diff --git a/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/styles.css b/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/styles.css
index 745b9fe..b381244 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/styles.css
+++ b/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/styles.css
@@ -307,13 +307,26 @@ apex-chart.dialect-sparkline .apexcharts-xaxis {
    its left one slot (32px) further in. */
 .dialect-action-menu {
   position: absolute;
-  top: 11px;
+  top: 14px;
   right: 16px;
   z-index: 1;
   opacity: 0;
   transition: opacity 120ms ease;
 }
 
+/* Its button is a corner control like the grip and the close button, so it is
+   sized like one. A menu-bar button at its own size is 64px wide, i.e. twice
+   its slot: painted after the grip, it swallowed the grip's pointer events and
+   left the widget undraggable. The button is a light-DOM child of the menu bar,
+   so plain selectors reach it. */
+.dialect-action-menu vaadin-menu-bar-button {
+  width: 28px;
+  min-width: 0;
+  height: 28px;
+  padding: 0;
+  color: var(--dialect-ink);
+}
+
 .grid-stack-item:has(> .dialect-close-button) > .dialect-action-menu {
   right: 48px;
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/example/e2e/WidgetActionMenuPlaywrightTest.java b/src/test/java/com/example/e2e/WidgetActionMenuPlaywrightTest.java
index 5f39f1b..8549981 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/example/e2e/WidgetActionMenuPlaywrightTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/example/e2e/WidgetActionMenuPlaywrightTest.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package com.example.e2e;
 
 import com.microsoft.playwright.Download;
 import com.microsoft.playwright.Locator;
+import com.microsoft.playwright.Mouse;
 import com.microsoft.playwright.options.BoundingBox;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static com.microsoft.playwright.assertions.PlaywrightAssertions.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
 /**
@@ -43,6 +45,45 @@ class WidgetActionMenuPlaywrightTest extends PlaywrightTestBase {
         assertEquals(before, slot(item), "the widget must not have moved");
     }
 
+    /** The other half of it: the grip has to stay reachable next to the menu.
+     *  Both sit in the item's top right corner and the menu is painted after
+     *  the grip, so a menu wider than its corner slot takes the grip's pointer
+     *  events and the widget cannot be dragged at all any more. */
+    @Test
+    void draggingTheGrip_movesTheWidget() {
+        Locator item = widget();
+        String before = slot(item);
+
+        BoundingBox grip = grip(item).boundingBox();
+        double x = grip.x + grip.width / 2;
+        double y = grip.y + grip.height / 2;
+        assertEquals("dialect-drag-handle", topmostClassAt(x, y),
+                "another corner control covers the grip");
+
+        page.mouse().move(x, y);
+        page.mouse().down();
+        // In steps, not one jump: gridstack starts the drag on the first move
+        // past its threshold and places the item off the moves after that, so a
+        // single move would only ever arm the drag.
+        page.mouse().move(x + 240, y + 200, new Mouse.MoveOptions().setSteps(20));
+        page.mouse().up();
+
+        page.waitForCondition(() -> !before.equals(slot(item)));
+        assertNotEquals(before, slot(item), "the widget must have moved");
+    }
+
+    /** The class of the corner control the browser actually hits at that point,
+     *  or the topmost element's own class list if it is no corner control. */
+    private String topmostClassAt(double x, double y) {
+        return (String) page.evaluate("""
+                ([x, y]) => {
+                  const el = document.elementFromPoint(x, y);
+                  const control = el?.closest(
+                      '.dialect-drag-handle, .dialect-close-button, .dialect-action-menu');
+                  return control ? control.className : String(el?.className ?? el);
+                }""", java.util.List.of(x, y));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void menuButton_opensTheActions() {
         menuButton(widget()).click();
@@ -111,6 +152,10 @@ class WidgetActionMenuPlaywrightTest extends PlaywrightTestBase {
                 }""");
     }
 
+    private Locator grip(Locator item) {
+        return item.locator("> .dialect-drag-handle");
+    }
+
     private Locator menuButton(Locator item) {
         return item.locator(".dialect-action-menu vaadin-menu-bar-button").first();
     }