Editor almost unusable after replacing everything with a horizontal line

[mariohamann]

What happens?

I selected the editor's content and replaced it with a horizontal rule. The "text-cursor" disappeared, I couldn't write anything and therefore the editor wasn't usable anymore. (CMD-Z helped – and the cursors of other users in collaboration mode...)

How can others reproduce the issue?

1. Go to next.tiptap.dev
2. Replace the whole content with a horizontal rule

[philippkuehn]

Hey,

it’s a horizontal rule (hr), not a line break. but you are right. there are some strange behaviors for block nodes without text content in ProseMirror.

tip: you can always create a node selection with cmd+click. you can see an added class to that DOM element. after that you can press backspace to remove that selected node. but that’s not obvious.

what would you expect in such a case?

[mariohamann]

Chrm. Don't know why I've written "line break". 😂

Hm. Good question. I will think about it and will have a look in other editors.

[mariohamann]

I had a look in TinyMCE and it matches my thoughts: The easiest and in my opinion most intuitive way is to add a paragraph after every hr, as shown in the following GIF:

This allows to go on with writing or to delete the line with backspace.