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Enter, newline, and down arrow broken on Android #3001

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@samkline

What’s broken?

Using the enter key on Android has some weird behavior: you never get a new line, sometimes you get a space, sometimes it breaks a table, sometimes it shifts the placeholder/ghost text. Similar with the down arrow key: the cursor does not get moved down to the next line.

I can reproduce this on desktop Chrome and Firefox when emulating a mobile device with devtools only if it was emulating the mobile device at page load, and it stays broken after exiting mobile device emulation. Thus I believe this is triggered by some platform-detection by BlockNote rather than any true mobile text-editing bug.

Screen_recording_20260822_102935.mp4

What did you expect to happen?

The enter key and down arrow should insert newlines or move down, respectively.

Steps to reproduce

On Android:

  1. Navigate to https://www.blocknotejs.org/demo
  2. Focus editor and hit enter

On desktop Chrome/Firefox:

  1. Open devtools, emulate a mobile device
  2. Navigate to https://www.blocknotejs.org/demo
  3. Focus editor and hit enter

BlockNote version

Latest; reproduced on @blocknote/shadcn 0.52, 0.53, 0.54.

Environment

Android 10; desktop Chrome/Firefox on Linux and MacOS in mobile emulation mode

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    on Aug 22, 2026
  2. badgone88 commented on Aug 27, 2026

    @badgone88

    I can confirm the issue (I'm using BlockNote in a note-taking app I developed myself—running on Docker):

    • In the PWA version (Chrome on Android): on an empty block, pressing the "Enter" key inserts a space instead of creating a new block. If there is already text in the block, pressing Enter does nothing.

    • Same issue on the BlockNote demo (Android - Firefox, Chrome)

    • This issue does not occur in the iOS PWA version (Safari). The Enter key creates a new block as expected.

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