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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR replaces the experimental mobile formatting toolbar with visual-viewport positioning. It adds portal-aware menus and popovers, updates touch focus behavior, introduces a new example, and documents the required scrolling CSS. ChangesMobile formatting toolbar
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR makes the mobile formatting toolbar part of the default UI, but the current head still has compatibility and runtime issues that can hide the desktop toolbar, crash server-rendered consumers, misplace or clip menus, disrupt focus, falsely show the toolbar, or leave the example unable to build. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EditorUI
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participant PortalContext
participant ToolbarMenu
EditorUI->>MobileToolbarController: render on touch devices
MobileToolbarController->>VisualViewport: observe keyboard and viewport geometry
VisualViewport-->>MobileToolbarController: return keyboard state and CSS variables
MobileToolbarController->>PortalContext: publish toolbar wrapper
ToolbarMenu->>PortalContext: read portal target
PortalContext-->>ToolbarMenu: return toolbar wrapper
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Is there a way to implement this such that it requires no changes to an existing application (i.e. not require a specific parent div)?
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- Made mobile toolbar no longer experimental & part of default UI - Updated example
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examples/03-ui-components/14-mobile-formatting-toolbar/src/App.tsx (1)
29-43: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd mobile browser coverage for both toolbar modes.
The example covers visual-viewport positioning, keyboard visibility, and nested scrolling, but the PR adds no mobile end-to-end test. Add tests for the default scrolling mode and the
html/body-locked.scroll-hostmode. Verify toolbar visibility and placement above the keyboard in both cases.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@examples/03-ui-components/14-mobile-formatting-toolbar/main.tsx`:
- Line 4: Update the React entrypoint template’s App import to reference
./src/App without the .jsx extension, then regenerate the affected
auto-generated example entrypoints so they use the corrected import.
In `@examples/03-ui-components/14-mobile-formatting-toolbar/vite.config.ts`:
- Around line 15-28: Update the repository path resolution in the Vite
configuration’s source-alias block: change the core source existence check and
both `@blocknote/core` and `@blocknote/react` aliases to use ../../../packages/...
so they resolve from the repository root during development.
In `@packages/core/src/util/browser.ts`:
- Around line 31-33: Update isTouchDevice so it does not classify devices solely
from navigator.maxTouchPoints; incorporate viewport and interaction signals that
distinguish mobile layouts from touch-enabled desktop hardware. Preserve safe
behavior when navigator or window APIs are unavailable, and ensure
BlockNoteDefaultUI retains the desktop toolbar on touch-capable laptops and
desktops.
In `@packages/mantine/src/menu/Menu.tsx`:
- Around line 48-54: Scope the focus overrides in Menu to the mobile portalRoot
case: when portalRoot is absent, omit trapFocus={false}, returnFocus={false},
and withInitialFocusPlaceholder={false} so Mantine’s defaults remain active.
Update the Menu component’s prop construction while preserving these overrides
for menus rendered through a mobile portalRoot.
In `@packages/mantine/src/toolbar/ToolbarButton.tsx`:
- Around line 102-109: The ToolbarButton action-icon onPointerDown handler
currently prevents the primary mouse compatibility event before Safari focus
handling can run. Update onPointerDown to preserve Safari focus for primary
mouse input by moving the existing isSafari/isTouchDevice focus logic there, or
limit preventDefault to touch input; retain propagation behavior and avoid
changing unrelated branches.
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`@packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/MobileFormattingToolbarController.tsx`:
- Around line 49-54: Use MobileFormattingToolbar as the default component in
MobileFormattingToolbarController, and add the
bn-mobile-formatting-toolbar-scroll class to its toolbar scroll container in
packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/MobileFormattingToolbar.tsx
lines 22-25; update
packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/MobileFormattingToolbarController.tsx
lines 49-54 accordingly.
In `@packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/useVisualViewportRect.ts`:
- Around line 72-87: Update isVirtualKeyboardOpen so maxLayoutViewportHeight is
reset or scoped when the layout orientation changes, preventing a prior portrait
baseline from being compared with a landscape viewport; retain the existing
keyboard-threshold behavior within the current orientation.
- Around line 11-18: Update readVisualViewport to avoid dereferencing window
when it is unavailable during server rendering, returning a server-safe fallback
rectangle instead. Ensure the existing client-side effect refreshes the
rectangle after mount so browser dimensions and visual viewport values are
applied.
- Around line 57-65: Update the cleanup returned by useVisualViewportRect so an
individual hook instance does not remove shared document-level viewport
properties while other subscribers remain mounted. Either add shared
reference-counted publishing that removes the --bn-vv-* variables only after the
final subscriber unmounts, or retain the properties during per-instance cleanup
while preserving listener removal.
In `@packages/shadcn/src/menu/Menu.tsx`:
- Around line 32-34: Update the Menu provider around PortalRootContext.Provider
to read the parent portal-root context and use it whenever the portalRoot prop
is nullish, preserving an explicitly supplied root. Ensure nested Menu
components inherit the nearest parent portal root so MenuDropdown continues
rendering in the correct subtree.
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In `@examples/03-ui-components/14-mobile-formatting-toolbar/src/App.tsx`:
- Around line 29-43: Add mobile end-to-end coverage for the formatting toolbar
in App, covering both default scrolling and the html/body-locked .scroll-host
mode. For each mode, verify the toolbar is visible and positioned above the
on-screen keyboard, including the nested-scrolling behavior in the locked mode.
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Just for UX reasons, I think we should add padding on the top & bottom to these buttons, since I don't feel confident hitting them properly on mobile. Maybe a bit more on the X & Y too, but the top & bottom will already make a large difference: 
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I wonder if we could just pass a ref around rather than the element itself. It feels like this is just asking for extra re-renders
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Or skip this and just use a unique id and querySelector for it when you need it
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I think this is ok tbh, the toolbarElement state only updates when the toolbar is opened or closed, so when opening/closing the virtual keyboard. Which is necessary as any popovers/menus have to re-render so they can be portalled to the toolbarElement.
We could make toolbarElement a ref, but then we'd still need a state for each dropdown to ensure a re-render to apply the portal.
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R.e. adding padding to buttons to make them easier to tap, imo we should just scale up the whole toolbar with a transform as the text and icons are kinda small too on mobile. |
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In `@packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/useVirtualKeyboard.ts`:
- Around line 3-19: Update isVirtualKeyboardOpen to track the layout-equivalent
viewport width and reset maxLayoutViewportHeight when that width changes due to
orientation, then recalculate the baseline from the current viewport. Also reset
the shared baseline when the final useVirtualKeyboard consumer unmounts, using
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examples/03-ui-components/14-mobile-formatting-toolbar/src/style.css (1)
107-126: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd a mobile end-to-end regression test for the scroll contract.
This CSS locks document scrolling and delegates scrolling to
.scroll-hostand.bn-editor. Add a mobile test that opens the keyboard, verifies toolbar placement above it, and exercises both scroll containers.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@examples/03-ui-components/14-mobile-formatting-toolbar/src/style.css`:
- Around line 43-53: Update the .hamburger-button styles to provide a larger
touch target while preserving the existing visual icon size, and increase the
menu-link vertical padding equivalently so both controls have touch-friendly
clickable areas.
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In `@examples/03-ui-components/14-mobile-formatting-toolbar/src/style.css`:
- Around line 107-126: Add a mobile end-to-end regression test for the scroll
contract around the .scroll-host and .bn-editor scrolling behavior. Have the
test open the keyboard, verify the toolbar remains positioned above it, and
exercise scrolling in both containers while confirming document scrolling stays
locked.
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- On my Android, there's a gap between the toolbar and the device keyboard
What should happen when no text is selected and the Link or Comment button is clicked? Or should they be disabled?- what can we add in testing (e2e or unit tests)
The way it's currently set up, the examples that customize the FormattingToolbar will opt-out of the mobile formatting toolbar. So I suppose either the default FormattingToolbarController need to be a proxy to a mobile and desktop variant, or all examples need to be updateddid you also test on other touch devices like a tablet? Did you test both landscape and portrait mode of mobile?
fyi, Claude also had this feedback (didn't fully review this):
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Toolbar shows whenever the viewport shrinks, regardless of editor focus/selection (High) — MobileFormattingToolbarController.tsx:72-82 gates only on keyboardOpen. The experimental version also required useExtensionState(FormattingToolbarExtension). Reproduced: with activeElement === BODY and an empty editor, shrinking the viewport 300px shows a full 12-button toolbar (screenshot mobile-kb-unfocused.png). Concretely: typing in any other input on the page (search box, the comments composer — which disables its own formatting toolbar, so the main editor's appears) brings up the main editor's toolbar. Corollary: N editors on a page → N stacked toolbars; reproduced on collaboration/suggestion-gallery (3 editors → 3 .bn-mobile-formatting-toolbar nodes at the same fixed position). Suggest gating on keyboardOpen && editor focused (or the FormattingToolbar extension state / editor.isFocused()). -
Desktop regression in Mantine ToolbarSelect (Medium) — ToolbarSelect.tsx:30-45 sets trapFocus/returnFocus/withInitialFocusPlaceholder=false and position="bottom-start" unconditionally, unlike Menu.tsx which scopes them to portalRoot. Mantine 9.1.1 Menu defaults are trapFocus: true, withInitialFocusPlaceholder: true, and MenuTarget has no arrow-key handling — keyboard nav only works once focus is inside the dropdown. So on desktop, click-to-open the block type select no longer allows Arrow-key navigation. Also the dropdown alignment changes from centered to start-aligned on desktop. Both should be portalRoot ? false : undefined like Menu.tsx. -
Float-equality baseline reset breaks on pinch-zoom (Medium-low) — useVirtualKeyboard.ts:30 layoutWidth !== baselineLayoutWidth compares vv.width * vv.scale; I checked 7% of arbitrary scales give (390/s)*s !== 390. A pinch gesture with the keyboard open will almost surely hit one → max resets to the keyboard-open height → toolbar disappears until the keyboard is closed and reopened. Use a tolerance (e.g. Math.abs(...) > 1). -
Touch devices with no virtual keyboard lose the formatting toolbar entirely (Medium, design question) — BlockNoteDefaultUI.tsx:123-130 replaces the desktop controller on pointer: coarse. iPad/Android tablets with a Bluetooth keyboard (no trackpad → still coarse), iOS floating/undocked keyboard, or interactive-widget=overlays-content never shrink the visual viewport → no toolbar ever. Worth deciding if that's acceptable, or falling back to the floating toolbar when keyboard is closed. -
Leftovers / small things
Menu.tsx:207 flip = !position?.startsWith("top") + comment about "the mobile toolbar's color menu" — no call site passes a top* position anymore (ColorStyleButton passes none); stale, and it silently changes behavior for custom UIs that pass position="top".
ToolbarSelect.tsx:389 truncated comment "Prevents focus shift on mo".
Mantine select now bottom-start, Ariakit select now bottom — inconsistent; and FileReplaceButton losing position="bottom" is a no-op (Mantine/Ariakit default to bottom) — fine, just noting.
examples.gen.tsx readme string is stale vs. the new README (needs vp run gen); example style.css comment references DemoChrome but the file is DummyUI.tsx.
ExperimentalMobileFormattingToolbarController removed from the public export — intended, but a release note is warranted.
onPointerDown uses isTouchDevice() rather than event.pointerType === "touch"; the latter is more precise and avoids the global.
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Is the hamburger menu required for testing / demonstrational purposes?
if so, let's change to "some", "dummy", "buttons" or similar to clarify these menus are fake and people don't think they're broken
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move up, because this is the actual fix
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We could consider shipping this class with BlockNote, so implementors only need to add a single class to their existing DOM? wdyt?
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does this placement negatively effect non-mobile setups?
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returnFocus used to be false when not portalling, now it will be undefined. intended?
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tested accessibility on desktop?
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Is this separate PortalContext needed? Maybe it's clearer to revert this to a Prop, if possible at all?
I think it now causes confusion as there's both a PortalContext and a blockNoteContext.editor?.portalElement. Naming doesn't make clear what the difference is and when which one should be used. So if we want to stick to context, we should at least improve naming
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very micro, but maybe we should globally cache the result of this (it's unlikely to change). I'm not sure what the cost of matchMedia is
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Do we need this element, or can we just have these sub components also Portal to the existing editor portalElement we already use?
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I might have missed this, but;
- what if the device keyboard is showing because a different BlockNote editor is selected?
- what if the device keyboard is showing because an is opened.
Can you add these scenarios to the example?
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On desktop, with the example I can create this bug (select text, then scroll down): 
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…ple (#2985) * docs: name the mobile toolbar layouts, add layout toggle to example Introduce "scrolling document" (default) vs "pinned scroll container" (opt-in) as the names for the two page layouts the mobile formatting toolbar supports, and restructure the docs section around them. - Docs: simple-first rewrite of the Mobile Formatting Toolbar section (default layout, then the opt-in layout with its two CSS rules). - Example: stop embedding it in the docs (`docs: false`) - its page-level CSS (html/body overflow, full-viewport fixed scroll host, `.prose` rules) leaks into the docs page since examples render inline. Link to the standalone playground example instead. - Example: add a nav-bar switch that toggles the pinned scroll container layout via a class on <html>, so both layouts can be compared. - Playground: `.mantine-AppShell-root` width 100vw -> 100%, which caused a horizontal scrollbar on any example taller than the viewport. - Align README, JSDoc and example comments with the new naming; regenerate examples.gen.tsx. * Implemented PR feedback --------- Co-authored-by: Matthew Lipski <matthewlipski@gmail.com>
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Summary
This PR completes the experimental mobile formatting toolbar and adds it to the default UI. The toolbar opens when the virtual keyboard opens and sits above it.
There are basically 2 implementation tiers for it:
<html>and<body>non-scrollable, and putting all scrollable content in a descendant element, the mobile formatting toolbar can be overlayed on top of the scroll container. Therefore, it can have a fixed position rather than requiring updates based on scroll position, eliminating the jitter/lag. Docs have been added for exactly which styles need to go where.The second option is more ideal, but not all apps have the flexibility to lock scrolling on
<html>and<body>, especially given that some mobile functionality, like swipe down to refresh, rely on these elements being scrollable.The root issue
The reason why it's not trivial to keep an element just above the virtual keyboard is that unlike on desktop, the visual viewport and layout viewport are often different sizes on mobile.
The layout viewport is basically the full rendered window of the browser, whereas the visual viewport is the part of the layout viewport that the user actually sees. Typically, these are the same. When using pinch-to-zoom though, or opening the virtual keyboard, the visual viewport shrinks but the layout viewport remains the same size. While this is the case, scrolling will first move the visual viewport, and only move the layout viewport when it reaches its edge.
This means we cannot just use
position: fixedto lock the toolbar while scrolling - it's locked to the layout viewport, not the visual one. So we instead have to update the position of the toolbar when the visual viewport resizes or scrolls. This approach will always cause lag vs pure CSS. But to add insult to injury, the visual viewport fires resize and scroll events in a way that causes a lot of jitter compared to a scroll events fired by regular HTML elements.Alternatively, we could use
position: fixedto lock the toolbar if we attach it to an ancestor of the scrollable element. Since it's no longer being scrolled, we only need to update its position on resize, i.e. on pinch-to-zoom and virtual keyboard open/close. While pinch-to-zoom still causes jitter, it's a much less common gesture than scrolling, so we can afford it. Since the toolbar is only open when the virtual keyboard is, there's also no additional jitter from it opening/closing.This explains why we can't have a one-size-fits-all solution. To take advantage of
position: fixed, the formatting toolbar cannot be attached to the scrollable content, which is typically the whole page. Yet if it must be part of the scrollable content, we have to update its position on scroll which causes lag and jitter.Closes #938
Closes #2122
Rationale
The desktop formatting toolbar has a pretty annoying issue on mobile where the OS will display its own floating menu on top of it for things like cut, copy, and paste. A formatting toolbar that sits on top of the virtual keyboard is also a more common mobile UX pattern that's better for one-handed reachability.
Changes
portalRootprop in theComponentsContextto all popover-based elements in the formatting toolbar.Impact
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Testing
None as we don't have a mobile testing e2e environment, which is necessary for this. TODO?
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