Replacement for on: 'auto' in version 11?

[KeithGillette]

We've been using Shepherd through the angular-shepherd wrapper. Upon upgrade to angular-shepherd@15.0.0, which updates to shepherd@11.0.1, we found that the previous on: 'auto' PopperPlacement setting supported by Popper.js has been removed. We found auto positioning worked extremely well but the Floating UI placement options result in placements that put the arrow in the wrong place or obscure the element being pointed to with the Shepherd tour overlay. Is auto coming back?

[RobbieTheWagner]

@KeithGillette thanks for reaching out. Could you please describe the behavior that auto gave you and how the current behavior differs?

[KeithGillette]

Hi, @RobbieTheWagner. I'm not sure if it's due to a subsequent Floating UI release but in testing again, positioning seems much improved. In my previous testing, the update seemed unusable. Now, the positioning is not as elegant but passable. The arrows still aren't centering in the elements as the were before (shown in the comparison screenshots below) but at least the target is unambiguous and unobscured.

Popper auto:

Floating UI right:

Popper auto:

Floating UI bottom:

[RobbieTheWagner]

@KeithGillette hmm, it should be better centered than this. Would you be able to create a small reproduction in stackblitz or something similar?