fix(plugin-page-builder): hold the drop target across a switch margin - #829
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A pointer resting near a drop-zone boundary changed target on every small movement, because zones were ranked by the default collision detection and nothing made the zone already held harder to displace than a fresh one. Rank the interleaved zones with a detector of their own. Eligibility is delegated to the default detection unchanged, so no zone starts claiming a pointer it did not claim before; only the ordering among eligible zones is replaced, by the pointer's vertical distance to each zone's centre in pixels, with the current target credited a fixed margin. Every zone reports ONE collision type, and that is what makes the margin reachable at all. `sortCollisions` compares priority, then type, then value, so a detector that reports pointer containment inside a zone and shape overlap outside it changes tier exactly where the pointer crosses a zone edge, and a margin expressed in the value is never consulted there. Priority is passed through untouched, so a zone's container depth still decides between the identical rectangles of a nested container's gap and its parent's. Distance is vertical only: interleaved zones span their container's full width, so the horizontal term is common to every zone competing on value, and folding it in under a square root would stop it cancelling. The two `test.fail` markers on the hysteresis assertions come off in this same commit. `test.fail` inverts a result, so leaving them would turn both canvas specs red on a working implementation and removing them ahead of the change would turn them red for real; neither ordering leaves main green.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a collision policy for canvas insertion targets. It applies a 10px target-switch band, preserves default collision eligibility, wires the detector into non-empty drop zones, and enables related unit and end-to-end tests. ChangesCanvas insertion hysteresis
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A stated limit on the evidence in the descriptionThe 68/68 canvas run shows the control group unchanged for the cases the fixtures reach, and there is one case they do not reach. Recording it here rather than letting the green stand as broader than it is. The canvas currently ranks on two incompatible priority scales: interleaved Where it touches this PR: priority is compared first, so for almost every depth the two kinds are separated before
Unreachable today, which is why nothing failed: grids carry no interleaved gap zones, so the two kinds only meet where a grid sits beside ordinary block flow, and no fixture nests one deep enough to hit the crossover. That is a fixture gap rather than a correctness argument, and it should be read as one. The two-scale defect is filed separately and owned by the lane that shipped #813 ( |
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The switch margin reached only the drop zones interleaved between a slot's children, leaving three other insertion targets on the default ranking: the "drop here" placeholder of an empty slot, and the `before:` / `append:` targets a formatted slot uses instead of zones. Two ranking paths for one question, and the targets left out kept flipping on a small movement. Move both halves of the decision into one module. Priority and ranking were already one question split across five places, so `collisionPolicy.ts` now owns the depth scale as well, and every `useDroppable` asks it rather than spelling a number. Three corrections to the ranking itself, each of which the zone-only version got away with only because zones span their container: Distance gains a horizontal term, `hypot(max(0, |dx| - halfWidth), dy)`. It is zero anywhere inside a target's width, so ordinary block flow still ranks purely on the axis the insertion point divides. It stops being zero for targets in different columns of a formatted slot, which share a depth and a vertical band and would otherwise tie and be settled by registration order. Eligibility keeps the held target while the pointer stays within its width. The default detection stops reporting a target once the dragged feedback no longer overlaps it, and where targets are spaced farther apart than that feedback is tall, that happens before any neighbour becomes eligible. The margin lives in the ranking, so it can only act on targets still in the ranking: without this the held target is dropped at that edge and the indicator alternates between a target and nothing. Empty zones rank the same way. One per container does not mean no competitor: two adjacent empty containers put their placeholders at the same depth.
All four findings fixed at the root, plus one coverage loss I am not hidingCodex's findings 1 and 4 (empty zones, formatted-slot targets) were the same defect, and together they were the signal that the design was wrong rather than incomplete: a per-droppable detector wired at one call site leaves every other call site on the old path. So this does not patch two more sites — it consolidates.
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That fixture ( This is worth stating precisely, because it is a limit of the harness rather than of the canvas. I am not counting 4b as evidence. What still does carry it:
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…e margin Keeping the held target eligible while the pointer stayed within its width was unbounded along the axis that matters. Nothing released it until a rival became eligible, and on widely spaced targets nothing does for a long way: the margin stopped being a margin and the indicator clung to a target the pointer had left. Measured on a fixture whose targets sit 400px apart, reversing away from the held target never released it within 27px. With the reprieve removed entirely the same walk released it immediately, which is what isolates the reprieve as the cause rather than the ranking. Bound it by the SAME band in both axes: within the target's width, and within one band of its edge. Reusing the band rather than adding a second constant keeps one quantity answering "how far does the pointer move before the target changes", which is what the requirement names. The eligibility widening that this reprieve exists for survives, because a rival that becomes eligible inside one band still arrives before the held target is dropped.
Correcting myself: the unbracketed edge was this PR's bug, not the harness'sMy previous comment blamed const reverseBudget = marginPx + FORWARD_STEP_PX - 1; // 24 + 4 - 1 = 27pxNot derived from the forward travel. I read that derivation in The real cause, isolated by a controlled A/BThe reprieve added for finding 2 kept the held target eligible while the pointer stayed within its width, which is unbounded along the axis the margin acts on. Nothing released it until a rival became eligible — and on widely spaced targets nothing does for a long way.
The middle row is what isolates it: removing only the reprieve, changing nothing else, restored bracketing. So the effective hysteresis in that direction was not 10px, it was unbounded — the margin had stopped being a margin, and the indicator would cling to a target the pointer had left. That is a worse defect than the flicker it was fixing, and the harness reporting The fix, and why it is a removal rather than a third guessMy first attempt fixed the DIRECTION of the failure (target dropped too early) and produced the opposite one (target never dropped). Bounding the reprieve by the same The widening the reprieve exists for survives: a rival becoming eligible within one band still arrives before the held target is dropped. Verification
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…e on both axes A container's append rectangle spans every child while a child's before rectangle spans one column. Zeroing the horizontal term inside each target's width made both report zero horizontally, both reduce to the vertical gap, and in an equal-height row their centres align and the two tie, leaving registration order to decide which is reachable at all. Rank by full straight-line distance to the centre instead. Zones in ordinary block flow share a centre x, so they carry an identical horizontal offset: it does not cancel arithmetically, but being the same for every candidate it cannot reorder them, and order is the only thing the sort reads. Bound the eligibility reprieve by distance to the target's RECTANGLE rather than by a width test paired with a vertical margin. A hard boundary on either axis is a cliff the margin cannot smooth: gating horizontally on inside-the-width drops the held target the instant the pointer crosses a column edge, so its credit is never compared with the challenger and a jitter across that edge flips the indicator, which is the same defect rotated ninety degrees.
…-resolution # Conflicts: # packages/plugin-page-builder/src/admin/canvas/CanvasNode.tsx # packages/plugin-page-builder/src/admin/canvas/DropZone.tsx
Latest round: two fixed, one already fixed, one declined with reasoningAlready fixed before the finding was writtenP1 "Bound incumbent eligibility in the vertical direction" — this review examined FixedP2 "Preserve eligibility across the horizontal switch band" — correct, and it was the same defect rotated ninety degrees. The reprieve gated horizontally on a binary Both axes now collapse into one distance, P1 "Separate formatted append targets from their child columns" — correct, and introduced by my own previous fix. Zeroing the horizontal term inside each target's width made a container's Ranking now uses full straight-line distance to the centre. The property I originally wanted zeroing for survives without it: zones in block flow share a centre Declined, with reasoningP2 "Measure formatted targets along their actual layout axis" — the observation is right and I am not fixing it here, because it is pre-existing rather than introduced. It is a real defect: for a target whose rectangle is a block, the insertion line is an EDGE, not the centre, so on unequal-height children the next centre can become nearer while the pointer is still well inside the current child. The correct fix is an insertion-line model — each target declaring where its line sits and on which axis — and that is a design change with its own plumbing (slot orientation) and its own e2e measurement, not something to bolt onto this PR. Filed. Verification
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…its width Combining the two axes with `hypot` subtracted the switch margin from the hypotenuse rather than from the axis it is specified on. A pointer 100px from a full-width zone's centre turned a 10px credit into roughly a 36px vertical band, and further out the challenger could not overtake the incumbent at all before eligibility ended it. The margin was a different size everywhere, which is what a requirement stated in pixels of pointer travel rules out. Sum the axes instead. Zones in ordinary block flow span their container and so share a centre x, which makes the horizontal term a constant added to both candidates: it cancels exactly out of the subtraction and the band stays 10px of vertical travel at any horizontal offset. It stops cancelling where it must, since a formatted container's append rectangle is centred between its children while a child's before rectangle is centred on one column. The existing off-centre coverage asserted ORDER, which both metrics get right, so it stayed green while the width drifted. The new assertion measures the width itself at three horizontal offsets, and reverting to the hypotenuse fails it. Also removes a duplicated copy of four suites, and drops a stray duplicate declaration of @dnd-kit/abstract from devDependencies: it is imported for CollisionType and CollisionPriority, which are runtime values, so the dependencies entry is the correct one and carrying both left the lockfile inconsistent with the manifest.
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The ranking was extended to every insertion target, and two properties it depends on do not hold for three of them. A margin measured on one axis is only a constant physical width when the competing targets share an axis. Summing the axes makes a diagonal boundary cross the margin at a different rate, so a 10px credit becomes about 7.1px of travel between staggered cells; combining them under a square root fixes the direction dependence and breaks the axis alignment instead. No single distance to a point does both. Ranking every eligible target on one collision tier also discards the ordering that puts a target CONTAINING the pointer ahead of one the dragged shape merely overlaps. Beside a container of a different width, the neighbour's centre can be nearer while only the drag shape reaches it, and the drop lands in the wrong container. Both properties hold for the zones interleaved between a slot's children, because those span one container and therefore share a width and an axis: the summed metric degenerates to vertical distance, and "the pointer is inside this zone" and "this zone's centre is nearest" become the same statement. Scoping to them makes both failures unreachable rather than patched. The empty placeholder and the node-attached before/append targets return to the default ranking until a detector exists that resolves a REGION before measuring a distance, which is where the containment ordering can be kept without a tier that changes at the switch boundary.
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The reprieve's cutoff is a boundary, so the question is whether the indicator can chatter across it. It cannot, and the reason is worth pinning rather than arguing: the reprieve is conditioned on the target being the one currently held, so crossing outward releases it and coming back inside the band does not re-acquire it, because by then it is no longer held and the default detection is what has to admit it again. The test oscillates around the cutoff and asserts a single transition. Removing the condition on the held target makes it alternate, which the test rejects.
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Two defects with one cause: the ranking replaced the default one for every interleaved zone, and the reprieve extended a shape-granted eligibility using a pointer distance. Zones of ONE slot share a container and therefore a width and a centre, which is what makes a one-axis margin a physical width for them. Zones of two populated containers side by side share only a depth. Ranking those against each other on one tier by centre distance can put a narrow neighbour ahead of the wider container the pointer is inside, and the drop then takes the wrong parent. The ranking now governs only the run the held target belongs to; every other comparison, including acquiring a target in the first place, keeps the default detection and its containment ordering. The reprieve is now measured from the dragged shape's centre rather than the pointer. It exists to extend an eligibility the default detection granted because the SHAPE overlapped the target, so measuring it from the pointer stretches a different geometry than the one that ends: a block grabbed far from its edge leaves the pointer hundreds of pixels away, the bound is already spent when the overlap stops, and the target is released instantly and reacquired on the way back. Both decisions are pure functions rather than inline conditions, because the first version of each was a line inside the detector and neither could be reached by a test: mutating the run gate away and reverting the reprieve to the pointer both went undetected. They are caught now. Also corrects a doc line still describing the reprieve as bounded by the pointer staying within the target's width.
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When the held zone and a pointer-contained challenger belong to different same-depth runs, isCurrentTarget keeps the incumbent on the custom path while the challenger keeps the default path. Their equal PointerIntersection tier then compares incompatible values—bandPx - ManhattanDistance versus the default 1 / EuclideanDistance—so near adjoining 6px zones the old zone can outrank a pointer-contained zone in the next container and route the drop to the wrong parent. Fresh evidence after the accepted run-scoping fix is that only the challenger is restored to default scoring; resolve the run before scoring or place all competing collisions on one value scale.
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When the dragged feedback is taller than twice the 10px band, the default shape collision ends when its nearest edge leaves the target, but this measures the follow-on reprieve from the feedback's center. At that instant the computed edge distance is already at least half the feedback height and therefore exceeds the band, so widely spaced zones still transition immediately from the held target to no target and flicker. Fresh evidence after the accepted shape-geometry fix is that .center discards the dragged shape's dimensions; measure rectangle-to-rectangle separation so the reprieve begins at zero when overlap ends.
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Closing: the design cannot be made correct for column layoutsEight review rounds, and the finding rate never tapered. Round 8 is the one that decides it, because unlike round 7's it is not a corner case — it is any Columns layout, and the failure is a drop landing in the wrong parent: the author sees the indicator in one place and the block appears in another. That is worse than the flicker this PR set out to remove. The wall, stated once
A held zone at 5px scores Both escapes fail, and the pair is the proof rather than a preference:
So the scale must encode containment, and containment only means anything relative to the other candidates. A What survives, and where it wentNothing measured is lost. Four constraints are written into
They share a shape worth carrying: each is a relationship between adjacent candidates, so a normal fixture is precisely one where the relationship is uninteresting and cannot separate the fix from the defect. Honest note on the processI recommended shipping this one round ago, on the basis that the one unfixable finding needed a hand-authored 1px spacer. That reasoning was sound for round 7 and wrong for round 8, and the difference is reachability rather than severity. Recording it because "we already decided to ship" would have been the easy thing to carry forward. Branch preserved and reopenable. Both |
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A pointer resting near a drop-zone boundary changed target on every small movement. Zones were ranked by the default collision detection, and nothing made the zone already held harder to displace than a fresh one, so a 2px jitter produced
[1,2,1,2,...].Why the two previous attempts failed, and what is different here
Both earlier designs put a margin in
Collision.value— first a constant, then ad / (d - band)scaling. Both assumed the ranking can be adjusted by changing the score.sortCollisionsin@dnd-kit/abstractorders priority → type → value:The default detection reports
PointerIntersectioninside a zone's 6px rect andShapeIntersectionoutside it, so the tier changes exactly where the pointer crosses a zone edge — and the incumbent is outranked before its margin is ever compared. A third, cleverer number fails the same way.So this change does not compute a better score. Every zone reports ONE collision type, which is what puts the decision on the tier a margin can actually reach.
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zoneCollision.tsdetector, wired only into the interleaved (non-empty)DropZone:defaultCollisionDetection, unchanged. No zone starts claiming a pointer it did not claim before; only the ordering among eligible zones is replaced.priorityis passed through untouched, socollisionPriority: depthstill overrides it and a nested container's gap still beats its parent's identical rectangle.valuebecomes-(distance - band)in pixels, distance being|pointerY - zoneCentreY|, with the current target credited a fixed 10px.Linear rather than reciprocal on purpose: the margin's width in pointer travel then equals
TARGET_SWITCH_BAND_PXexactly, at any distance and any zone spacing, which is what makes it assertable in pixels.Distance is vertical only. Interleaved zones span their container's full width, so the horizontal term is common to every zone competing on value; a two-axis distance folds it under a square root where it stops cancelling and starts distorting the comparison it is irrelevant to.
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test.failremovals ride in this commit deliberatelytest.failinverts a result. Removing the markers ahead of the implementation turns both specs red for real; landing the implementation without removing them turns them red as "Expected to fail, but passed". No ordering of two PRs leavesmaingreen, so they are here. Inacceptance.spec.tsthe marker sat after a block of preconditions so those stayed real outcomes; that ordering is preserved by removing only the marker.Evidence
Unit — the margin is measured by sweeping the pointer one pixel at a time through the real
sortCollisions, never by comparing twovaluenumbers, because a margin can be arithmetically correct and never reach the comparison.6 of 6 mutations caught (harness self-checked against a guaranteed failure first, and reads both stdout and stderr since vitest writes
FAILto stderr):One test deliberately restores the varying tier and asserts the margin collapses to zero — if it ever stops failing, the uniform tier has stopped doing anything and the margin is decorative.
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tests/canvas/suite: 68 passed, 0 failed.holds its target through a jitter at a zone boundary— green, with its separate positive control (reaches a drop zone on the fixture the hysteresis probe uses) also green, so the pass is not "the harness never got onto a zone".scenario 4b: a 2px jitter at a zone edge keeps the indicator stable— green, on the 400px/24px fixture, so the margin holds at the narrowest spacing too.checklist point 1: the innermost container owns the drop target,resolves a pointer collision to the innermost container,puts the indicator in the gap the pointer is over,scenario 4: a steady drag never reverses, and all ofzone-inset,settle,oscillationandcoordinate-mapping.The 7 remaining
✘are pre-existingtest.failmarkers for unrelated unbuilt features (autoscroll, undo history, keyboard move); none is hysteresis.@dnd-kit/abstractand@dnd-kit/collisionare promoted from transitive to declared dependencies, since this is the first code here to import them directly.Summary by CodeRabbit
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