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Ensure anchored components are always rendered in a stacking context #3115

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This PR ensures that components with the anchor prop always use the floatingStyles from Floating UI (which contains position: absolute).

This is important, otherwise there is a brief moment where the <ListboxOptions anchor={…} /> (in case of a Listbox) is rendered at the end of the page.

One side effect of this is that this could cause a scrollbar to appear for a moment. But the anchor prop also renders the component in a Modal which does scroll locking (by applying overflow: hidden; to the body).

A side effect of adding overflow: hidden is that the scrollbar is removed. This is nice, but this causes a visual jump when the scrollbar is removed. To counteract this, we also add a padding-right based on the width of the scrollbar to the body to prevent the visual jump.

But because of the brief moment where the scrollbar is visible, we also add a padding-right to the body to prevent the visual jump actually which now causes a visual glitch now. Head scratcher...

Long story short, no more accidental scrollbar appearing for a brief moment.

Before this change, we were only providing the `floatingStyles` based on
the `isEnabled` state. However, this relies on information that is only
available in the next render.

Now the styles are provided one render too late. This means, that there
will be a moment where the `ListboxOptions` (in case of a `Listbox`) is
rendered at the end of the page (and expanding the height of the parent)
without positioning it on top of it in a separate layer (due to the
`position: absolute;`)

The reason this was added was to prevent applying styles to the
`ListboxOptions` if it did not require anchoring (aka no `anchor={{…}}`
prop is provided).

Instead of relying on the `isEnabled` value (which is computed based on
information that is only available in the next render), we provide the
styles based on the incoming `anchor` information which is available
immediately.

The cool thing is that Floating UI is already providing a default
`position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;` style. If we apply this, it's
already stacked instead of rendering at the end of the page.
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