To flatten a nested list

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I am building an editor that allows only flat lists (no nesting) with ‘block’ (list items cannot be more than one block) content.

I couldn’t get the correct pasting behavior via schema and parseDOM. Having ‘block’ as content in the schema deletes all the nested lists while pasting. ‘block*’ will allow multi block lists while pasting. ‘inline*’ will convert all the nested lists into inline.

My current solution is to modify the transaction and not do this via schema. Its working fine. Is this the best way?

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Forbidding list nesting with the schema should be easy enough—just make sure list nodes don’t match the content of list items.

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Thanks for the response. I still can’t get it to behave properly.

As you said, removing nesting alone is trivial. ‘block*’ itself can take care of it. But, these nested list items will be inserted as ‘paragraph’ items. I need them to become list items as my list items can have only one block.

Maybe I am missing something here as I’ve been tinkering around for only a week. But, my current solution is quite convoluted - involves modifying the transaction and handling the ‘Enter’ key separately - ugh!