fix: preserve attributes of toggled node #3644 (#5489)

I only feel comfortable copying the attributes of the current node if the selection is only within a single node (I don't know what is expected if you had a selection of multiple nodes, the intersection of the attributes maybe?)

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Co-authored-by: Dominik Biedebach <dominik.biedebach@tiptap.dev>

.changeset/metal-shrimps-press.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@tiptap/core": patch
+---
+
+Copy over node attributes on node toggling (for example to keep text styles while toggling a headline)

demos/src/Extensions/TextAlign/React/index.jsx

@@ -58,7 +58,21 @@ export default () => {
           >
             Justify
           </button>
-          <button onClick={() => editor.chain().focus().unsetTextAlign().run()}>Unset text align</button>
+          <button onClick={() => editor.chain().focus().unsetTextAlign().run()}>
+            Unset text align
+          </button>
+          <button
+            onClick={() => editor.chain().focus().toggleHeading({ level: 1 }).run()}
+            className={editor.isActive({ level: 1 }) ? 'is-active' : ''}
+          >
+            Toggle H1
+          </button>
+          <button
+            onClick={() => editor.chain().focus().toggleHeading({ level: 2 }).run()}
+            className={editor.isActive({ level: 2 }) ? 'is-active' : ''}
+          >
+            Toggle H2
+          </button>
         </div>
       </div>
       <EditorContent editor={editor} />

demos/src/Extensions/TextAlign/React/index.spec.js

@@ -37,6 +37,21 @@ context('/src/Extensions/TextAlign/React/', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it('should keep the text aligned when toggling headings', () => {
+    const alignments = ['center', 'right', 'justify']
+    const headings = [1, 2]
+
+    cy.get('.tiptap').then(([{ editor }]) => {
+      alignments.forEach(alignment => {
+        headings.forEach(level => {
+          editor.commands.setContent(`<p style="text-align: ${alignment}">Example Text</p>`)
+          editor.commands.toggleHeading({ level })
+          expect(editor.getHTML()).to.eq(`<h${level} style="text-align: ${alignment}">Example Text</h${level}>`)
+        })
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
   it('aligns the text left on the 1st button', () => {
     cy.get('button:nth-child(1)').click()
 

demos/src/Extensions/TextAlign/Vue/index.spec.js

@@ -37,6 +37,21 @@ context('/src/Extensions/TextAlign/Vue/', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it('should keep the text aligned when toggling headings', () => {
+    const alignments = ['center', 'right', 'justify']
+    const headings = [1, 2]
+
+    cy.get('.tiptap').then(([{ editor }]) => {
+      alignments.forEach(alignment => {
+        headings.forEach(level => {
+          editor.commands.setContent(`<p style="text-align: ${alignment}">Example Text</p>`)
+          editor.commands.toggleHeading({ level })
+          expect(editor.getHTML()).to.eq(`<h${level} style="text-align: ${alignment}">Example Text</h${level}>`)
+        })
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
   it('aligns the text left on the 1st button', () => {
     cy.get('button:nth-child(1)')
       .click()

packages/core/src/commands/toggleNode.ts

@@ -28,9 +28,18 @@ export const toggleNode: RawCommands['toggleNode'] = (typeOrName, toggleTypeOrNa
   const toggleType = getNodeType(toggleTypeOrName, state.schema)
   const isActive = isNodeActive(state, type, attributes)
 
-  if (isActive) {
+  let attributesToCopy: Record<string, any> | undefined
-    return commands.setNode(toggleType)
+
+  if (state.selection.$anchor.sameParent(state.selection.$head)) {
+    // only copy attributes if the selection is pointing to a node of the same type
+    attributesToCopy = state.selection.$anchor.parent.attrs
   }
 
-  return commands.setNode(type, attributes)
+  if (isActive) {
+    return commands.setNode(toggleType, attributesToCopy)
+  }
+
+  // If the node is not active, we want to set the new node type with the given attributes
+  // Copying over the attributes from the current node if the selection is pointing to a node of the same type
+  return commands.setNode(type, { ...attributesToCopy, ...attributes })
 }