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The portal-element layer of the mobile stack: how BlockNote's floating UI (toolbars, menus, popovers, forms) decides where in the DOM it renders. It reworks the portal consolidation from #3046 and #3054 (both now superseded by this PR, with their commits in its history), then fixes what the consolidation broke on desktop.

Stacked on mobile-toolbar-demo (#2939); the layers above are #3028#3031 (stack #3056). Only this layer's own commits are the diff.

What ships

One vocabulary, two concepts. portalElement everywhere: PortalElement, portalElements, resolvePortalElement, usePortalElement, PortalElementOverride, editor.registerPortalElement / unregisterPortalElement, and the portalElement prop on every adapter popover, menu and select (was portalRoot). The themed root (.bn-root) is a single function, applyThemedRoot(element), on BlockNoteViewContext.

Where floating UI renders, top to bottom:

  1. The default is the element wrapping the editor element (bn-container in the default layout; the element you render BlockNoteViewEditor into under renderEditor={false}). This is what main did. An earlier revision of this PR used the bn-container instead; the docs demo showed why that is wrong: with the editor in a scrolling pane next to a sidebar, the table extend button escaped the pane and painted over the sidebar while the table stayed clipped. Floating UI clips and scrolls with the editor; escaping is what portalElements is for.
  2. portalElements on BlockNoteView (global default or per component) and a controller's portalElement prop redirect a floating component elsewhere, via PortalElementOverride, which mounts a themed root inside the target and registers it with the editor so focus inside it still counts as focus within the editor.
  3. The menus and popovers a floating component opens render inside that component's wrapper, next to the component, through a zero-size PortalElementAnchor. They share the wrapper's stacking context and visibility (the ariakit colors submenu paints above the drag handle without a z-index override; ariakit and shadcn dropdowns hide with their toolbar instead of staying orphaned when it scrolls away), they follow the wrapper under portalElements, and for the mobile toolbar they sit outside its scroll strip, which iOS WebKit would otherwise not paint. Adapters keep a required portalElement prop.

Desktop fallout of portalling, fixed here. Portalling menus out of the toolbar, side menu and table handle broke three things: CSS scoped on the opener (.bn-toolbar .mantine-Menu-item, .bn-side-menu .mantine-Menu-dropdown, …) stopped applying, so menu items grew and the drag-handle menu lost its min-width; the e2e drag-handle selector assumed nesting; and Mantine's useFocusTrap on the toolbar, armed once focus was within it, pulled focus back into the toolbar a tick after a form opened, so the link form's URL field lost focus (always for the link toolbar's Edit button, and for 0 ms synthetic clicks in e2e). Styles are rescoped on the dropdowns' own classes, the selector matches the menu by class, and the trap is gone: Tab moves through the buttons and on, as in the other skins. The color menu's deferred editor.focus() existed only to work around the trap.

GenericPopover's closing snapshot ignores the anchor's holder, otherwise a popover whose children are already gone would snapshot an empty wrapper and vanish instead of fading out.

Behaviour changes (release notes)

  • editor.mount(element, { portalTarget }) loses its options argument; call editor.registerPortalElement(el) for UI rendered outside the editor's DOM. useEditorDOMElement throws without an editor. PortalElement no longer admits null. portalRootportalElement across the adapters; portalElement is required on adapter Popover, Menu and ToolbarSelect. All introduced after v0.54.0, so pre-release surface.
  • The Mantine toolbar no longer traps Tab.
  • Menus, popovers and forms opened from a floating component are DOM descendants of that component's wrapper, not of the editor container. Selectors or styles that assumed either the old inline nesting or the container need updating.

Testing

  • tests/src/end-to-end/portals/portalElements.test.tsx: default target, external targets with themed roots, per-element selectors, document.body, and the renderEditor={false} layout (red on the container default).
  • tests/src/end-to-end/portals/floatingComponentMenus.test.tsx, per skin: menus render next to the component inside its wrapper, hide with it, follow it under portalElements; the component still fades out with its content. Red without the anchor on all skins for the first, on ariakit and shadcn for the second.
  • tests/src/end-to-end/linktoolbar/linkToolbar.test.tsx: 0 ms clicks on the link button and the link toolbar's Edit keep the URL field focused (red with the trap).
  • Render profile pinned in packages/mantine/src/BlockNoteView.browser.test.tsx (portal setups cost the same commits as the default).
  • Full desktop chromium suite green in Docker; new files green on Chromium, Firefox and WebKit; the android instance on the stack top shows only its known pre-existing ariakit skinParity red.

Known follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • Roving focus (arrow keys) for the Mantine and shadcn toolbars, matching ariakit.
  • Ariakit on the mobile toolbar: tapping the link button opens the popover but focus stays on the toolbar button and the URL input never receives it (the pre-existing skinParity red on the android instance). Neither keeping editor focus on touch in the ariakit ToolbarButton nor turning Ariakit's autofocus off on the popover fixes it; the composite toolbar's own focus handling is the likely cause.
  • Clicking a thread mark during the comment composer's fade-out does not select the thread (pre-existing).

matthewlipski and others added 9 commits September 2, 2026 20:01
Reworks the portal consolidation from #3046, keeping its model — portal
elements registered on the editor, themed roots for foreign targets — and
changing how it is named and wired.

Naming: one stem, `portalElement`, from `editor.registerPortalElement` and
`mount(el, { portalElement })` through `resolvePortalElement`,
`usePortalElement` and `PortalElementOverride` to the `portalElement` prop on
every popover, menu and select. `portalRoot`, `portalTarget`, `portalContext`
and `editorPortal` are gone. Where a forwarded prop and the ambient element
coexist they are `portalElementProp` and `portalElement`.

Theming: `ThemedRootProps` is replaced by a single `applyThemedRoot(element)`
on `BlockNoteViewContext`, composed from the base classes and whatever the UI
library adds. The mantine wrapper keeps base's `applyThemeVariables` ref for
the editor container and passes the same function down for portal roots, so
`BlockNoteTheme.ts` is untouched.

Plumbing: the default portal element is derived in `usePortalElement` from the
editor's own container, so `BlockNoteViewContainer` needs no state, no merged
refs and no provider wrapper. `PortalElementOverride` creates its themed root
directly and mounts it in a layout effect, replacing a `createPortal` of an
empty div, a ref/state round-trip and a `closest(".bn-root")` read during
render.
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Walkthrough

The portal system now uses registered portal elements and ambient React context. Floating UI receives themed targets through usePortalElement and PortalElementOverride. Mobile surfaces use explicit focus prevention. Tests cover target resolution, theming, containment, and render behavior.

Changes

Portal element migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Portal contracts and editor registration
packages/core/src/editor/BlockNoteEditor.ts, packages/react/src/editor/portalElements.ts, packages/react/src/editor/ComponentsContext.tsx, packages/ariakit/*
Portal targets become registered portal elements. The editor tracks multiple elements with reference counting. Menus and popovers wait for a portal element before portaling.
Portal override and themed view runtime
packages/react/src/editor/BlockNoteView.tsx, packages/react/src/editor/PortalElementOverride.tsx, packages/react/src/editor/UIModeContext.ts, packages/mantine/src/BlockNoteView.tsx
BlockNoteView resolves and themes portal elements. PortalElementOverride creates, registers, and provides portal elements. PortalElementAnchor keeps floating UI within its positioning wrapper.
Floating UI and adapter migration
packages/react/src/components/*, packages/mantine/src/*, packages/shadcn/src/*, examples/*
Menus, popovers, toolbars, comments, side menus, table handles, versioning controls, and examples use portalElement. Mobile controls use preventFocusOnOpen.
Validation and documentation
tests/src/end-to-end/*, packages/mantine/src/BlockNoteView.browser.test.tsx, docs/content/docs/react/components/index.mdx, examples/03-ui-components/20-portal-elements/README.md
Tests cover default, external, per-element, body, and manually rendered editor targets. Documentation describes reactive portal configuration and themed wrappers.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9cfad

This portal migration changes where floating editor UI mounts and how it retains focus. Mobile popovers may dismiss the keyboard, and nullable portal targets may leave floating UI detached or invisible; these behaviors should be resolved before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BlockNoteView
  participant PortalElementOverride
  participant FloatingUI
  participant BlockNoteEditor
  BlockNoteView->>PortalElementOverride: resolve and theme portal element
  PortalElementOverride->>BlockNoteEditor: registerPortalElement(element)
  FloatingUI->>PortalElementOverride: usePortalElement()
  FloatingUI->>FloatingUI: render menu or popover into element
  PortalElementOverride->>BlockNoteEditor: unregisterPortalElement(element)
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BREAKING: `editor.mount(element, { portalTarget })` loses its options
argument. The option decided where `editor.portalElement` was appended, and
that element no longer exists; it had already been reduced to an alias for
`registerPortalElement`, which callers can call directly and explicitly:

  editor.mount(element);
  editor.registerPortalElement(someContainer);

Only needed when floating UI renders outside the editor's DOM tree — UI next
to the contenteditable already counts as within the editor.
`portalRoot` is now required on `Menu.Root`, `Popover.Root` and the toolbar
select. The UI-library adapters never read the editor's context, so they
cannot fall back to it themselves; making the prop required lets the
compiler enforce what was a convention. Call sites pass the ambient element
as-is — `null` before the editor has mounted — instead of coercing it to
`undefined`.

What each adapter does with `null` follows its library, so none of them
portal to the document body:
- shadcn passes it through: Base UI waits for a container.
- ariakit toggles `portal` off: it renders inline until there is one
  (Ariakit appends a fresh div to the body for null and undefined alike).
- mantine already rendered inline on a falsy value.

The shadcn tooltips (`ToolbarButton`, `Badge`) keep reading the ambient
element through `useEditorPortalElement`. That is the one documented
exception: mantine and ariakit tooltips render inline and would ignore a
passed element, so a prop would buy nothing there.
# Conflicts:
#	packages/ariakit/src/menu/Menu.tsx
#	packages/ariakit/src/popover/Popover.tsx
#	packages/ariakit/src/toolbar/ToolbarSelect.tsx
#	packages/mantine/src/menu/Menu.tsx
#	packages/mantine/src/popover/Popover.tsx
#	packages/mantine/src/toolbar/ToolbarSelect.tsx
#	packages/react/src/components/Comments/EmojiPicker.tsx
#	packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/ColorStyleButton.tsx
#	packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/CreateLinkButton.tsx
#	packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/FileCaptionButton.tsx
#	packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/FileRenameButton.tsx
#	packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/FileReplaceButton.tsx
#	packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultSelects/BlockTypeSelect.tsx
#	packages/react/src/editor/ComponentsContext.tsx
#	packages/shadcn/src/badge/Badge.tsx
#	packages/shadcn/src/menu/Menu.tsx
#	packages/shadcn/src/popover/popover.tsx
#	packages/shadcn/src/toolbar/Toolbar.tsx
`vp run build` typechecks example projects that lint doesn't cover: the
three `SettingsSelect` copies render a `Toolbar.Select` without the now
required prop. They sit inside `BlockNoteView`, so they read the ambient
element and pass it.

Also drops the last `?? undefined` on a portal value: the shadcn `Badge`
tooltip passes the element as-is, like `ToolbarButton` already does, so
nothing falls back to the body.
Brings in Matthew's portal-elements test. Two of its cases are adapted to
this branch's contract: a per-element selector target gets a themed root
rendered inside it rather than being reused as one (no "already a .bn-root"
detection here), and `document.body` is passed explicitly, since `null` is
no longer a portal element value.
Portal setups — a `portalElements` default, a per-element target, a
controller's `portalElement` — must add no React commits or child renders
at mount, and cost the same as the default setup on an unrelated parent
re-render, with and without StrictMode. Counts are relative to the default
setup measured in the same run, so unrelated editor render changes don't
break them.

Colocated browser-mode test rather than end-to-end: it needs a real browser
(jsdom schedules commits differently) but nothing from the e2e harness, and
renders with `createRoot` + `act` since `vitest-browser-react` only exists
in the tests package. Red on the previous portal implementation (5 commits
vs 3 at mount with an external default target), green here and on the base
branch.

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In `@examples/03-ui-components/11-uppy-file-panel/src/FileReplaceButton.tsx`:
- Line 71: Update Components.Generic.Popover.Root in FileReplaceButton to pass
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onOpenChange={setIsOpen}
position={"bottom"}
portalRoot={mobileToolbarPortal ?? undefined}
portalElement={editorPortalElement}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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# Trace the mobile-toolbar signal and all focus-prevention call sites.
rg -n -C 6 'useMobileToolbarPortal|MobileToolbarPortal|preventFocusOnOpen' \
  packages examples tests

# Confirm this popover does not currently forward the mobile focus-prevention prop.
rg -n -C 8 'FileReplaceButton|portalElement=|preventFocusOnOpen' \
  examples/03-ui-components/11-uppy-file-panel/src/FileReplaceButton.tsx

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printf '%s\n' '--- mobile toolbar state and portal hook definitions ---'
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Preserve editor focus when this mobile popover opens.

Pass preventFocusOnOpen={useUIMode() === "mobile"} to Components.Generic.Popover.Root. The Mantine adapter otherwise allows focus to move into the popover, which can blur the editor and dismiss the on-screen keyboard. Add a touch regression test for this behavior.

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In `@examples/03-ui-components/11-uppy-file-panel/src/FileReplaceButton.tsx` at
line 71, Update Components.Generic.Popover.Root in FileReplaceButton to pass
preventFocusOnOpen based on useUIMode() === "mobile", preserving editor focus
when the mobile popover opens. Add a touch regression test verifying that
opening the mobile popover does not blur the editor or dismiss the on-screen
keyboard.

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onOpenChange,
position,
portalElement,
preventFocusOnOpen: _preventFocusOnOpen, // unused; see Menu.tsx

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Ariakit React Popover autoFocusOnShow default preventFocusOnOpen documentation

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In Ariakit, the Popover component inherits from the Dialog component [1]. The behavior concerning focus when the popover opens is controlled via the autoFocusOnShow prop [2]. 1. autoFocusOnShow: This prop determines whether the popover takes focus when it opens [3][2]. It defaults to true [2]. If you wish to prevent the popover from automatically receiving focus, you can set autoFocusOnShow={false} on the Popover component [4]. 2. preventFocusOnOpen: There is no prop named preventFocusOnOpen in the Ariakit Popover API. The functionality to disable automatic focus is handled entirely by setting autoFocusOnShow to false [2][4]. If you disable autoFocusOnShow, the popover will not automatically focus its content upon opening. This is a common pattern when you want to avoid stealing focus from the trigger element or another part of the page [4].

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In Ariakit 0.4.24, the autoFocusOnShow prop for components like SelectPopover (which inherits from the Dialog component) defaults to true [1][2]. This prop determines whether an element inside the dialog (popover) receives focus when it is opened. When set to true (the default), the component attempts to focus an element automatically based on the following priority order [1][2]: 1. A focusable element with an autoFocus prop. 2. The first tabbable element inside the dialog. 3. The first focusable element inside the dialog. 4. The dialog element itself. If you wish to prevent this automatic focus, you can set autoFocusOnShow={false} on the component [1][3]. The initialFocus prop can also be used in conjunction with autoFocusOnShow to specify a particular element to receive focus upon opening [1][2]. Note that if autoFocusOnShow is set to false, the initialFocus prop will have no effect [1][2].

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  'https://unpkg.com/@ariakit/react@0.4.24/ts/dialog/dialog.d.ts'
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Honor preventFocusOnOpen in both Ariakit adapters.

Both adapters discard this shared prop. In @ariakit/react@0.4.24, autoFocusOnShow defaults to true, so opening either surface can blur the editor contentEditable and dismiss the mobile keyboard. Thread the prop from Popover to PopoverContent and set autoFocusOnShow={!preventFocusOnOpen} on AriakitPopover; pass it directly to AriakitSelectPopover. Add mobile regression coverage for both surfaces.

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  • packages/ariakit/src/popover/Popover.tsx#L61-L61 (this comment)
  • packages/ariakit/src/toolbar/ToolbarSelect.tsx#L24-L24
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In `@packages/ariakit/src/popover/Popover.tsx` at line 61, Update Popover and
ToolbarSelect to honor preventFocusOnOpen instead of discarding it: thread the
prop from Popover to PopoverContent, set AriakitPopover autoFocusOnShow to the
inverse value, and pass it directly to AriakitSelectPopover. Add mobile
regression coverage for both surfaces, covering preservation of focus and the
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* - `null` — explicit `document.body` (escape any ancestor stacking context).
*/
export type PortalTarget = HTMLElement | string | null;
export type PortalElement = HTMLElement | string;

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Remove or restore the documented null portal target.

Both public JSDoc blocks still promise that null targets document.body. A documented consumer can pass portalElements={{ default: null }} at runtime, but resolvePortalElement returns null; PortalElementOverride then skips mounting while exposing its detached root through context. Ariakit popovers receive that detached root instead of portalling to document.body. Restore the null mapping, or remove the null documentation and document document.body as the replacement.

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In `@packages/react/src/editor/portalElements.ts` at line 7, Update the portal
target contract around PortalElement, resolvePortalElement, and
PortalElementOverride so documented null targets resolve to document.body and
mount correctly, or remove the null documentation and consistently document
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behavior, and context value aligned so no detached root is exposed for a null
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Menus now portal out of the toolbar, side menu and table handle that open
them, so rules scoped on those ancestors (`.bn-toolbar .mantine-Menu-item`,
`.bn-side-menu .mantine-Menu-dropdown`, ...) stopped applying: 14px items,
a missing min-width, an ariakit gap on every popover. Scope on the
dropdowns' own classes instead, and keep the ariakit gap for form popovers
only. The e2e drag-handle menu selector no longer assumes nesting either.
Every menu, popover and form a floating component (toolbar, side menu, table
handle, ...) opens now portals into a zero-size anchor next to that
component, inside the wrapper floating-ui positions. So they share its
stacking context and visibility (the ariakit colors submenu paints above the
drag handle without a z-index override; ariakit and shadcn dropdowns hide
with their toolbar instead of staying orphaned when it scrolls away), follow
it when `portalElements` relocates it, and, for the mobile toolbar, sit
outside its scroll strip, which iOS WebKit would otherwise not paint.

`GenericPopover`'s closing snapshot must ignore the anchor's holder, or a
popover whose children are already gone would snapshot an empty wrapper and
vanish instead of fading out.

The adapter-private contexts in ariakit and shadcn are renamed so they no
longer share a name with the react package's context.
Mantine's `useFocusTrap`, armed once focus was within the toolbar, moved
focus back into the toolbar a tick after a menu or form opened. With those
now portalled next to the toolbar rather than inside it, that stole focus
from the link form's URL field (0 ms clicks in e2e, and always for the link
toolbar's Edit button). Tab now moves through the buttons and on, as in the
other skins. The color menu's deferred `editor.focus()` existed only to
work around the trap.
Mounting schedules an update from an effect that can commit after `act`
has returned. On Linux WebKit whether it does varies from mount to mount,
so the setup measured second sometimes counted one commit fewer or more
than the baseline and the comparison failed (CI's webkit shard, 1 of 3
runs locally in Docker). Wait until no commit has landed for 50 ms before
reading the counts, at mount and after the parent re-render, so every
mount is measured once things have settled.
`usePortalElement` fell back to the editor's `bn-container`, which is the
editor element's parent in the default layout but not when a layout renders
`BlockNoteViewEditor` itself: there the container may also hold a sidebar,
and the table's extend button, sized to the table's full width, escaped the
editor's scrolling pane and painted over the sidebar while the table stayed
clipped. Fall back to the editor element's parent, as `mount()` did before:
floating UI clips and scrolls with the editor, and `portalElements` remains
the way to escape.
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