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feat(core)!: rewrite side menu hover, add hoverMargin and dropMargin options - #3179
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The side menu now uses the element under the pointer (the event target) to
decide which block it shows for. It no longer computes coordinates at the
right edge of the editor and hit-tests them.
- Which block: the block of the target, then the deepest block at the
pointer's height. Only in the editor's padding does the side menu probe
once, next to the pointer.
- Moving towards the menu: the menu keeps its block while the pointer is
inside the area between its exit point and the menu. It follows the
pointer after a rest of 350 ms, or when the pointer turns away. This
replaces the 50 px offset for columns.
- A document change re-resolves the block under the pointer, also when the
pointer is on the menu.
- The menu hides when the pointer leaves the window, and stays while its
block is dragged.
- New editor option `sideMenu: { hoverMargin, dropMargin }`. By default the
menu shows only over the editor; drops are accepted up to 250 px outside.
- `referencePos` is the box of the hovered block.
- The extension uses the `createExtension` and store pattern. The drop
handling moved unchanged to `blockDropHandling.ts`. `SideMenuView` and
`sideMenuPluginKey` are removed.
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Some drops near adjacent editors may be rejected. This is a bounded edge case, but editor eligibility should be corrected before relying on the new drop behavior. Pre-merge checks |
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…overlap The drop handling selected the editor closest to a drag event. Where two editors overlap, both are at distance 0, and the editor that comes first in the document won, usually the one at the bottom. The side menu of the top editor now shows there, so a block dragged in the top editor was dropped into the bottom editor. If the target of the drag event is in an editor, that editor is now the only candidate. The distance only decides when the pointer is outside every editor.
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- Around line 197-198: Parse the blocknote/html payload in the drop-handling
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The drop handling parsed the `blocknote/html` drag data with `innerHTML` on an element of the page. An element of the page loads resources and runs event handlers in the HTML (e.g. `onerror` on an image), also when it is not in the document. A document from `DOMParser.parseFromString` is inert. The code is the same as on `main`; it moved in the previous commit, which is why code scanning reports it now.
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🟡 Minor · Reject resource URLs before inert parsing. · blockDropHandling.ts:197-203
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DOMParser.parseFromString(html, "text/html")call keeps scripts and inline handlers inert, but it can still fetchimgandiframeresources while parsing. The reachableblocknote/htmldrag payload is passed directly to this parser, so resource URLs in that payload can trigger requests despite the comment's explicit no-resource-load contract.Use a parser or sanitization step that removes resource-bearing elements and attributes before parsing, while preserving the existing block HTML conversion.
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- Around line 197-203: Update the HTML preparation in the block-drop handling
path before `DOMParser.parseFromString` so resource-bearing elements and URL
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- After a document change while the pointer is on the menu (e.g. a click on "+"), the menu resolves its block just right of the menu, on the line of its block. Before, it resolved at the pointer, which for a block in a column is over the column to its left, so the menu moved to that column. - After a document change, the menu looks past all UI of the editor, not only the registered menu element. A custom menu that does not call `setMenuElement` now also moves to the block that takes the place of a removed block. - A block that embeds another editor gets its side menu from the gutter of the outer editor again. The probe skips the blocks of the nested editor, and the child blocks of a block do not include them. - `getBlockFromElement` returns `undefined` for a block root without an ID, instead of an exception, and does not read the block type, which the side menu does not use on main. - Tests: regression tests for the first and third point, `await cleanup()`, and the window-leave test now moves in one step, so it tests `mouseout`.
dropMargin now counts from the editor element's box, like hoverMargin; the distance to the blocks still picks the drop editor and where the drop lands. Drop the test.fails case (unreachable by construction) and move the tests that pass on main into "works today".
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…within dropMargin - blockDOM.ts moves into SideMenu/ and holds the DOM-structure helpers; getBlockFromElement becomes getBlockElement, and the second lookup after the descent is gone. Tests for it are co-located. - findDropEditor only considers editors within dropMargin, then picks the one with the nearest blocks. - resolveHoveredBlock takes isWithinEditorUI and hoverMargin as parameters. - Comments: safePolygon note, SideMenuState.block, update() branches, FIXME on resolving blocks through ProseMirror. - Remove the unused SideMenuState duplicate in dragging.ts.
Side menu files resolved from the container port of #3179 (meta.draggable via isDraggable). blockDOM.ts stays in extensions/ (TableHandles uses it) and gains getBlockElement and getDirectChildBlocks. renderFrame.test.ts no longer imports the removed CONTAINER_SELECTOR.
Summary
The side menu now uses the element under the pointer (the event target) to decide which block it shows for. Before, it computed coordinates near the right edge of the editor and hit-tested them, and it selected an editor by distance. These coordinates could be outside the viewport, clipped by a scrolling parent, or under another editor. That caused the bugs below.
sideMenu.hoverMarginoption makes the area wider.How the side menu finds the block
elementsFromPoint, on the line of the pointer and just inside the edge of the blocks. The probe point is next to the pointer, so it is visible when the pointer is.The 50 px offset for columns is removed. The side menu no longer has special cases for columns.
Moving towards the menu
When the pointer leaves a block towards its menu, it can cross another block, e.g. the column to the left. The menu keeps its block while the pointer is inside the area between the point where it left the block and the menu. The menu follows the pointer when:
SideMenuControllergives the menu element to the extension with the newsetMenuElementmethod.Other changes
dragendis cleaned up on the next mouse move. The drag handle is the drag source: if a document change during the drag hid the menu, React would remove the handle and itsdragendwould not fire. This is a guard: onmain, a test for it passes before and after this change. The failure occurred on the container-blocks branch (Container blocks: container flag, frames, keyboard settings, toggles #3059).referencePosis now the box of the hovered block. The React UI already anchors the menu to the element of the block.createExtensionand store pattern of the other extensions, without a ProseMirror plugin view.blockDropHandling.ts. One change: if the target of a drag event is in an editor, that editor gets the drop. Before, the editor closest to the event got it, and where editors overlap that was the editor that comes first in the document, usually the one at the bottom.New option
The side menu docs page describes the option.
Breaking changes
sideMenu.hoverMargin.Tests
main: "+" clicked twice on a block in a column, and a block with a nested editor. Two independent reviews searched for differences frommain(one in the browser, one in the code); the regressions they found are fixed and covered by these tests.tests/src/end-to-end/sidemenu/overlappingEditors.test.tsx: hover and drag and drop with an editable or read-only editor under an editable one.tests/src/end-to-end/sidemenu/sideMenuHover.test.tsx: the fixed issues, the move towards the menu, the document changes under a still pointer, the padding of the editor and of columns, a modal over the editor, and the margins.blockGeometry.test.tsandsideMenuHover.test.ts.Summary by CodeRabbit
hoverMargin(default: 0).dropMargin; drops within range target the nearest editor position.