Forced layout

1

Is there a way to do something like forced layout with ProseMirror? Or even better, read-only parts of a document, where for example section titles would be fixed, but the rest would be editable?

2

Yes, ProseMirror can do these things. You’d use schema constraints to enforce the document starting with a heading, and if you want to make a node non-editable, you’d make it a leaf node and render it as uneditable content.

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3

Amazing, thanks!

4

@marijn i’m trying to understand your suggestion and looking at the docs for content expressions, I thought it should be just as simple as this:

new Schema({
  nodes: {
    text: {},
    title: {
      content: "text",
      toDOM() { return ["title", 0] },
      parseDOM: [{tag: "title"}]
    },
    body: {
      content: "text+",
      toDOM() { return ["body", 0] },
      parseDOM: [{tag: "body"}]
    },
    doc: {
      content: "title body+"
    }
  }
})

But this doesn’t exactly work – care to elaborate on how one can do this?

5

You’ll want "text*", not "text" or "text+". Also the body and title HTML tags already have a fixed meaning, so you can’t use them like that.