# Inserted custom block nodes don't influence on selection
**URL:** https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 1, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454 "2018-08-01T11:57:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@maximka777](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/maximka777)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454/1 "2018-08-01T11:57:26Z")
I have such custom block node schema:
```
const imageNodeSpec = {
attrs: {
src: {},
alt: {
default: null
}
},
inline: false,
group: 'block',
draggable: true,
parseDOM: [{
tag: 'div[image-with-description]',
getAttrs(dom) {
const image = dom.querySelector('img[src]');
return {
src: image.getAttribute('src'),
alt: image.getAttribute('alt')
};
}
}],
toDOM(node) {
return [
'div',
{
class: 'image-with-description-container',
'image-with-description': true
},
[
'img',
{
...node.attrs,
class: 'image'
},
],
[
'p',
{
class: 'image-description'
},
node.attrs.alt
]
];
}
};
```
It’s an image with description under it.
Each insertion of this node is occurred at the beginning.
If editor is empty and we insert such nodes then **each time we will have position index 1**.
Insertion is occured this way:
```
const tr = view.state.tr;
if (!tr.selection.empty) {
tr.deleteSelection();
}
view.dispatch(tr.replaceSelectionWith(type.createAndFill({
...attributes,
src: image.url
})));
```
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### Author:  [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454/2 "2018-08-01T12:11:06Z")
Since your schema probably doesn’t allow a completely empty document, what does the document look like after you run that command? And where did you expect the selection to be?
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### Author:  [@maximka777](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/maximka777)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454/3 "2018-08-01T12:23:36Z")
After I inserted my custom node I have cursor after inserted element, but in state of editor it’s before inserted element. I can increment it on 1 in debug mode (when I insert second node, if I insert 3rd node I should increment on 2 and so on) and new node will be inserted in correct place.
I don’t know how to show my document so there is screenshot 🙂
There are two custom nodes in a paragraph element.
And each time selection position will be 1 if I insert new nodes.
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### Author:  [@maximka777](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/maximka777)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454/4 "2018-08-01T13:46:11Z")
I think I found the problem: when I click on dropdown item in menu to upload image it focuses on the first element in editor and inserts here new node (sometimes replaces the 1st node).
**Updated** : No, I made mistake, it’s still not working.
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### Author:  [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454/5 "2018-08-02T07:18:15Z")
How come the images are rendered inside a paragraph in the DOM, though they are block nodes? That seems suspicious.
To look at the actual document, you can run `view.state.doc.toString()`.
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### Author:  [@maximka777](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/maximka777)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2018, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454/6 "2018-08-02T07:44:28Z")
It’s a document with two custom nodes:
`"doc(image, image, paragraph)"`
`image` - name of my custom node.
The last paragraph it’s an empty line.
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### Author:  [@maximka777](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/maximka777)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2018, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/inserted-custom-block-nodes-dont-influence-on-selection/1454/7 "2018-08-02T07:55:01Z")
I think the problem was in my application it was refreshing the editor and changing cursor position. I fixed it and nodes are inserted correctly now.
Thanks for your answers 🙂