diff --git a/dev/tests/layout-portal.tsx b/dev/tests/layout-portal.tsx
index 2145d44dda..8146428ca1 100644
--- a/dev/tests/layout-portal.tsx
+++ b/dev/tests/layout-portal.tsx
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ export const App = () => {
                     layout
                     style={{ width: 100, height: 100, background: "blue" }}
                     transition={{ duration: 10, ease: () => 0.5 }}
+                    data-framer-portal-id="test"
                 />,
                 document.body
             )}
diff --git a/packages/framer-motion/src/motion/features/layout/types.ts b/packages/framer-motion/src/motion/features/layout/types.ts
index 9c0a4c0f18..3480aeb972 100644
--- a/packages/framer-motion/src/motion/features/layout/types.ts
+++ b/packages/framer-motion/src/motion/features/layout/types.ts
@@ -87,4 +87,10 @@ export interface LayoutProps {
      * Currently used for `position: sticky` elements in Framer.
      */
     layoutRoot?: boolean
+
+    /**
+     * Attached to a portal root to ensure we attach the child to the document root and don't
+     * perform scale correction on it.
+     */
+    "data-framer-portal-id"?: string
 }
diff --git a/packages/framer-motion/src/render/VisualElement.ts b/packages/framer-motion/src/render/VisualElement.ts
index 6e32aec3f7..18d29c2f09 100644
--- a/packages/framer-motion/src/render/VisualElement.ts
+++ b/packages/framer-motion/src/render/VisualElement.ts
@@ -578,11 +578,6 @@ export abstract class VisualElement<
             !this.projection &&
             ProjectionNodeConstructor
         ) {
-            this.projection = new ProjectionNodeConstructor(
-                this.latestValues,
-                getClosestProjectingNode(this.parent)
-            ) as IProjectionNode
-
             const {
                 layoutId,
                 layout,
@@ -591,6 +586,14 @@ export abstract class VisualElement<
                 layoutScroll,
                 layoutRoot,
             } = renderedProps
+
+            this.projection = new ProjectionNodeConstructor(
+                this.latestValues,
+                renderedProps["data-framer-portal-id"]
+                    ? undefined
+                    : getClosestProjectingNode(this.parent)
+            ) as IProjectionNode
+
             this.projection.setOptions({
                 layoutId,
                 layout,