How can we Remove AutoJoin for a Node?

[markc]

Hello all!!

What is the best way to remove the AutoJoin functionality for a given Node? We have found it to be an unexpected behaviour for two instances of a Node that we don’t want to join even when side-by-side in the document.

Automatic joining of lists, blockquotes, and similar

Many WYSIWYG editors will automatically join adjacent lists or other kinds of nodes on some operations. They, for the most part, seem to allow adjacent but separate lists, but many actions, such as creating or pasting a list item, will join the list to the one above (but not below, in Google Docs). This has the advantage that it is usually what the user meant – actual adjacent lists are a rare thing (but do come up). It has the disadvantage of being somewhat magical. I initially thought that h…

https://prosemirror.net/docs/ref/#commands.autoJoin

[marijn]

That command-wrapper will only take effect if you explicitly use it in your keymap, so there is nothing you have to do to remove it (except not using it).

[markc]

I think my question came across a little unclear. I’m under the impression that automatic list-joining is a default in ProseMirror, as I didn’t have to additionally configure the editor to get that behaviour.

This is what I get on the initial render for this content.

const content = `
    <multipleChoiceQuestion>
        <multipleChoiceOption>Apples</multipleChoiceOption>
        <multipleChoiceOption>Oranges</multipleChoiceOption>
        <multipleChoiceOption>Bananas</multipleChoiceOption>
    </multipleChoiceQuestion>
    <multipleChoiceQuestion>
        <multipleChoiceOption>Apples</multipleChoiceOption>
        <multipleChoiceOption>Oranges</multipleChoiceOption>
        <multipleChoiceOption>Bananas</multipleChoiceOption>
    </multipleChoiceQuestion>
`

And I am expecting it to look like this:

[marijn]

It is not the default, and it definitely doesn’t happen during parsing.

[markc]

Ok, I’ll come up with a minimal sandbox to reproduce this behaviour. I’m still unclear why this is happening.