How to drag external text into particular index inside the textable component?
Hi @artf , When I drag external content inside the editor it should be dropped at specific position but it is overlapping the existing content in the component. So is there any way where I can place text at the specific position without getting overlapped? FYI, I am using canvas:dragdata for the getting the external c...
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GrapesJS version [X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Chrome Reproducible demo link NA Describe the bug How to reproduce the bug?...... What is the expected behavior? ... When I drag external content inside the editor it should be dropped at specific position What is the current behavior? ... It is getting dropped at the position but it is overlapping the text that is already present in the component If is necessary to execute some code in order to reproduce the bug, paste it here below: Code of Conduct [X] I agree to follow this project's Code of Co...
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Hi @artf , When I drag external content inside the editor it should be dropped at specific position but it is overlapping the existing content in the component. So is there any way where I can place text at the specific position without getting overlapped? FYI, I am using canvas:dragdata for the ge...
@siddhi1397 please don't open bug issues as features/questions
Okay sorry for that. @artf But can you please help with how can this be implemented?
The issue you're encountering, where external text dragged into a GrapesJS textable component "overlaps" existing text instead of inserting at a specific position, stems from the default drag-and-drop handling within ProseMirror, which GrapesJS uses for its rich text editor (RTE). By default, Prose...
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