[Bug]: insertContent does nothing if the requested content already exists at the position

[Nantris]

Which packages did you experience the bug in?

core

What Tiptap version are you using?

2.1.0-rc.12

What’s the bug you are facing?

I'd expect that insertContent('<p></p>') inside of an empty paragraph would result in another paragraph, but instead it does nothing. This indeterminacy makes building more complex commands difficult because you can't rely on insertContent to do the same thing under all circumstances.

What browser are you using?

Chrome

Code example

No response

What did you expect to happen?

insertContent('<p></p>') inside of an empty paragraph should insert another empty paragraph.

Anything to add? (optional)

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• Yes, I’ve updated my dependencies to use the latest version of all packages.

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[Nantris]

This is debatably already the correct behavior. It can be worked around by using insertContentAt instead to target a bounding position rather than a text position. I think it's a little wonky though.

[bdbch]

I'm not sure about that – I guess the reason why nothing happens is because the Prosemirror schema will disallow a paragraph inside a paragraph and will just not insert it?

When would you add a new node and when would you just disallow adding content?

[Nantris]

It seems perhaps like that's not the cause. My rationale is that I've found if you have any content in the paragraph then invoking insertContent('<p></p>') inserts the expected paragraph. It only has this issue on completely empty paragraphs.

It's almost like it thinks it's already inserted the paragraph because it already finds one there. With that in mind, I don't know that there's any time that insertion should be disallowed. I'm not really sure what the cause is though.