Undo not working properly on InsertHTML in text block
Hi @DhanaDSP1120 yeah unfortunately that is expected from rte.insertHTML as it uses a custom insertion. If you need to preserve the native editing undo stack you can use this API
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GrapesJS version [X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? chrome v107 Reproducible demo link https://jsfiddle.net/4vacxuw2/2/ Describe the bug I added an custom toolbar to insert some value in current position through rte.insertHTML options ,it works good. But when try to undo (ctrl+z) the newly inserted HTML block was not removed Code of Conduct [X] I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct
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Hi @DhanaDSP1120 yeah unfortunately that is expected from rte.insertHTML as it uses a custom insertion. If you need to preserve the native editing undo stack you can use this API
rte.exec('insertHTML', `<span ...`)
Thanks for reporting this, @DhanaDSP1120. The issue with Undo not working properly on InsertHTML in text block appears to be a race condition or state management timing problem. This typically happens when component lifecycle events and DOM modifications overlap, creating an inconsistent state. Wha...
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