Blockquote Button

Available for free

A fully accessible blockquote button for Tiptap editors. Easily wrap selected content in a <blockquote> with keyboard shortcut support and flexible customization options.

Installation

Add the component via the Tiptap CLI:

npx @tiptap/cli@latest add blockquote-button

Components

`<BlockquoteButton />`

A prebuilt React component that toggles blockquote formatting.

Usage

import { EditorContent, EditorContext, useEditor } from '@tiptap/react'
import { StarterKit } from '@tiptap/starter-kit'
import { BlockQuoteButton } from '@/components/tiptap-ui/blockquote-button'

import '@/components/tiptap-node/paragraph-node/paragraph-node.scss'

export default function MyEditor() {
  const editor = useEditor({
    immediatelyRender: false,
    extensions: [StarterKit],
    content: `
        <blockquote>
            <p>"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."</p><p>— Alan Kay</p>
        </blockquote>
        `,
  })

  return (
    <EditorContext.Provider value={{ editor }}>
      <BlockquoteButton
        editor={editor}
        text="Quote"
        hideWhenUnavailable={true}
        showShortcut={true}
        onToggled={() => console.log('Blockquote toggled!')}
      />

      <EditorContent editor={editor} role="presentation" />
    </EditorContext.Provider>
  )
}

Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
`editor`	`Editor \| null`	`undefined`	The Tiptap editor instance
`text`	`string`	`undefined`	Optional text label for the button
`hideWhenUnavailable`	`boolean`	`false`	Hides the button when blockquote is not applicable
`onToggled`	`() => void`	`undefined`	Callback fired after a successful toggle
`showShortcut`	`boolean`	`false`	Shows a keyboard shortcut badge (if available)

Hooks

`useBlockquote()`

A custom hook to build your own blockquote toggle button with full control over rendering and behavior.

Usage

function MyBlockquoteButton() {
  const { isVisible, isActive, canToggle, handleToggle, label, shortcutKeys, Icon } = useBlockquote(
    {
      editor: myEditor,
      hideWhenUnavailable: true,
      onToggled: () => console.log('Blockquote toggled!'),
    },
  )

  if (!isVisible) return null

  return (
    <button onClick={handleToggle} disabled={!canToggle} aria-label={label} aria-pressed={isActive}>
      <Icon />
      {label}
      {shortcutKeys && <Badge>{parseShortcutKeys({ shortcutKeys })}</Badge>}
    </button>
  )
}

Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
`editor`	`Editor \| null`	`undefined`	The Tiptap editor instance
`hideWhenUnavailable`	`boolean`	`false`	Hides the button if blockquote cannot be applied
`onToggled`	`() => void`	`undefined`	Callback fired after toggling blockquote

Return Values

Name	Type	Description
`isVisible`	`boolean`	Whether the button should be rendered
`isActive`	`boolean`	If the blockquote is currently active
`canToggle`	`boolean`	If the blockquote toggle is currently allowed
`handleToggle`	`() => boolean`	Function to toggle blockquote formatting
`label`	`string`	Accessible label text for the button
`shortcutKeys`	`string`	Keyboard shortcut (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + B)
`Icon`	`React.FC`	Icon component for the blockquote button

Utilities

`canToggleBlockquote(editor, turnInto?)`

Checks if blockquote can be toggled in the current editor state.

import { canToggleBlockquote } from '@/components/tiptap-ui/blockquote-button'

const canToggle = canToggleBlockquote(editor) // Check if can toggle
const canTurnInto = canToggleBlockquote(editor, true) // Check if can turn into blockquote

`toggleBlockquote(editor)`

Programmatically toggles blockquote formatting for the current selection.

import { toggleBlockquote } from '@/components/tiptap-ui/blockquote-button'

const success = toggleBlockquote(editor)
if (success) {
  console.log('Blockquote toggled successfully!')
}

Keyboard Shortcuts

The blockquote button supports the following keyboard shortcut:

Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + B: Toggle blockquote formatting

The shortcut is automatically registered when using either the <BlockquoteButton /> component or the useBlockquote() hook.

Requirements

Dependencies

@tiptap/react - Core Tiptap React integration
@tiptap/starter-kit - Basic Tiptap extensions including blockquote support
react-hotkeys-hook - Keyboard shortcut management

Referenced Components

use-tiptap-editor (hook)
button (primitive)
badge (primitive)
tiptap-utils (lib)
block-quote-icon (icon)

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