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fix(core): show the drag preview in Firefox and Safari, and draw it l…
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fix(core): remove editor background from drag preview
nperez0111 Oct 27, 2026
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22 changes: 0 additions & 22 deletions packages/core/src/editor/editor.css
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pointer-events: none;
}

.bn-drag-preview {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
padding: 10px;
/* Sort of a hack but seems like the most reliable solution. */
/* Drag preview element needs to be within bounds of the document area or it
won't work in some cases. */
/* Negative z-index covers most cases, but the element can still be visible
if UI elements are translucent. */
/* Setting opacity has no effect on the drag preview but does affect the
element. Unless it's set to 0, in which case the drag preview also becomes
hidden. So setting it to an extremely low value instead makes the element
functionally invisible while not affecting the drag preview itself. */
opacity: 0.001;
/* The element is kept in the DOM after setDragImage captures its snapshot,
so it can overlap the editor and block drops in that area. Disabling
pointer-events lets drag/drop events pass through to the editor while
leaving the captured preview unaffected. */
pointer-events: none;
}

.bn-editor .bn-collaboration-cursor__base {
position: relative;
}
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87 changes: 57 additions & 30 deletions packages/core/src/extensions/SideMenu/dragging.ts
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Expand Up @@ -61,49 +61,76 @@ function setDragImage(view: EditorView, from: number, to = from) {
to += view.state.doc.resolve(from + 1).node().nodeSize;
}

// The preview is a copy of the element that holds the dragged blocks,
// without its other children: a copy of each dragged block's element. The
// holding element can have no box of its own (`display: contents`, e.g. the
// slot of a React layout block), but the preview needs one.
const preview = view.domAtPos(from).node.cloneNode(false) as HTMLElement;
preview.style.removeProperty("display");
// A copy of the element that holds the dragged blocks, without its other
// children: a copy of each dragged block's element. The holding element can
// have no box of its own (`display: contents`, e.g. the slot of a React
// layout block), but the preview needs one.
const blocks = view.domAtPos(from).node.cloneNode(false) as HTMLElement;
blocks.style.removeProperty("display");
for (let pos = from; pos < to; pos += view.state.doc.nodeAt(pos)!.nodeSize) {
const blockDOM = view.nodeDOM(pos);
if (!blockDOM) {
throw new Error(`The dragged block at ${pos} has no DOM.`);
}
preview.appendChild(blockDOM.cloneNode(true));
blocks.appendChild(blockDOM.cloneNode(true));
}

// dataTransfer.setDragImage(element) only works if element is attached to the DOM.
unsetDragImage(view.root);
dragImageElement = preview;

// Browsers may have CORS policies which prevents iframes from being
// manipulated, so better to stay on the safe side and remove them from the
// drag preview. The drag preview doesn't work with embedded documents
// (iframe/embed/object) anyway, and including an <embed> (e.g. a PDF)
// can prevent the drag from initiating at all.
const embeddedDocs = dragImageElement.querySelectorAll(
"iframe, embed, object",
);
embeddedDocs.forEach((el) => el.parentElement?.removeChild(el));

// TODO: This is hacky, need a better way of assigning classes to the editor so that they can also be applied to the
// drag preview.
const classes = view.dom.className.split(" ");
const inheritedClasses = classes
.filter(
(className) =>
className !== "ProseMirror" &&
className !== "bn-root" &&
className !== "bn-editor",
)
.join(" ");

dragImageElement.className =
dragImageElement.className + " bn-drag-preview " + inheritedClasses;
blocks
.querySelectorAll("iframe, embed, object")
.forEach((el) => el.parentElement?.removeChild(el));

// The preview is outside the editor, so it copies what styles the blocks
// there: the theme of the editor's container (classes, color scheme, theme
// variables), the editor's classes, and the blocks' width, so that text
// wraps and images scale as in the editor.
const container = view.dom.parentElement?.closest(".bn-root");
const preview =
(container?.cloneNode(false) as HTMLElement | undefined) ??
document.createElement("div");
preview.removeAttribute("id");
preview.classList.add("bn-drag-preview");
const editor = document.createElement("div");
editor.className = view.dom.className;
editor.appendChild(blocks);
preview.appendChild(editor);

// The layout is inline, so that app CSS on the copied classes (e.g. a height
// on `.bn-editor`) does not change it. The preview is off-screen, as the
// browser only needs it for its snapshot: `opacity` would also hide it in
// the snapshot in Firefox and Safari. Taller than the cap, it would reach
// into the page from above.
Object.assign(preview.style, {
background: "transparent",
position: "absolute",
top: "-10000px",
left: "0",
margin: "0",
padding: "10px",
height: "auto",
minHeight: "0",
maxHeight: "75vh",
overflow: "hidden",
});
Object.assign(editor.style, {
// Keep the editor's background out of the empty space around the blocks.
background: "transparent",
width: `${(view.nodeDOM(from) as HTMLElement).offsetWidth}px`,
height: "auto",
minHeight: "0",
maxHeight: "none",
margin: "0",
padding: "0",
overflow: "visible",
});

// dataTransfer.setDragImage(element) only works if element is attached to the DOM.
unsetDragImage(view.root);
dragImageElement = preview;
if (view.root instanceof ShadowRoot) {
view.root.appendChild(dragImageElement);
} else {
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38 changes: 38 additions & 0 deletions tests/src/end-to-end/dragdrop/dragdrop.test.tsx
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Expand Up @@ -391,6 +391,42 @@ describe.skipIf(browserName === "firefox")("Dragging layout blocks", () => {
}
});

// The preview is outside the editor, so it copies the editor's theme,
// classes and width, and app CSS that sizes the editor does not apply.
test("draws the drag preview like the editor", async () => {
const appCSS = document.createElement("style");
appCSS.textContent = ".bn-editor { min-height: 500px; }";
document.head.appendChild(appCSS);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the injected CSS on every exit path.

If renderEditors or startBlockDrag fails, execution never reaches the try block and appCSS remains in the document. If dropDraggedBlock fails, the finally block also skips appCSS.remove(). The leaked rule can change later tests. Put setup inside the cleanup scope and remove the style in a nested finally.

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Review comment at @tests/src/end-to-end/dragdrop/dragdrop.test.tsx at line 399:
Move the setup involving renderEditors and startBlockDrag inside the cleanup
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await renderEditors([
{
id: "table",
type: "table",
content: { type: "tableContent", rows: [{ cells: ["A", "B"] }] },
},
]);

await startBlockDrag(handleOf("table"));
try {
const preview = await waitForSelector(".bn-drag-preview");
const copy = preview.querySelector('[data-id="table"]')!;
expect(copy.getBoundingClientRect().width).toBe(
block("table").getBoundingClientRect().width,
);
expect(preview.getBoundingClientRect().height).toBeLessThan(500);
expect(
getComputedStyle(preview.querySelector("td")!).borderTopStyle,
).toBe("solid");
expect(preview.getAttribute("data-color-scheme")).toBe(
document
.querySelector(".bn-container")!
.getAttribute("data-color-scheme"),
);
} finally {
await dropDraggedBlock(block("table"), true);
appCSS.remove();
}
});

test("moves a namedOnly layout block in its list, without a copy of the list", async () => {
await renderEditors([
{
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steps: 5,
},
]);
// The drop goes into the toggle once it is highlighted.
await waitForSelector("[data-drop-target]");
// Hovers before the drop, as a user does, which gave ProseMirror the time
// to draw the toggle again.
await sleep(200);
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