Add to cart drawer not showing

Store Design
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Topic summary

Issue: On a Shopify store using the Dawn theme, clicking “Add to cart” adds the item but provides no UI feedback—no cart badge update and no right-side cart drawer (side cart) opens. Expected behavior is a badge increment and the cart drawer appearing.

Context: Reported on a specific product page; user is on the latest Dawn version. The cart contents are visible only after manually opening the cart.

Suggestion offered: Another participant suspects custom code changes broke the cart functionality and advises rebuilding the store from scratch with the latest Dawn to resolve.

Requester’s response: They do not want to rebuild the entire store and ask for identification of the specific issue causing the cart drawer/badge to fail.

Status: Unresolved. No confirmed root cause or fix provided. Key open question: Which code or settings are preventing the cart drawer trigger and cart badge update in the current Dawn setup?

Notes: An image was attached; not essential to understanding the issue.

Summarized with AI on December 24. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi there,

I have a problem with my shop www.taneraskin.com :

When you add something to the cart, it shows no reaction. It should increase the number of items shown as a little number on the shopping bag symbol and it should show a box on the right side (like a cart pop up), but it’s not doing anything. The item is added to the cart, and if you klick on the cart you can see it, but I need a reaction to when a customer clicks on “Add to cart” (“In den Warenkorb”).

Do you have an idea how to do it? Using Dawn theme.

Example product: https://taneraskin.com/products/loofah-schwamm

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Best,

Isabelle

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@isabellemaria try to recreate your store from scratch with the latest version of Dawn theme, which will fix the issue. Seems like code has been changed and it is causing an error.

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Do you know what the issue is? I can’t find the problem…

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I am using the latest version of Dawn theme and I don’t want to recreate my whole store. Do you know what the problem is with my cart drawer?