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@portabletext/block-tools

v1.1.15

Published

Can format HTML, Slate JSON or Sanity block array into any other format.

Downloads

422,671

Readme

@portabletext/block-tools

Various tools for processing Portable Text.

NOTE: To use @portabletext/block-tools in a Node.js script, you will need to provide a parseHtml method - generally using JSDOM. Read more.

Example

Let's start with a complete example:

import {getBlockContentFeatures, htmlToBlocks} from '@portabletext/block-tools'
import {Schema} from '@sanity/schema'

// Start with compiling a schema we can work against
const defaultSchema = Schema.compile({
  name: 'myBlog',
  types: [
    {
      type: 'object',
      name: 'blogPost',
      fields: [
        {
          title: 'Title',
          type: 'string',
          name: 'title',
        },
        {
          title: 'Body',
          name: 'body',
          type: 'array',
          of: [{type: 'block'}],
        },
      ],
    },
  ],
})

// The compiled schema type for the content type that holds the block array
const blockContentType = defaultSchema
  .get('blogPost')
  .fields.find((field) => field.name === 'body').type

// Convert HTML to block array
const blocks = htmlToBlocks(
  '<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1><body></html>',
  blockContentType,
)
// Outputs
//
//  {
//    _type: 'block',
//    style: 'h1'
//    children: [
//      {
//        _type: 'span'
//        text: 'Hello world!'
//      }
//    ]
//  }

// Get the feature-set of a blockContentType
const features = getBlockContentFeatures(blockContentType)

Methods

htmlToBlocks(html, blockContentType, options) (html deserializer)

This will deserialize the input html (string) into blocks.

Params

html

The stringified version of the HTML you are importing

blockContentType

A compiled version of the block content schema type.

The deserializer will respect the schema when deserializing the HTML elements to blocks.

It only supports a subset of HTML tags. Any HTML tag not in the block-tools whitelist will be deserialized to normal blocks/spans.

For instance, if the schema doesn't allow H2 styles, all H2 HTML elements will be output like this:

{
  _type: 'block',
  style: 'normal'
  children: [
    {
      _type: 'span'
      text: 'Hello world!'
    }
  ]
}
options (optional)
parseHtml

The HTML-deserialization is done by default by the browser's native DOMParser. On the server side you can give the function parseHtml that parses the html into a DOMParser compatible model / API.

JSDOM example
const {JSDOM} = require('jsdom')
const {htmlToBlocks} = require('@portabletext/block-tools')

const blocks = htmlToBlocks(
  '<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1><body></html>',
  blockContentType,
  {
    parseHtml: (html) => new JSDOM(html).window.document,
  },
)
rules

You may add your own rules to deal with special HTML cases.

htmlToBlocks(
  '<html><body><pre><code>const foo = "bar"</code></pre></body></html>',
  blockContentType,
  {
    parseHtml: (html) => new JSDOM(html),
    rules: [
      // Special rule for code blocks
      {
        deserialize(el, next, block) {
          if (el.tagName.toLowerCase() != 'pre') {
            return undefined
          }
          const code = el.children[0]
          const childNodes =
            code && code.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'code'
              ? code.childNodes
              : el.childNodes
          let text = ''
          childNodes.forEach((node) => {
            text += node.textContent
          })
          // Return this as an own block (via block helper function), instead of appending it to a default block's children
          return block({
            _type: 'code',
            language: 'javascript',
            text: text,
          })
        },
      },
    ],
  },
)

normalizeBlock(block, [options={}])

Normalize a block object structure to make sure it has what it needs.

import {normalizeBlock} from '@portabletext/block-tools'

const partialBlock = {
  _type: 'block',
  children: [
    {
      _type: 'span',
      text: 'Foobar',
      marks: ['strong', 'df324e2qwe'],
    },
  ],
}
normalizeBlock(partialBlock, {allowedDecorators: ['strong']})

Will produce

{
  _key: 'randomKey0',
  _type: 'block',
  children: [
    {
      _key: 'randomKey00',
      _type: 'span',
      marks: ['strong'],
      text: 'Foobar'
    }
  ],
  markDefs: []
}

getBlockContentFeatures(blockContentType)

Will return an object with the features enabled for the input block content type.

{
  annotations: [{title: 'Link', value: 'link'}],
  decorators: [
    {title: 'Strong', value: 'strong'},
    {title: 'Emphasis', value: 'em'},
    {title: 'Code', value: 'code'},
    {title: 'Underline', value: 'underline'},
    {title: 'Strike', value: 'strike-through'}
  ],
  styles: [
    {title: 'Normal', value: 'normal'},
    {title: 'Heading 1', value: 'h1'},
    {title: 'H2', value: 'h2'},
    {title: 'H3', value: 'h3'},
    {title: 'H4', value: 'h4'},
    {title: 'H5', value: 'h5'},
    {title: 'H6', value: 'h6'},
    {title: 'Quote', value: 'blockquote'}
  ]
}