Bug(?): New paragraph nodes do not follow the alignment of previous paragraphs.

[michaelsoultanidis]

New paragraphs created using the Enter key do not follow the same alignment as the previous paragraph. I'm not sure if this is a bug or done intentionally.

Lexical version: Latest

Steps To Reproduce

1. Right-align an existing paragraph.
2. Press enter to create a new paragraph.

Screen.Recording.2023-05-08.at.1.09.40.PM.mov

[AndreyGalchevski]

I was wondering the same thing.
It's worth noting though that when using an RTL language (Hebrew for example), the selected alignment is persisted.

[arielyz]

@michaelsoultanidis did you end up solving it? I'm experiencing the same issue.

[ivailop7]

You can use Shift+Enter for the moment, since it adds in the same paragraph this way vs a new paragraph with default alignment of 'left'. I agree this should be amended. Not sure on what the best approach here is, looking at the previous node does seem reasonable, but should be discussed.

[arielyz]

Thanks @ivailop7. How does copying the previous paragraph style work then (e.g. font-color)? Both text-alignment and font-color are CSS properties of the TextNode.

[ivailop7]

I believer you are correct, yes, either it's missing a property in the place where it carries over the font style, which should be a simple fix or other logic overrides it.