feat: add a dedicated alt text field to the image block (#2822) - #3016
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe image block now stores and parses explicit alternative text. Core and React renderers apply it to image elements with filename fallback. The React formatting toolbar adds a localized editor for selected image blocks, with updated conversion fixtures. ChangesImage alternative-text support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds editable image alternative text, but HTML round-trips can currently replace an image’s file name with its alt text, and the toolbar does not support custom alt-only blocks. These bounded correctness and integration issues should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EditorSelection
participant FileAltButton
participant ImageBlock
participant ImageRenderer
EditorSelection->>FileAltButton: provide selected image block
FileAltButton->>ImageBlock: update alt property
ImageBlock->>ImageRenderer: provide alt property
ImageRenderer->>ImageRenderer: set rendered img alt attribute
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In `@packages/core/src/blocks/Image/parseImageElement.ts`:
- Around line 5-7: Update parseImageElement so name is derived from the source
image filename when available rather than from imageElement.alt; otherwise leave
name undefined. Keep alt sourced independently from imageElement.alt, and
preserve the existing return shape.
In
`@packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/FileAltButton.tsx`:
- Around line 71-78: Update the block-type guard in FileAltButton so it checks
only for a string alt property, allowing selected custom blocks without a string
url to expose the alternative-text control. Preserve the existing undefined
return for blocks that do not provide alt.
In `@packages/server-util/src/context/ServerBlockNoteEditor.test.ts`:
- Line 83: Update the Image block HTML round-trip involving parseImageElement so
the original name remains distinct from the HTML alt text instead of assigning
alt to both fields. Modify the test near the existing toMatchSnapshot assertion
to explicitly verify that name is “Example” and alt is “Alt text”, preventing
snapshots from masking metadata loss.
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Keep the file name separate from the alternative text.
HTML clipboard parsing assigns imageElement.alt to both name and alt, although non-preview export uses name as link text. If the alternative text changes later, the link text can remain stale. Derive name from the source filename when available, or leave it undefined.
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In `@packages/core/src/blocks/Image/parseImageElement.ts` around lines 5 - 7,
Update parseImageElement so name is derived from the source image filename when
available rather than from imageElement.alt; otherwise leave name undefined.
Keep alt sourced independently from imageElement.alt, and preserve the existing
return shape.
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| !blockHasType(block, editor, block.type, { | ||
| url: "string", | ||
| alt: "string", | ||
| }) | ||
| ) { | ||
| return undefined; | ||
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Show the control for blocks that expose alt.
Line 72 requires both url and alt. A selected custom block with a string alt prop but no string url prop returns undefined, so users cannot edit its alternative text. Require only alt in this guard.
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- url: "string",
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| !blockHasType(block, editor, block.type, { | |
| url: "string", | |
| alt: "string", | |
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| return undefined; | |
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| !blockHasType(block, editor, block.type, { | |
| alt: "string", | |
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In
`@packages/react/src/components/FormattingToolbar/DefaultButtons/FileAltButton.tsx`
around lines 71 - 78, Update the block-type guard in FileAltButton so it checks
only for a string alt property, allowing selected custom blocks without a string
url to expose the alternative-text control. Preserve the existing undefined
return for blocks that do not provide alt.
| name: "Example", | ||
| url: "exampleURL", | ||
| caption: "Caption", | ||
| alt: "Alt text", |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve the image file name during HTML round-trip.
packages/core/src/blocks/Image/block.ts exports alt: "Alt text" as the HTML alt value. packages/core/src/blocks/Image/parseImageElement.ts then assigns that same value to both name and alt. The parsed block therefore changes name: "Example" to name: "Alt text".
Because this test uses toMatchSnapshot(), regenerated snapshots can bless the metadata loss. Preserve name separately from alt, and assert both values after the HTML round-trip.
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In `@packages/server-util/src/context/ServerBlockNoteEditor.test.ts` at line 83,
Update the Image block HTML round-trip involving parseImageElement so the
original name remains distinct from the HTML alt text instead of assigning alt
to both fields. Modify the test near the existing toMatchSnapshot assertion to
explicitly verify that name is “Example” and alt is “Alt text”, preventing
snapshots from masking metadata loss.
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Closes #2822.
Follows the acceptance criteria from the issue: alt text is stored on the image block as an optional prop, there is a toolbar button to add or edit it, and it controls the
altattribute both in the editor and on HTML export.Until now the image block reused the file name as the
altattribute, so there was no way to set a real accessibility label. This adds a dedicatedaltprop that mirrors howcaptionis already plumbed through the block.What changed:
altprop on the image block (defaults to"").alt || name || "", keeping the file-name fallback so existing content is unaffected.parseImageElementreads the<img>altattribute into the prop, so alt text survives paste and round-trips.currentColor), since there is no fitting alt-text glyph in the icon set.The button only shows for blocks that expose an
altprop, which in the default schema is images.Verification: full-monorepo typecheck passes, and the
core,react, andserver-utiltest suites pass with the image-block snapshots regenerated.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Accessibility