bug: ion-loading is not removed from dom if never presented

[aparajita]

bug: ion-loading is not removed from dom if never presented

[liamdebeasi]

Have you tried calling loading.remove() instead of .dismiss()? This will explicitly remove the element from the DOM. Dismissing an overlay means to move the overlay from an open to closed state. Since the overlay is already in the closed state, nothing happens.

[aparajita]

Have you tried calling loading.remove() instead of .dismiss()?

No, that method is not documented, so I had no idea it existed. In any case I reworked my code to not create the loading until it is going to be presented. But perhaps the documentation should be updated to cover the issue I ran into and to surface the remove() method.

[liamdebeasi]

remove is a browser API available on any Element so all Ionic components (and regular elements such as a <div>) automatically have access to this.

I'm going to close this since Ionic is working as intended here. However, I'll update the documentation to note this in the dismiss docs since I think it is helpful to call it out.