feat(core,react): public focus API with editor-UI-aware tracking - #3028
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`editor.isFocused()` and `onFocusChange` previously only saw the content area, so focus moving into the editor's own UI — a toolbar popover's input — read as a blur. That is fine for a desktop toolbar that unmounts anyway, but the mobile toolbar has to stay up while the user types a URL into the popover it opened. Adds an `includeEditorUI` option that treats the editor's UI as part of the editor, and defers the decision until focus has settled (at focusout the outgoing element has already lost focus and `document.activeElement` reads as `<body>`, so the destination isn't knowable yet). `useEditorFocus` exposes it as state for components that render off focus; `useEditorFocusChange` is the side-effect counterpart, the same split as `useEditorState` vs `useEditorChange`. The mobile toolbar controller switches to the hook, dropping its private reach into `editor._tiptapEditor`. The new hooks hold their callback in a ref so the subscription survives re-renders; `useEditorChange` and `useEditorSelectionChange` are converted to the same pattern for consistency. (Behaviour note: they no longer resubscribe when the callback identity changes — the latest callback is simply invoked.) The DOM contract this rests on is asserted rather than assumed — EventManager.browser.test.ts pins the documented focus event order, and that `document.activeElement` is `<body>` during focusout, across all three engines.
The document listeners behind `includeEditorUI` are reference-counted, and the returned unsubscribe decremented that count unconditionally. Calling it twice — which cleanup code does defensively — drove the count negative, so it never reached 1 again and the tracker silently stopped attaching for every later subscriber, with nothing to indicate anything was wrong. Proven across all three engines: subscribing after a double unsubscribe received no events at all. Also collapses the three near-identical copies of the `includeEditorUI` documentation into one exported `EditorFocusOptions` type, so the explanation has a single home rather than three that drift.
…acks The latest-ref wrapper called the callback with no arguments. The declared type never had any — so typed consumers are unaffected — but the subscription has always passed the editor, and an untyped caller using that argument would have silently received undefined. Forward it as before.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe editor now supports focus tracking across its content area and portalled UI. React adds focus hooks, stabilizes callback subscriptions, and updates the mobile formatting toolbar to use the new focus state. ChangesEditor focus tracking
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Focus-dependent UI may briefly show an outdated state when the editor or focus-tracking option changes. The impact is bounded and the PR remains mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to reset the cached snapshot across those transitions. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EditorContent
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participant BlockNoteEditor
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EditorContent->>EventManager: emit focus or blur
EventManager->>EventManager: track content and UI focus
EventManager->>BlockNoteEditor: publish focus change
BlockNoteEditor->>ReactHook: provide focus snapshot or event
ReactHook->>MobileToolbar: update toolbar visibility
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In `@packages/core/src/editor/BlockNoteEditor.ts`:
- Line 828: Update isFocused and the isWithinEditor boundary logic so a
document.body mount root does not classify unrelated body descendants as editor
UI. Track and use an editor-owned boundary that includes the editor’s content
and UI while excluding unrelated body children, preserving the existing
contentFocused behavior.
In `@packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocus.ts`:
- Line 24: Update the options type in useEditorFocus to derive from the first
parameter of BlockNoteEditor’s isFocused method using Parameters, replacing the
duplicated inline contract while preserving the existing optional behavior.
In `@packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocusChange.ts`:
- Around line 31-34: Update the callbackRef synchronization in
useEditorFocusChange and useEditorChange to use the repository’s isomorphic
layout-effect mechanism, ensuring the latest committed callback is available
before layout effects emit editor events. Apply the same change at
packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocusChange.ts lines 31-34 and
packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorChange.ts lines 25-28.
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Review feedback: these test a specific hook, not an end-to-end flow, so they belong next to the source as a .browser.test file (they still need real focus semantics, so a browser rather than jsdom). Ported off the mantine BlockNoteView onto BlockNoteViewRaw and plain react-dom, since the react package cannot depend on a skin. Also from review: useEditorFocus now uses the EditorFocusOptions type the core API exposes (newly exported publicly) instead of restating it.
Review finding: the refs behind useEditorChange, useEditorSelectionChange and useEditorFocusChange were updated in a passive effect, so a layout effect firing an editor event right after commit could still reach the previous render's callback. The refs now update in an isomorphic layout effect — extracted from useEditorState, which already had the SSR-safe variant inline.
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In `@packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocus.ts`:
- Line 24: Update the cache used by getSnapshot in useEditorFocus so
focused.current is reset or recomputed whenever either resolvedEditor or
includeEditorUI changes, rather than only on initial initialization. Ensure
useSyncExternalStore observes the current focus state during render, and add
transition coverage for each input change while editor UI is focused.
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Review finding: the cached settled value initialized once, so changing the editor or includeEditorUI rendered one frame computed for the old inputs before the new subscription re-synced. The cache is now keyed by both inputs — an input change re-reads live, which is exactly what the first render already did. Proven red-first: flipping the option while focus sits in the editor's UI rendered a stale false frame on all three engines.
The no-resubscribe behaviour was documented on the new focus hooks but only as an implementation comment on the two converted ones; it is part of their public contract, so their jsdoc now says it.
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| // Re-sync: focus can have changed between the render that produced the | ||
| // current snapshot and this subscription attaching. React does compare | ||
| // the snapshot again after subscribing (its subscribe effect is | ||
| // registered before the consistency-check one), so refreshing the | ||
| // cached value here is enough — but notifying explicitly keeps that | ||
| // independent of React's internal effect ordering. | ||
| focused.current = { | ||
| editor: resolvedEditor, | ||
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| value: resolvedEditor.isFocused({ includeEditorUI }), | ||
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| value: ctx.focused, | ||
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Can we not use useEditorState for this?
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focus info is not in the editor state, we could maybe extend the hook with support for it, but I think it will get quite messy
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Adding the concrete why-not: useEditorState's store is fed by on: "all" | "mount" | "selection" | "change" — transaction/lifecycle events. Focus is a DOM-side signal with settling semantics that never produces a transaction, so folding it in means a second event source in a transaction-snapshot store, re-rendering every on:"all" consumer on focus flips, and still needing the settling machinery underneath. useEditorFocus is the same pattern (useSyncExternalStore + input-keyed snapshot cache) applied to the focus store — a sibling of useEditorState rather than something to nest inside it.
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Not true, I tried it:
const isFocused = useEditorState({
editor,
selector: ({ editor }) => editor.isFocused(),
});Does correctly report the focus state of the editor, because tiptap already has a prosemirror plugin that adds a transaction for each blur & focus event. A bunch of things in Tiptap already rely on this: https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/blob/92c6d734dc895a20dd34350bd14feba3862bf31e/packages/core/src/extensions/focusEvents.ts#L18-L39
So, this is no more complex than what I wrote above. Selector results are memoized, so this would not re-render the component unless the value flipped, which is just about optimal.
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Ah, cool! Wasn't aware of that. If we were to follow that pattern, I suppose we'd also need to fire a transaction for Chrome (includeEditorUI) focus changes, right? First thoughts;
- Pro: it would provide a consistent API (
useEditorStatefor any getters that BlockNoteEditor exposes) - Con: we'd "pollute / misuse" (strongly worded..) the Prosemirror transaction system for things that are not directly editor (contenteditable surface) related.
What's your recommended approach here?
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We don't need to add document-level events to editor transactions. We already have the event handler. I've just gone ahead and added my commit of how this would work. Much simpler
From review: computeUIFocused duplicated isFocused({ includeEditorUI })
expression-for-expression — the manager now just calls it. The
document-level tracker attaches on the first subscriber ever and
detaches only when the editor is destroyed: no refcount, no
double-unsubscribe guard (unsubscribe is a bare off(), naturally
idempotent). A page that never subscribes still pays nothing; once
attached, the no-op cost per focus event is too small to be worth
tearing down.
The settle timeout stays: document.activeElement passes through <body>
mid-handoff and some UI libraries restore focus asynchronously (the
ariakit and shadcn link popovers both do) — a microtask is verifiably
too early, and a frame doesn't run in background tabs.
From review: it had no consumers — focus-as-state is useEditorFocus, and a side effect on focus changes subscribes directly with editor.onFocusChange (whose latest-ref concerns belong to the caller that has them). Smaller API, one less pair to document.
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Weird behaviour, does this not cause any visual weirdness on mobile with the virtual keyboard? A focus change to body would dismiss it I would think.
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Huh, nvm this is indeed just how focus works.
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| private computeUIFocused(): boolean { | ||
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| typeof document !== "undefined" ? document.activeElement : null; |
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Why do we need to check if document is defined? SSR?
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Yea, SSR, this is fine I think
| this.uiFocused = this.computeUIFocused(); | ||
| // On focusin the new element already holds focus, so the state can be | ||
| // read immediately. | ||
| const onFocusIn = (event: FocusEvent) => this.settleUIFocus(event); |
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It's not entirely clear to me why we need to listen for both focusIn and focusOut events. Isn't one of each fired per focus change?
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This may have messed up the stack, but I added a few commits with the simplifications I was looking for @YousefED |
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| return this.editor.onFocusChange(fn, { includeEditorUI: true }); |
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I think this would now not work with "all". besides that it makes sense
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I didn't bother to map "all" and I think it is enough of an edge case to not care. "all" would capture focus already, it just does not include the editor UI
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Instead, maybe, "all" should also just wire up editor.onFocusChange(fn, {includeEditorUI: true}) so that it will always trigger re-renders. Right now the onFocusChange only reports state transitions so it wouldn't be too bad. |
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I'm unsure about #2 since that callback already does the timeout stuff which should normalize it? |
Two regressions from basing useEditorFocus on useEditorState, both red-first proven and now pinned by browser tests: - Raw-mode staleness: on: "focus" subscribed with a hardcoded includeEditorUI: true, while the selector read the caller's options. Focus moving from the content area into the editor's own UI changes raw focus but not the combined state — no event, so the raw hook reported true forever. The two are distinct streams (raw fires per focus/blur; combined fires only settled), so "focus" and "focusWithinUI" are now separate on-channels and useEditorFocus picks by its option. - Settled-read erosion: an inline selector re-creates useSyncExternalStoreWithSelector's memo every render, re-running the selector as a live isFocused() read — and a live read during a focus handoff sees the transient <body> frame and renders a one-frame false (proven by forcing a re-render mid-handoff). The selectors are module-level so the memo holds and they run only at event time, which the channels guarantee is settled. Also aligns the focus-tracker comment with the mount/unmount lifecycle it now has.
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This is good now. I see why it needed the state to not flip now, so the custom hook is justified for this
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First layer of a 4-PR stack (focus API → test infra → link popover → Android Enter). Together, the stack supersedes #3025.
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editor.isFocused()andonFocusChangeonly saw the content area, so focus moving into the editor's own UI — a toolbar popover's input — read as a blur. Fine for a desktop toolbar that unmounts anyway; the mobile toolbar has to stay up while the user types a URL into the popover it opened.includeEditorUIoption onisFocused()/onFocusChange(): treats everything portalled intoeditor.portalElement(and siblings of the content area) as part of the editor, and defers the blur decision until focus has settled — atfocusouttimedocument.activeElementreads as<body>, so the destination isn't knowable yet.useEditorFocus(state, viauseSyncExternalStore) anduseEditorFocusChange(side effect) — the same split asuseEditorStatevsuseEditorChange.MobileFormattingToolbarControllerdrops its 30-line private reach intoeditor._tiptapEditorfor one hook call.Behaviour notes for review
useEditorChange/useEditorSelectionChangeare converted to the same latest-ref pattern for consistency. They no longer resubscribe when the callback identity changes — the latest callback is simply invoked. Typed consumers can't observe a difference;useEditorSelectionChangekeeps forwarding the (undocumented) editor argument so untyped callers don't break.Tests
EventManager.browser.test.ts(12 tests × 3 engines) pins the DOM contract this rests on — the documented focus event order,<body>during focusout — plus dedupe, multi-editor independence, and unsubscribe semantics. Sabotage-checked: breaking the tracker's dedupe fails 2 tests on all 3 engines.useEditorFocus.browser.test.tsx(colocated with the hooks) covers them (15 tests).Summary by CodeRabbit
includeEditorUIoption.