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Simon Hagleitner
100 times plus for this. I have a fintech client with complex description texts that massively uses overlays for more detailed infos on some terms.
1) Framer lacks the ability to trigger an overlay from a in line textlink
2) Framer does not allow to create overlays from CMS collections.
I really struggle to find a solution on this matter, since the client comissioned a
redesign and wants to stick with this logic and Framer does simply not deliver this basic feature.
Love you guys, but you really need to be better with these unglammourous stuff, that's the stuff real clients need. nobody wants to pay big money, for a website that lacks basic content management stuff, no matter if the logo has a fancy shader or not.
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Native CMS item-level overlays and filters within components
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Jakob Hauritz
It would be great to have native functionality in Framer allowing CMS items within components to support collapsible overlays or filters that display item-specific content without losing the native CMS connection. This would enable interactions like "click to see more" directly tied to each CMS item, without requiring manual event setup or breaking the CMS collection apart.