tiptap/docs/api/nodes/mention.md

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description: Ping all your people @marijn @kevin
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# Mention
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Honestly, the mention node is amazing. It adds support for `@mentions`, for example to ping users, *and* provides full control over the rendering.

Literally everything can be customized. You can pass a custom component for the rendering.  All examples use `.filter()` to search through items, but feel free to send async queries to an API or add a more advanced library like [fuse.js](https://fusejs.io/) to your project.

## Installation
```bash
npm install @tiptap/extension-mention
```

## Dependencies
To place the popups correctly, we’re using [tippy.js](https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/) in all our examples. You are free to bring your own library, but if you’re fine with it, just install what we use:

```bash
npm install tippy.js
```

Since 2.0.0-beta.193 we marked the `@tiptap/suggestion` as a peer dependency. That means, you will need to install it manually.

```bash
npm install @tiptap/suggestion
```

## Settings

### HTMLAttributes
Custom HTML attributes that should be added to the rendered HTML tag.

```js
Mention.configure({
  HTMLAttributes: {
    class: 'my-custom-class',
  },
})
```

### renderText
Define how a mention text should be rendered.

```js
Mention.configure({
  renderText({ options, node }) {
    return `${options.suggestion.char}${node.attrs.label ?? node.attrs.id}`
  }
})
```

### renderHTML
Define how a mention html element should be rendered, this is useful if you want to render an element other than `span` (e.g `a`)

```js
Mention.configure({
  renderHTML({ options, node }) {
    return [
      "a",
      mergeAttributes({ href: '/profile/1' }, options.HTMLAttributes),
      `${options.suggestion.char}${node.attrs.label ?? node.attrs.id}`,
      ];
  }
})
```
### suggestion
[Read more](/api/utilities/suggestion)

```js
Mention.configure({
  suggestion: {
    // …
  },
})
```

## Source code
[packages/extension-mention/](https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/blob/main/packages/extension-mention/)

## Usage
https://embed.tiptap.dev/preview/Nodes/Mention