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Fixes #30202

  • Why are you making it?
    Users on mobile devices are unable to add hyperlinks or format text using the Ghost editor because the formatting toolbar (FloatingFormatToolbar) fails to appear after making a text selection.
  • What does it do?
    It adds a debounced selectionchange event listener to FloatingFormatToolbar that tracks mobile touch selections correctly. It also tracks isMouseDown to ensure that it continues to ignore text selections that happen during a desktop mouse drag, preserving the original anti-flicker behavior.
  • Why is this something Ghost users or developers need?
    It brings back core formatting functionality (like adding links and bolding text) for users managing their posts on mobile devices.

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- Added a `selectionchange` event listener to `FloatingFormatToolbar`
- Debounced the listener to prevent flickering and ignored it during desktop mouse drags
- Fixes TryGhost#30202
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40-40: LGTM!

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FloatingFormatToolbar tracks mouse dragging and removes the unused event argument from its visibility callback. A debounced selectionchange listener reveals the toolbar for non-collapsed selections after dragging ends. Cleanup removes the document listeners. FloatingToolbar receives explicit positioning props.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b02a9

This change restores mobile text-selection formatting controls, but there remains a bounded risk of the floating toolbar appearing prematurely during a drag or after cleanup due to selection event timing.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: restoring the formatting toolbar for mobile text selection. The bug emoji does not obscure the meaning.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the mobile formatting toolbar issue, the implementation, and the related issue. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes add debounced selection handling and preserve mouse-drag behavior, which addresses issue #30202 by restoring link and formatting actions after text selection on mobile devices.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to FloatingFormatToolbar behavior and directly support the mobile text-selection objective in issue #30202. No unrelated changes are shown.
Type-Safe Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes FloatingFormatToolbar to handle browser selection and mouse events, then reads the existing Lexical editor state. It does not consume HTTP, SDK, environment, database, filesyste…
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koenig/koenig-lexical/src/components/ui/FloatingFormatToolbar.tsx-46-50 (1)

46-50: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the mouse-drag flag stable across effect re-runs.

FloatingToolbarPlugin.tsx can update toolbarItemType from selectionchange while the selection changes. This reruns the effect and resets isMouseDown before mouseup. The debounced handler can then reveal the toolbar during the drag.

Store the flag in a React.useRef outside this effect.

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In `@koenig/koenig-lexical/src/components/ui/FloatingFormatToolbar.tsx` around
lines 46 - 50, Move the isMouseDown flag used by the FloatingFormatToolbar
effect’s onMouseDown, onMouseUp, and debounced-handler logic into a React.useRef
declared outside the effect, so its value remains stable when selection changes
rerun the effect and the toolbar stays hidden until mouseup.
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67-88: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cancel the pending debounced callback during cleanup.

lodash/debounce schedules a trailing callback by default, and removeEventListener does not cancel it. If the effect reruns within 10 ms, the stale callback can update the current toolbarRef opacity. Call onSelectionChange.cancel() during cleanup.

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In `@koenig/koenig-lexical/src/components/ui/FloatingFormatToolbar.tsx` around
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In `@koenig/koenig-lexical/src/components/ui/FloatingFormatToolbar.tsx`:
- Around line 46-50: Move the isMouseDown flag used by the FloatingFormatToolbar
effect’s onMouseDown, onMouseUp, and debounced-handler logic into a React.useRef
declared outside the effect, so its value remains stable when selection changes
rerun the effect and the toolbar stays hidden until mouseup.
- Around line 67-88: Update the cleanup function in the effect containing
onSelectionChange to call onSelectionChange.cancel() before removing the event
listeners, ensuring any pending debounced callback cannot run after cleanup.

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- Around line 67-77: Update the debounced onSelectionChange handler in
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showToolbarIfHidden callback, using a ref or stable debounced callback rather
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87-87: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major

Preserve a pending selection update when the toolbar state changes.

showToolbarIfHidden changes identity with toolbarItemType, so this effect is recreated when the selection flow changes the toolbar from null to text. If the 10 ms selectionchange debounce is pending, onSelectionChange.cancel() removes the only callback that reveals the toolbar. The new effect does not replay the existing selection, so FloatingToolbar can mount with opacity 0 and remain hidden.

Keep the debounced listener stable across toolbarItemType changes and call the latest visibility callback through a ref, or replay the current non-collapsed selection after the new toolbar mounts. Verify this with a regression test that changes toolbarItemType before the debounce fires and asserts that the toolbar opacity becomes 1.

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87, Keep the debounced selection listener stable when toolbarItemType changes
instead of cancelling a pending onSelectionChange callback; route the listener
through a ref to the latest showToolbarIfHidden callback, or replay the current
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- Line 87: Keep the debounced selection listener stable when toolbarItemType
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listener through a ref to the latest showToolbarIfHidden callback, or replay the
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