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Part of #2771

Problem

The suggestion menu listens to every scroll in the editor, including the scroll of the menu itself. Each scroll of the menu recomputed the menu's position and re-rendered it. Near the bottom of the screen, where the menu has little room, the menu could not be scrolled to its end.

Fix

Ignore a scroll of an element that does not contain the trigger character. Only such a scroll can move the trigger on screen. Page scrolls, and scrolls of a container around the trigger, still update the menu's position.

This fixes scrolling with the mouse. The menu still opens squeezed below the trigger when there is little room there; a separate PR changes the placement.

Tests

suggestionMenuScroll.test.tsx:

  • Scrolling the menu does not update the menu's state. Fails without the fix in chromium, firefox and webkit.
  • Scrolling the page still updates it.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Scrolling within the suggestion menu no longer triggers unnecessary position updates. Scrolling the page continues to update the menu’s position.
  • Tests
    • Added browser tests covering suggestion-menu behavior when scrolling the menu and the page.

The scroll listener captures every scroll in the editor, including the
menu's own. Each one recomputed the menu's position and re-rendered it,
so a menu with little room could not be scrolled to its end. Only a
scroll of an element that contains the trigger can move it.

Part of #2771
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The suggestion menu now ignores scroll events from targets that do not contain its decoration. Browser tests verify that scrolling the menu causes no store updates and scrolling the document causes at least one.

Changes: Suggestion menu scroll handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filter scroll events and verify updates
packages/core/src/extensions/SuggestionMenu/SuggestionMenu.ts, tests/src/end-to-end/slashmenu/suggestionMenuScroll.test.tsx
The scroll handler returns without updating when the event target does not contain the suggestion decoration. Browser tests check menu and document scrolling.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2848c

The implementation currently supports scrolling an editor pane, but the tests do not protect that behavior against regression. Adding a pane-scroll test is a bounded follow-up; no current failure is established.

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commit: 2848c63

WebKit delivers the scroll event about a second late, so a fixed
one-second wait could miss it. Wait for the update instead.

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tests/src/end-to-end/slashmenu/suggestionMenuScroll.test.tsx (1)

72-83: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for scrolling a containing ancestor.

The new tests cover only the menu and the document. A scrollable ancestor of the editor can move the trigger and must also update the menu position. Add a test that scrolls such an ancestor and observes a suggestion-menu update.

Suggested fix
+function AncestorScrollingEditor() {
+  editor = useCreateBlockNote({
+    initialContent: Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_, i) => ({
+      type: "paragraph" as const,
+      content: `Paragraph ${i}`,
+    })),
+  });
+  return (
+    <div data-test="ancestor-scroller" style={{ height: 200, overflow: "auto" }}>
+      <BlockNoteView editor={editor} />
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+test("scrolling a containing ancestor updates the slash menu's position", async () => {
+  await render(<AncestorScrollingEditor />);
+  await waitForSelector(".bn-editor");
+  await openSlashMenuAt(80);
+  const counter = countMenuUpdates();
+  const scroller = await waitForSelector("[data-test=ancestor-scroller]");
+
+  scroller.scrollTop += 50;
+  await vi.waitFor(() => expect(counter.updates).toBeGreaterThan(0));
+});
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Review comment at @tests/src/end-to-end/slashmenu/suggestionMenuScroll.test.tsx
around lines 72 - 83:
Add a test alongside the existing document-scroll test that renders an editor
inside a scrollable ancestor, opens the slash menu, scrolls that ancestor, and
asserts the menu update counter increases. Use the existing render,
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@tests/src/end-to-end/slashmenu/suggestionMenuScroll.test.tsx:
- Around line 72-83: Add a test alongside the existing document-scroll test that
renders an editor inside a scrollable ancestor, opens the slash menu, scrolls
that ancestor, and asserts the menu update counter increases. Use the existing
render, menu-opening, selector-waiting, and update-count helpers.

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