Quickest way to wrap just selected text in a block?

I know there is probably a way to do this easily, however I am getting tripped up with transforms and selections.

I know about wrapBlock() however it wraps the entire block and not just the selection. I desire functionality like wrapInline() where only the portion of the block that is in the selection is wrapped. How might I accomplish this in a single transform?

[tyler-johnson]

Ah yes the .splitBlockAtRange(selection.collapseToEnd()) is what I believe I was missing. I will make another attempt at this tomorrow. I am still a novice at this immutability stuff and it didn’t occur to me that I could transform the content without moving the selection around. Thanks.

As for the use case, I am looking for alternative ways to solve #178. I was thinking that perhaps the popup could be embedded in the document next to the inline text it is linked to. Since the popup content will require block nodes, I assumed that all the parent nodes would need to be block nodes as well. Truthfully an Inline node would fit better. So I guess this leads to another question: Can Inline nodes contain Block nodes as children?

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Personally I think the functionality of wrapBlock and wrapInline are to be expected as the documentation describes them as “Wrap the {Inline/Block} nodes in the current selection”. To me that says that no splitting of blocks or inlines will take place at the selection boundaries and new nodes will simply wrap the existing ones. Additionally, it makes sense that wrapInline would split Text nodes when there are no inline nodes to wrap. I would expect the same functionality from wrapBlock if the document just had text nodes but it seems like documents always contain blocks.

Perhaps you could add two new methods with names like wrapRangeWithBlock and wrapRangeWithInline? Interestingly these could have the added benefit of wrapping inside the current block or inline instead of wrapping on the outside (assuming that’s how wrapBlock and wrapInline work currently).

[tyler-johnson]

Okay no problem thanks for clarifying this!