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Improve RTL editor layout and core interactions - #3333
First of two stacked PRs: a best-effort RTL editor foundation, without changing the document alignment model or adding automatic direction detection to every document.
Use logical spacing/borders for lists, nesting, quotes, toggles, and indent guides; map stored left/right alignment to logical start/end, and keep code LTR.
Respect explicitly configured per-block dir="auto" when laying out nested blocks, including toggles.
Put the side-menu gutter and drag preview on the appropriate side of an RTL editor.
Mirror emoji-grid horizontal navigation without moving the editor caret.
Keep URL fields LTR and link labels language-aware.
Mirror table handles, extension hover zones, and outward column-extension dragging.
Keep alignment values and defaults unchanged; document their logical start/end behavior.
Add a table-extension alignment operation that preserves the caret and cell selection.
Add a Hebrew-localized, playground-only RTL example with mixed Hebrew, Arabic, and English content.
Direction follows the editor's committed DOM layout, including inherited CSS direction and React direction updates. No mutation observers or global document-direction changes are introduced.
Stack
This PR: editor layout and core interactions → main.
Latest foundation update independently verified: 60 passed across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, with retries disabled.
PR 1 tested independently in a detached worktree, without PR 2's changes.
Focused behavior/geometry tests in Docker Vitest browser mode on Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
The isolated run had 193 passes, 4 existing skips, and one WebKit hover-test timeout; the entire WebKit hover suite passed unchanged on rerun (36 passed, 2 existing skips).
Emoji-model and SSR direction-fallback unit tests pass.
Type-aware lint passes. No new screenshot baselines or style-value assertions.
Scope and follow-ups
This does not claim complete RTL support. Multi-column interactions and RTL exports remain follow-ups. Alignment remains the existing API: left means logical start and right means logical end; no new schema values or default changes. UI-adapter hardening is intentionally separate in the next PR.
Mixed-language writing, lists/toggles, emoji navigation, and the localized slash menu. Recorded against the completed stack.
rtl-writing.mp4
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New Features
Added a Hebrew-localized, right-to-left editor example with Hebrew, Arabic, and mixed English text.
Bug Fixes
Improved right-to-left behavior for menus, text inputs, emoji navigation, drag previews, and table controls. Code blocks and URL fields retain left-to-right text direction.
Block alignment now follows logical start and end positions, which reverse visually in right-to-left layouts.
Documentation
Clarified how left and right alignment values map to logical positions in right-to-left blocks.
Tests
Added coverage for right-to-left layout, editing, navigation, and table interactions.
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Walkthrough
This PR adds a Hebrew-localized RTL editor example and updates editor direction handling across layout, text inputs, side-menu placement, emoji navigation, drag previews, and table interactions. Tests cover direction updates and RTL/LTR behavior.
Changes: RTL editor support
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Summary
RTL example and registration examples/01-basic/18-rtl/*, playground/src/examples.gen.tsx
The new Hebrew-localized example sets the editor and Mantine direction to RTL and includes Hebrew, Arabic, and English content. The example is registered in the playground and excluded from docs.
Editor direction and input contracts packages/react/src/hooks/*, packages/react/src/components/SideMenu/SideMenuController.tsx, packages/react/src/components/SuggestionMenu/EmojiPicker/*, packages/react/src/editor/ComponentsContext.tsx, packages/{ariakit,mantine,shadcn}/src/form/TextInput.tsx, packages/react/src/components/LinkToolbar/EditLinkMenuItems.tsx
The new useEditorDirection hook reads the editor’s computed direction. React controls use direction-aware placement or keyboard navigation. Text-input components accept and forward dir; link and embed URL inputs receive direction-specific settings.
Direction-aware editor and integration styling packages/core/src/editor/*, packages/react/src/editor/styles.css, packages/mantine/src/blocknoteStyles.css, packages/{ariakit,shadcn}/src/*
Editor and integration styles use logical inline properties or direction-specific rules. Code blocks remain left-to-right, and alignment, indentation, and input styles account for direction.
Direction-aware drag and table interactions packages/core/src/extensions/{SideMenu,TableHandles}/*, packages/react/src/components/TableHandles/*, packages/react/src/components/SuggestionMenu/EmojiPicker/*, tests/src/end-to-end/rtl/rtl.test.tsx, tests/src/utils/emojipicker.ts
Drag previews, table handles, column extension, and table-cell alignment account for direction. Tests cover drag anchoring, table interactions, emoji navigation, side-menu placement, and mixed-language links and image URLs.
sequenceDiagram
participant SideMenuController
participant useEditorDirection
participant editor.domElement
SideMenuController->>useEditorDirection: Read editor direction
useEditorDirection->>editor.domElement: Read computed direction
editor.domElement-->>useEditorDirection: Return computed direction
useEditorDirection-->>SideMenuController: Return ltr or rtl
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Possibly related PRs
TypeCellOS/BlockNote#3334: Builds on this PR’s direction API and modifies table-handle positioning and RTL table offsets.
Suggested reviewers:matthewlipski, yousefed
Merge Risk: Low · up to aeb7b
The RTL editor changes look sound overall. Minor follow-ups remain: the closed-toggle chevron may point the wrong way when RTL comes only from inherited CSS, and the standalone RTL example needs a doctype and a declared TypeScript dependency to build reliably.
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The title "Improve RTL editor layout and core interactions" matches the main change. The changeset adds RTL support across the editor: logical spacing and borders, side-menu and drag-preview placement, emoji navigation direction, table handle mirroring, and a new RTL example. The title is broad, but it names the primary theme and does not describe anything absent from the changeset.
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- Around line 423-426: Update the closed-toggle selectors for
`.bn-toggle-button` and `.bn-toggle-frame` to use an existing selector-visible
layout-direction signal that covers inherited CSS `direction: rtl`, not only
`:dir(rtl)`. Keep the explicit block-direction overrides, and establish the
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Generate a doctype for the standalone example.
Without a doctype, the standalone page uses quirks mode, while the playground uses standards mode. This changes browser layout rules and makes the standalone example an unreliable comparison with the playground. Update packages/dev-scripts/examples/template-react/index.html.template.tsx and regenerate the page. (html.spec.whatwg.org)
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Add the HTML doctype to the standalone example output by updating the template-react HTML template and regenerating the page; preserve the existing html element and its lang attribute.
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- pnpm .bin files and compatibility with Nrwl NX? — GitHub issue 2516 in pnpm/pnpm (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Declare the compiler required by build:prod.
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examples/01-basic/18-rtl/tsconfig.json \
packages/dev-scripts/examples/template-react/package.json.template.tsx
Declare Node types for the generated standalone example.
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Mirror closed toggles for CSS-based RTL layouts.
When an editor inherits direction: rtl without an HTML dir="rtl", :dir(rtl) does not match. The explicit block-attribute alternative also does not match. The closed toggle therefore retains its LTR rotation while the surrounding layout uses RTL. :dir() does not inspect the CSS direction property. (w3.org)
Use a selector-visible layout-direction signal that also covers inherited CSS direction. Keep the explicit block-direction overrides.
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Update the closed-toggle selectors for `.bn-toggle-button` and `.bn-toggle-frame` to use an existing selector-visible layout-direction signal that covers inherited CSS `direction: rtl`, not only `:dir(rtl)`. Keep the explicit block-direction overrides, and establish the available signal before choosing how to extend the selectors.
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Summary
First of two stacked PRs: a best-effort RTL editor foundation, without changing the document alignment model or adding automatic direction detection to every document.
dir="auto"when laying out nested blocks, including toggles.Direction follows the editor's committed DOM layout, including inherited CSS direction and React direction updates. No mutation observers or global document-direction changes are introduced.
Stack
main.Validation
Latest foundation update independently verified: 60 passed across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, with retries disabled.
PR 1 tested independently in a detached worktree, without PR 2's changes.
Focused behavior/geometry tests in Docker Vitest browser mode on Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
The isolated run had 193 passes, 4 existing skips, and one WebKit hover-test timeout; the entire WebKit hover suite passed unchanged on rerun (36 passed, 2 existing skips).
Emoji-model and SSR direction-fallback unit tests pass.
Type-aware lint passes. No new screenshot baselines or style-value assertions.
Scope and follow-ups
This does not claim complete RTL support. Multi-column interactions and RTL exports remain follow-ups. Alignment remains the existing API: left means logical start and right means logical end; no new schema values or default changes. UI-adapter hardening is intentionally separate in the next PR.
Context: #492, #2091, #2342, #922, and suitenumerique/docs#2919.
Demo
Mixed-language writing, lists/toggles, emoji navigation, and the localized slash menu. Recorded against the completed stack.
rtl-writing.mp4
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