fix: Collaboration cursor clipping (BLO-1362) - #3095
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 9 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCollaboration cursor labels now use CSS anchor positioning and shared cursor management. Labels flip below or to the left at viewport edges. Both Yjs extensions use the shared manager, and browser tests cover geometry, transitions, scrolling, activity, and cleanup. ChangesCollaboration cursor labels
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant YCursorExtension
participant CollaborationCursorManager
participant EditorPortal
participant BrowserLayout
YCursorExtension->>CollaborationCursorManager: receive awareness change
CollaborationCursorManager->>EditorPortal: render and portal cursor label
CollaborationCursorManager->>BrowserLayout: assign caret and label anchors
BrowserLayout->>EditorPortal: position label with viewport fallback
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In `@packages/core/src/extensions/Collaboration/cursor.ts`:
- Around line 213-222: Update cursorBuilder so the cached entry retains the user
data used for rendering, compares it with the latest user, and rebuilds and
replaces the cursor when that user changes; continue returning the cached
element unchanged when the user is unchanged, while preserving the existing
renderCursor/defaultCursorRender selection.
In `@packages/core/src/yjs/extensions/YCursorPlugin.ts`:
- Line 33: Normalize remote awareness users before passing them to
cursors.cursorBuilder in the Yjs 13 path, applying the same name and color
fallbacks used by the Yjs 14 path. Ensure missing color never reaches the
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| function cursorBuilder(user: CollaborationUser, clientID: number) { | ||
| const existing = cursors.get(clientID); | ||
| if (existing) { | ||
| return existing.element; | ||
| } | ||
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| const cursor: Cursor = options.renderCursor | ||
| ? { element: options.renderCursor(user) } | ||
| : defaultCursorRender(user); | ||
| cursors.set(clientID, cursor); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Cached cursors ignore later user updates.
cursorBuilder returns existing.element as soon as a clientID is known. The manager never re-reads user after the first render. If a remote client changes its name or color, the label keeps the original text and background for the rest of that client's session. onAwarenessChange only toggles data-active, so the stale content is never refreshed.
Store the rendered user and rebuild the cursor when it changes.
♻️ Sketch of a user-aware cache
type Cursor = {
element: HTMLElement;
label?: FloatingLabel;
hideTimeout?: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>;
+ user: CollaborationUser;
}; function cursorBuilder(user: CollaborationUser, clientID: number) {
const existing = cursors.get(clientID);
- if (existing) {
+ if (existing && existing.user.name === user.name && existing.user.color === user.color) {
return existing.element;
}
+ if (existing) {
+ hideCursor(existing);
+ cursors.delete(clientID);
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In `@packages/core/src/extensions/Collaboration/cursor.ts` around lines 213 - 222,
Update cursorBuilder so the cached entry retains the user data used for
rendering, compares it with the latest user, and rebuilds and replaces the
cursor when that user changes; continue returning the cached element unchanged
when the user is unchanged, while preserving the existing
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| }) | ||
| : undefined, | ||
| ].filter(Boolean), | ||
| cursorBuilder: cursors.cursorBuilder, |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
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for f in packages/core/src/yjs/extensions/YCursorPlugin.ts packages/core/src/y/extensions/YCursorPlugin.ts; do
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y-prosemirror 1.3.7 yCursorPlugin cursorBuilder awareness user source
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In y-prosemirror 1.3.7, the yCursorPlugin is used to render collaborative cursors based on the Yjs Awareness protocol [1][2]. The plugin allows developers to customize the appearance of these cursors via the cursorBuilder option [1][3]. The cursorBuilder is a function that receives the remote user's awareness state and returns an HTMLElement to be rendered in the ProseMirror view [4][1]. Customizing Cursor Appearance: To provide a custom DOM element for cursors, you can pass a cursorBuilder function to the yCursorPlugin configuration object [1][5]. Example: / * This function receives the remote user's "user" awareness state. */ export const myCursorBuilder = user => { const cursor = document.createElement('span') cursor.classList.add('ProseMirror-yjs-cursor') cursor.setAttribute('style', border-color: ${user.color}) const userDiv = document.createElement('div') userDiv.setAttribute('style', background-color: ${user.color}) userDiv.insertBefore(document.createTextNode(user.name), null) cursor.insertBefore(userDiv, null) return cursor } // Usage in plugin configuration: yCursorPlugin(provider.awareness, { cursorBuilder: myCursorBuilder }) [1][3] Awareness and Filtering: The yCursorPlugin relies on the Awareness instance from your Yjs provider to track non-permanent data, such as cursor position, user names, and colors [1][2]. Additionally, version 1.3.7 supports an awarenessStateFilter option [4][6]. This is useful for filtering which awareness states result in rendered cursors (e.g., to hide your own cursor when multiple tabs are open) [6]. Example of filtering: yCursorPlugin(provider.awareness, { awarenessStateFilter: (_,, user) => user.id!== getAuthUserId, }) [6] Note that the cursorBuilder function signature in the source includes both the user object and the clientId, which can be used for more granular control [4].
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Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/yjs/y-prosemirror/blob/master/README.md
- 2: https://npmx.dev/package/y-prosemirror/v/%5E1.3.7
- 3: https://www.npmjs.com/package/y-prosemirror
- 4: https://app.unpkg.com/y-prosemirror@1.3.7/files/dist/src/plugins/cursor-plugin.d.ts
- 5: https://github.com/yjs/y-prosemirror
- 6: GitHub pull request 140 in yjs/y-prosemirror (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
Normalize Yjs 13 cursor users before rendering. If a remote awareness user omits color, y-prosemirror@1.3.7 passes it to cursors.cursorBuilder, whose default renderer calls isDarkColor(user.color) and then bgColor.charAt(0). This throws a TypeError. If name is absent, the cursor label receives undefined. Apply the same fallbacks as the Yjs 14 path.
🐛 Proposed fix
- cursorBuilder: cursors.cursorBuilder,
+ cursorBuilder(user, clientID) {
+ return cursors.cursorBuilder(
+ {
+ ...user,
+ name: user.name ?? "Anonymous",
+ color: user.color ?? "`#ffa500`",
+ },
+ clientID,
+ );
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| cursorBuilder: cursors.cursorBuilder, | |
| cursorBuilder(user, clientID) { | |
| return cursors.cursorBuilder( | |
| { | |
| ...user, | |
| name: user.name ?? "Anonymous", | |
| color: user.color ?? "#ffa500", | |
| }, | |
| clientID, | |
| ); | |
| }, |
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In `@packages/core/src/yjs/extensions/YCursorPlugin.ts` at line 33, Normalize
remote awareness users before passing them to cursors.cursorBuilder in the Yjs
13 path, applying the same name and color fallbacks used by the Yjs 14 path.
Ensure missing color never reaches the renderer and missing name produces the
established fallback label.
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In `@packages/core/src/extensions/Collaboration/cursor.ts`:
- Line 181: Guard ResizeObserver construction in YCursorExtension by checking
window.ResizeObserver before instantiating it, and make the observe and
disconnect calls conditional when unavailable. Preserve the existing
updatePositions behavior in environments that support ResizeObserver.
- Around line 95-96: Update positionLabel to keep the fixed collaboration label
within the viewport: place it below the caret when there is insufficient space
above, and shift it left when the label would extend past the right edge. Add
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| // Capture scroll events from nested tables as well as outer scrollers. | ||
| root.addEventListener("scroll", updatePositions, true); | ||
| if (root !== document) { | ||
| document.addEventListener("scroll", updatePositions, true); | ||
| } | ||
| window.addEventListener("resize", updatePositions); | ||
| root.addEventListener("load", updatePositions, true); | ||
| const resizeObserver = new ResizeObserver(updatePositions); |
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Oh, am I misunderstanding something here. Why do we need to listen to events now? Does this have to do with the element not "following" for scrolls and stuff?
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This is to do with rendering the label at editor.portalRoot instead of inline. While that fixes any overflow issues within the editor like with tables described in the original issue, it basically detaches the label's positioning from the decoration which creates the cursor. But yea the listeners are not a great solution, I've now replaced them with CSS anchors.
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| plugin: new Plugin({ | ||
| view(initialView) { | ||
| sync(initialView); | ||
| return { | ||
| update: sync, | ||
| destroy() { | ||
| for (const cursor of cursors.values()) { | ||
| hideCursor(cursor); | ||
| cursor.label?.remove(); | ||
| } | ||
| cursors.clear(); | ||
| view = undefined; | ||
| }, | ||
| }; | ||
| }, | ||
| }), |
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If I'm getting this right, this plugin is needed because cursorBuilder will tell you only what to render but does not give you any sort of indication when to stop rendering. So you are using this plugin to reconcile the labels you've attached to the portal element with the current awareness states.So, if I understand this correctly, I think there might be another way about this without a ProseMirror plugin:
We could instead listen for awareness state changes directly and do clean up of awareness peers that are no longer relevant. Then on cursorBuilder we can just always create elements and if there exists a label that has the same clientID as the one we are creating we can just update that label element and re-use it (or even detach it if we want to bring in a new one without having worry about updating all the attributes like name and color). I think this will end up simplifying this to not have to use a ProseMirror plugin, and remove the need for this whole synchronization process.
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Summary
This PR fixes an issue with the collaboration cursor label getting cut off by elements in the editor which clip overflow. To fix this, the labels are rendered under
editor.portalElement(conflict with changes in #3052, will need updating), so that onlyeditor.portalElementcan clip them. Then, FloatingUI is used to flip the label orientation when one is clipped. This does require a FloatingUI dependency incore, but only@floating-ui/dom.Closes #3079
Rationale
This is a bug.
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editor.portalElement.Impact
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core- increased bundle size.Testing
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