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First layer of a 4-PR stack (focus API → test infra → link popover → Android Enter). Together, the stack supersedes #3025.

What

editor.isFocused() and onFocusChange only 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.

  • includeEditorUI option on isFocused() / onFocusChange(): treats everything portalled into editor.portalElement (and siblings of the content area) as part of the editor, and defers the blur decision until focus has settled — at focusout time document.activeElement reads as <body>, so the destination isn't knowable yet.
  • useEditorFocus (state, via useSyncExternalStore) and useEditorFocusChange (side effect) — the same split as useEditorState vs useEditorChange.
  • MobileFormattingToolbarController drops its 30-line private reach into editor._tiptapEditor for one hook call.

Behaviour notes for review

  • The new hooks hold their callback in a ref; useEditorChange / useEditorSelectionChange are 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; useEditorSelectionChange keeps forwarding the (undocumented) editor argument so untyped callers don't break.
  • The focus unsubscribe is reference-counted and now idempotent — a double unsubscribe used to permanently kill tracking for all later subscribers (proven red-first in the regression test).

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).

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  • New Features
    • Added focus tracking for both the editor content and related editor UI.
    • Added React hooks for reading focus state and subscribing to focus changes.
    • Added configurable focus handling through the includeEditorUI option.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved focus transitions between the editor and portalled UI.
    • Prevented unnecessary callback resubscriptions and stale callback usage.
  • Tests
    • Added browser coverage for focus behavior, subscriptions, multiple editors, and UI handoffs.

`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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The 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.

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Editor focus tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Core focus tracking
packages/core/src/editor/managers/EventManager.ts, packages/core/src/editor/managers/EventManager.browser.test.ts
EventManager tracks content and editor-UI focus, manages subscribers, defers focus settling, and cleans up document listeners. Browser tests cover event ordering, focus handoffs, editor isolation, and unsubscribe behavior.
BlockNoteEditor focus APIs
packages/core/src/editor/BlockNoteEditor.ts, packages/core/src/editor/managers/index.ts, packages/core/src/index.ts
isFocused and onFocusChange accept EditorFocusOptions. The option type is re-exported through the core API.
React focus hooks and subscription stability
packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocus.ts, packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocusChange.ts, packages/react/src/util/useIsomorphicLayoutEffect.ts, packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorChange.ts, packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorSelectionChange.ts, packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorState.ts, packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocus.browser.test.tsx, packages/react/src/index.ts
React adds focus hooks with optional editor-UI tracking. Existing callback hooks use refs and layout-effect timing to avoid resubscription on callback changes. Browser tests validate focus state and subscription stability.
Mobile toolbar focus integration
packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/MobileFormattingToolbarController.tsx
The mobile toolbar uses useEditorFocus({ includeEditorUI: true }) instead of manual focus state and event handling.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dd80e

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.

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  participant EditorContent
  participant EventManager
  participant BlockNoteEditor
  participant ReactHook
  participant MobileToolbar
  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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The hooks stayed still as callbacks changed,
While toolbar state was rearranged.
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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
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packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocusChange.ts lines 31-34 and
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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
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In `@packages/react/src/hooks/useEditorFocus.ts`:
- Line 24: Update the cache used by getSnapshot in useEditorFocus so
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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
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@YousefED YousefED reopened this Aug 31, 2026
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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