Block Menu

Provides quick access to block-specific actions.

Block Context MenuBlock MenuBlock Context Menu
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Files
components/demo.tsx
'use client';

import React from 'react';

import { Plate } from '@udecode/plate-common/react';

import { editorPlugins } from '@/components/editor/plugins/editor-plugins';
import { useCreateEditor } from '@/components/editor/use-create-editor';
import { Editor, EditorContainer } from '@/components/plate-ui/editor';

import { DEMO_VALUES } from './values/demo-values';

export function Demo({ id }: { id: string }) {
  const editor = useCreateEditor({
    plugins: [...editorPlugins],
    value: DEMO_VALUES[id],
  });

  return (
    <Plate editor={editor}>
      <EditorContainer variant="demo">
        <Editor />
      </EditorContainer>
    </Plate>
  );
}

Features

  • Right-click on a block to open the menu.
  • Allows you to perform actions on blocks such as turn into, duplicating or deleting.
  • Customizable menu items and actions.
  • Keyboard navigation

Installation

npm install @udecode/plate-selection @udecode/plate-node-id

Usage

import { BlockMenuPlugin } from '@udecode/plate-selection/react';
import { NodeIdPlugin } from '@udecode/plate-node-id';
const plugins = [
  // ...otherPlugins,
  NodeIdPlugin,
  BlockSelectionPlugin.configure({
    options: {
      enableContextMenu: true,
    },
  }),
  BlockMenuPlugin.configure({
    render: { aboveEditable: BlockContextMenu },
  }),
]

To control the opening of the context menu for specific elements, you can use the data-plate-open-context-menu attribute:

<PlateElement data-plate-open-context-menu={false} {...props}>
  {children}
</PlateElement>

Generally, we only need to prevent right-clicking on the padding of the <Editor />.

Examples

Plate UI

Refer to the preview above.

Plate Plus

Plugins

BlockMenuPlugin

Block menu state management.

API

editor.api.blockMenu.hide

Hides the block menu.

editor.api.blockMenu.show

Shows the block menu for a specific block.

Parameters

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    The ID of the block to show the menu for.

    The position to show the menu at.

editor.api.blockMenu.showContextMenu

Shows the context menu for a specific block.

Parameters

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    The ID of the block to show the context menu for.

    The position to show the context menu at.

Basic MarksBlock Selection