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Summary

  • Fix caret/selection loss when a React custom style mounts after ProseMirror has updated its selection. This became visible after Tiptap removed ReactRenderer's constructor flushSync in fix(react): avoid flushSync warning when node views are created in an effect ueberdosis/tiptap#8663.
  • Let Tiptap own content-DOM attachment, then reconcile through ProseMirror's public EditorView.focus() after the current commit/transaction. Only reconcile an already-focused, non-destroyed editor; no native selection snapshots, manual DOM insertion, private-field workaround, or global flushSync.
  • Make the stale-node-view regression fixture explicitly request synchronous portal registration instead of relying on Tiptap's scheduling. Its reentrant recovery assertions are preserved.

Regression coverage

  • Native typing after applying a custom React style at a cursor, forward/backward selection, and selection spanning differently styled text.
  • Native selection endpoints/direction and focus handed to another input before deferred reconciliation.
  • Existing initial-mount, React-remount and API-remount typing coverage.
  • Original-source negative control: seven selection/typing cases fail. Removing the focus guard makes the focus-handoff case fail.

Validation

  • Locked dependencies: all 17 unit-test tasks pass; React build and changed-file type-aware lint/format pass.
  • Docker browser tests: 24/24 cases pass across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with the locked renderer, and another 24/24 with the isolated Tiptap 3.33.0 React renderer. The latter isolates the renderer change; it is not a full fresh dependency-graph run.
  • An independent read-only code review found no blocking defect or simpler equivalent public-API implementation.
  • Full PR CI and a fresh-resolution workflow run will be monitored before declaring this ready.

Real IME composition remains untested; no claim is made that every IME interaction is covered. No dependency pins, lockfile changes, snapshot updates, or investigation/playground files are included.

Related: #2937 / #2938 (stale-node-view recovery); ueberdosis/tiptap#8663 (upstream scheduling change).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed selection changes when styled text is mounted, preserving cursor positions and forward or backward selections.
    • Prevented styled text from unexpectedly moving focus back to the editor after focus has moved elsewhere.
    • Improved typing behavior after styled text is mounted, keeping the active highlight style intact.

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The changes update React mark-view content attachment and focus handling. Browser tests cover selection preservation and focus moving to an input. A separate test update makes portal registration synchronous and checks that a node view mounts during a command.

Changes: Mark-view selection and focus

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mark-view mounting and browser coverage
packages/react/src/schema/ReactStyleSpec.tsx, packages/react/src/schema/ReactStyleSpec.browser.test.tsx
The mark view uses a memoized content ref and conditionally calls view.focus() in a microtask. Browser tests check selection positions, typing, active styles, and focus retention in an input.

Synchronous node-view registration test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Synchronous registration and assertion
tests/src/unit/react/staleNodeViewPos.test.tsx
The test wraps portal registration in flushSync and verifies that the inserted marker node mounts during the command. Comments describe the synchronous registration path.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: matthewlipski, yousefed

Merge Risk: Low · up to 2f105

The change preserves selection during custom-style mounting, but a surrounding layout effect that moves the native selection can still have that selection overwritten. This is a narrow integration risk suitable for bounded follow-up or explicit acceptance.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 5

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: preserving selection when React custom styles mount, which matches the ReactStyleSpec changes, the new selection and focus tests, and the objective of preventing caret…
Description check Passed The description follows the repository template in substance. It has a Summary that explains the fix and the Tiptap cause. It covers Changes through the summary bullets, Impact through the focus guard…
Docstring Coverage Passed No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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The title names the main change: preserving selection when React custom styles mount, which matches the ReactStyleSpec changes, the new selection and focus tests, and the objective of preventing caret or selection loss. It uses the conventional fix(react) prefix and is concise and specific.

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The description follows the repository template in substance. It has a Summary that explains the fix and the Tiptap cause. It covers Changes through the summary bullets, Impact through the focus guard and fixture change, and Testing through the unit, browser, and negative-control results. It lacks a Rationale heading and a Screenshots/Video section (not applicable for this fix). The Checklist and Additional Notes sections are absent. It also lacks an explicit Impact discussion on existing functionality beyond the fixture change. These gaps are non-critical, so the description is mostly complete.

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A rabbit checks the cursor’s place,
Then watches marks appear with grace.
The editor keeps its focus near,
While inputs claim the typing gear.
A node mounts as the command goes by,
And hops along beneath the sky.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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tests/src/unit/react/staleNodeViewPos.test.tsx: 1

207-208: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Assert that the marker uses the portal wrapper.

The locked renderer already flushes synchronously, so mounted can be true even if registration bypasses the wrapper. Record and assert that the marker’s registration reaches the wrapped setRenderer. This will verify the fixture independently of the renderer’s scheduling.

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Review comment at @tests/src/unit/react/staleNodeViewPos.test.tsx around lines
207 - 208:
Update the control assertion in staleNodeViewPos.test.tsx to record whether the
marker’s registration reaches the portal wrapper’s wrapped setRenderer, and
assert that it does. Do not use mounted as evidence that registration passed
through the wrapper, since synchronous flushing can make mounted true
regardless.
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packages/react/src/schema/ReactStyleSpec.tsx: 1

108-110: Minor · Potential issue · Heavy lift

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We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

The deferred reconciliation calls view.focus() without excluding active IME composition. If that method synchronizes the DOM selection during composition, mounting a custom mark may disturb the browser-owned composition range.

Composition may terminate prematurely, lose text, or insert subsequent composition text at the wrong position.

This can occur when: An IME starts entering text with a custom React style active, causing a mark view to mount before composition ends.


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Review comments at @packages/react/src/schema/ReactStyleSpec.tsx:
- Around line 108-110: Update the queued focus logic in the style-mount flow
around `view.focus()` so it repairs selection displaced by attachment without
restoring an older editor-state selection over a newer native selection set by a
surrounding layout effect. Preserve the newer native selection until ProseMirror
can reconcile it.

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Review comments at @tests/src/unit/react/staleNodeViewPos.test.tsx:
- Around line 207-208: Update the control assertion in staleNodeViewPos.test.tsx
to record whether the marker’s registration reaches the portal wrapper’s wrapped
setRenderer, and assert that it does. Do not use mounted as evidence that
registration passed through the wrapper, since synchronous flushing can make
mounted true regardless.

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Validation complete for 2f1058be1372a5ec0c0ab3304ab2196d884e014b:

  • Build CI: passing, including build/lint/unit tests, production Next.js integration, browser shards, PDF exporters, and report generation.
  • Fresh Install Tests: passing after unrestricted production dependency resolution and deduplication.
  • CodeQL, zizmor, and deployment checks: passing.
  • Local full build: 43/43 tasks; full unit suite: 17/17 tasks; production Next.js consumer integration: 4/4; lint: zero errors (10 existing warnings).
  • Additional Docker tests on a fully freshly resolved graph (@tiptap/{react,core,pm} 3.33.0, React/ReactDOM 19.3.1): 48/48 custom-style and editable-inline-content cases across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
  • Negative controls: replacing the production fix with the original implementation fails the seven affected browser cases; removing the focus guard fails the focus-handoff case. The stale-node-view timing seam and real recovery fallback were independently negative-tested.

CI transparency: the initial full Build passed. A second run experienced a WebKit page crash/browser connection loss without assertion failures, causing its dependent report job to fail. Rerunning the failed jobs passed without source changes, skips, timeout increases, or snapshot updates.

The PR remains limited to three files; no dependency pins, exploratory files, or global flushSync restoration. Working tree is clean. Real OS IME composition remains a manual coverage gap. Not merged.

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