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Respect RTL direction across UI adapters and table menus - #3334
Second of two stacked RTL PRs. This builds on the editor foundation and makes the UI skins use their supported direction APIs rather than custom keyboard-event rewriting.
Scope Mantine and Base UI direction providers to editor widgets; pass Ariakit's native RTL options to its composite widgets.
Follow inherited direction and committed React direction updates without remounting the editable editor or mutating <html dir>.
Open block menus and color submenus on the appropriate physical side, including custom Shadcn components; compensate for Mantine's own lateral-position mirroring.
Mirror Shadcn submenu keyboard navigation and chevrons through native direction support.
Keep exported table-positioning hooks consistent with the default controller.
Preserve RTL direction in the body-portaled mobile formatting toolbar, including its block-type menu and link popover.
Mirror indentation/alignment icons and use matching translated alignment tooltips and accessible labels in RTL, on desktop and mobile.
Read alignment from the actual selected BlockNote table cells and delegate updates to the table extension, preserving the caret and mixed-cell selections.
Add Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian switching to the playground example, resetting content on language changes.
Interpret table insertion sides physically in RTL tables and put reorder indicators on the correct logical edge.
Make multi-column drops land on the guide’s physical side in RTL, and mirror column resize hit-testing, drag deltas, spacing, and resize borders.
Base: #3333 (improve-blocknote-rtl-compatibility), not main. Review and merge the foundation PR first; rebase/retarget this PR as needed afterward.
Validation
Multi-column follow-up (a4a91912f9): 33 browser checks passed across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit; 125 unit tests passed, 5 existing skips; type-aware lint is clean. Broader drag/drop, column, static, and exporter run: 114 passed, 26 existing skips, with one Firefox coordinate-based deletion snapshot failure; the unchanged Firefox column suite passed all 8 checks on an isolated rerun. Existing visual baselines are unchanged.
Latest logical-alignment/mobile regression run: 153 passed, 5 existing skips, including static rendering and exporters. Subsequent review cleanup passed 57 targeted checks, followed by 9 alignment checks covering mixed-cell selections. Type-aware lint is clean.
Docker Vitest browser tests exercise all three skins, direction changes, submenu navigation/placement, table insertion/reordering, and exported positioning hooks.
Existing skin, form submission, static rendering, and exporter regressions are included in the final stack check.
Final stack run: 207 passed, 6 existing skips, across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with retries disabled. Existing static/exporter baselines are unchanged.
Targeted node tests: 24 passed (emoji model and SSR direction fallback).
Type-aware lint passes. Tests primarily use behavior and geometry, with three targeted Hebrew/Chromium mobile screenshot baselines. No style-value assertions or schema snapshot churn.
Known limitation
The installed Mantine version still hardcodes submenu open/close arrow keys. Pointer placement is fixed, but this PR deliberately does not add synthetic keyboard handlers to work around that upstream behavior.
Demo
Outward block menus, left-opening RTL color submenus, right-to-left table entry, and adding columns by clicking/dragging the left-side expander. Recorded against the completed stack.
rtl-controls.mp4
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New Features
RTL layouts are supported across menus, submenus, popovers, panels, toolbars, and table controls in Mantine, Ariakit, and shadcn/ui styles.
Menu placement, table handles, column controls, and column resizing adapt to text direction.
Text alignment, block nesting, and mobile formatting toolbars work across LTR and RTL layouts.
The RTL example supports Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian; changing languages resets the editor content.
Bug Fixes
Corrected column insertion and drop-indicator placement in RTL tables.
Improved RTL submenu navigation and tab focus behavior, including arrow-key direction.
Documentation
Updated the RTL example guidance for language selection and content reset behavior.
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Walkthrough
The changes add direction-aware table and column behavior, text alignment controls, and UI positioning across Ariakit, Mantine, Shadcn, and React components. The RTL example adds Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian language selection. Browser tests cover RTL and LTR behavior.
Changes: RTL direction-aware editor controls
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Summary
Table operations and text alignment packages/core/src/extensions/TableHandles/TableHandles.ts, packages/core/src/extensions/TableHandles/rtlTable.browser.test.ts, packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/TextAlignButton.tsx, tests/src/end-to-end/rtl/textAlignment.test.tsx
Column insertion and drop-cursor placement use table direction. Text alignment state includes selected blocks and table cells. Table alignment updates are delegated to the table-handles extension, and labels change for RTL. Tests cover insertion, reordering, and alignment.
RTL multi-column layout and operations packages/core/src/editor/Block.css, packages/xl-multi-column/src/extensions/ColumnResize/ColumnResizeExtension.ts, packages/xl-multi-column/src/extensions/DropCursor/multiColumnHandleDropPlugin.ts, packages/xl-multi-column/src/test/extensions/columnDrop.browser.test.ts
Column spacing, resize-boundary detection, resize movement, and drop insertion account for writing direction. Browser tests cover RTL and LTR drops and resizing.
Table-positioning hooks accept a direction. Side menus and color submenus choose positions based on editor direction. The mobile toolbar and popover anchor receive the editor direction. Browser tests cover handle placement, mobile toolbar behavior, menus, and nesting.
Ariakit direction synchronization packages/ariakit/src/useEditorRTL.ts, packages/ariakit/src/menu/Menu.tsx, packages/ariakit/src/panel/Panel.tsx, packages/ariakit/src/toolbar/*, tests/src/end-to-end/rtlAdapters/skinDirection.test.tsx
The new hook reads direction from the editor DOM or a fallback element. Ariakit menu, tab, toolbar, and select providers receive RTL state. Tests cover tab and toolbar keyboard navigation.
Mantine and Shadcn direction and placement packages/mantine/src/EditorDirectionProvider.tsx, packages/mantine/src/physicalPosition.ts, packages/mantine/src/menu/Menu.tsx, packages/mantine/src/popover/Popover.tsx, packages/mantine/src/panel/Panel.tsx, packages/mantine/src/toolbar/*, packages/shadcn/src/EditorDirectionProvider.tsx, packages/shadcn/src/menu/Menu.tsx, packages/shadcn/src/components/ui/dropdown-menu.tsx, packages/shadcn/src/panel/Panel.tsx, packages/shadcn/src/popover/popover.tsx, packages/shadcn/src/toolbar/Toolbar.tsx, tests/src/end-to-end/rtlAdapters/rtlAdapters.test.tsx
Direction providers read editor or inherited direction. Mantine menus and popovers convert positions for RTL. Shadcn menus forward side and alignment positions, and submenu indicators use logical direction. Tests cover menu placement, keyboard navigation, and custom dropdown content.
Multilingual RTL example examples/01-basic/18-rtl/*, playground/src/examples.gen.tsx
The RTL example offers Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. Selecting a language updates the dictionary and sample content and remounts the editor.
sequenceDiagram
participant EditorDOM
participant EditorDirectionProvider
participant Menu
participant MantineMenu
EditorDOM->>EditorDirectionProvider: provide computed direction
EditorDirectionProvider->>Menu: provide resolved direction
Menu->>MantineMenu: pass direction-adjusted position
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Suggested reviewers:yousefed, matthewlipski
Merge Risk: Low · up to a4a91
This change makes the editor UI skins and table and column behavior respect RTL direction. One known minor issue remains: with merged table cells selected, the text-alignment button may not show the correct selected state. The alignment itself is applied correctly, so the risk to merging is low.
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- Line 81: Update the alignment selector in TextAlignButton to derive values
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Read alignment from the cells that are actually selected.
getCellSelection().cells contains every position in the rectangle between the start and end cells, not only the selected cells. Its row and col values are child indices in each row's cells array. A colspan cell uses one index, so these values can differ from the visual grid.
For row 0 [A (colspan: 2), B] and row 1 [C, D, E], selecting B and E yields (0,1), (0,2), (1,1), and (1,2). (0,2) is not in content.rows[0].cells, so mapTableCell(undefined) returns a left-aligned cell. (1,1) is cell D, which is not selected. The alignment state therefore includes left values, and the right-alignment button stays unselected when B and E are both right-aligned.
Derive the alignments from the cells in the actual selection instead of the rectangle. setCellTextAlignment already iterates the real selection with tr.selection.forEachCell (TableHandles.ts:1150-1151), so the selector can use the same selection source.
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Update the alignment selector in TextAlignButton to derive values from cells visited by the actual cell selection, rather than treating its rectangle coordinates as indices into each row’s cells array. Reuse the selection iteration approach used by setCellTextAlignment with tr.selection.forEachCell, preserving the existing alignment-state behavior for the selected cells.
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Summary
Fixes #2434
Second of two stacked RTL PRs. This builds on the editor foundation and makes the UI skins use their supported direction APIs rather than custom keyboard-event rewriting.
<html dir>.Closes #922
Stack
Base: #3333 (
improve-blocknote-rtl-compatibility), notmain. Review and merge the foundation PR first; rebase/retarget this PR as needed afterward.Validation
Multi-column follow-up (
a4a91912f9): 33 browser checks passed across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit; 125 unit tests passed, 5 existing skips; type-aware lint is clean. Broader drag/drop, column, static, and exporter run: 114 passed, 26 existing skips, with one Firefox coordinate-based deletion snapshot failure; the unchanged Firefox column suite passed all 8 checks on an isolated rerun. Existing visual baselines are unchanged.Latest logical-alignment/mobile regression run: 153 passed, 5 existing skips, including static rendering and exporters. Subsequent review cleanup passed 57 targeted checks, followed by 9 alignment checks covering mixed-cell selections. Type-aware lint is clean.
Docker Vitest browser tests exercise all three skins, direction changes, submenu navigation/placement, table insertion/reordering, and exported positioning hooks.
Existing skin, form submission, static rendering, and exporter regressions are included in the final stack check.
Final stack run: 207 passed, 6 existing skips, across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with retries disabled. Existing static/exporter baselines are unchanged.
Targeted node tests: 24 passed (emoji model and SSR direction fallback).
Type-aware lint passes. Tests primarily use behavior and geometry, with three targeted Hebrew/Chromium mobile screenshot baselines. No style-value assertions or schema snapshot churn.
Known limitation
The installed Mantine version still hardcodes submenu open/close arrow keys. Pointer placement is fixed, but this PR deliberately does not add synthetic keyboard handlers to work around that upstream behavior.
Demo
Outward block menus, left-opening RTL color submenus, right-to-left table entry, and adding columns by clicking/dragging the left-side expander. Recorded against the completed stack.
rtl-controls.mp4
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