📝 feat: Improved Textarea Functionality (#1942)

* feat: paste plain text from apps with rich paste data, improved edit message textarea, improved height resizing for long text

* feat(EditMessage): autofocus

* chore: retain user text color when entering edit mode

client/src/components/Chat/Input/Textarea.tsx

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export default function Textarea({
     select: (data) => mergeFileConfig(data),
   });
   const {
-    inputRef,
+    textAreaRef,
     handlePaste,
     handleKeyUp,
     handleKeyDown,
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export default function Textarea({
   const endpointFileConfig = fileConfig.endpoints[endpoint ?? ''];
   return (
     <TextareaAutosize
-      ref={inputRef}
+      ref={textAreaRef}
       autoFocus
       value={value}
       disabled={!!disabled}
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ export default function Textarea({
           : 'pl-3 md:pl-4',
         'm-0 w-full resize-none border-0 bg-transparent py-[10px] pr-10 placeholder-black/50 focus:ring-0 focus-visible:ring-0 dark:bg-transparent dark:placeholder-white/50 md:py-3.5 md:pr-12 ',
         removeFocusOutlines,
-        'max-h-52',
+        'max-h-[65vh] md:max-h-[85vh]',
       )}
     />
   );

client/src/components/Chat/Messages/Content/EditMessage.tsx

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-import { useRef } from 'react';
+import { useState, useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
+import TextareaAutosize from 'react-textarea-autosize';
 import { EModelEndpoint } from 'librechat-data-provider';
 import { useUpdateMessageMutation } from 'librechat-data-provider/react-query';
-import Container from '~/components/Messages/Content/Container';
-import { useChatContext } from '~/Providers';
 import type { TEditProps } from '~/common';
+import Container from '~/components/Messages/Content/Container';
+import { cn, removeFocusOutlines } from '~/utils';
+import { useChatContext } from '~/Providers';
 import { useLocalize } from '~/hooks';
 
 const EditMessage = ({
@@ -17,18 +19,28 @@ const EditMessage = ({
 }: TEditProps) => {
   const { getMessages, setMessages, conversation } = useChatContext();
 
-  const textEditor = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
+  const [editedText, setEditedText] = useState<string>(text ?? '');
+  const textAreaRef = useRef<HTMLTextAreaElement | null>(null);
+
   const { conversationId, parentMessageId, messageId } = message;
   const { endpoint: _endpoint, endpointType } = conversation ?? { endpoint: null };
   const endpoint = endpointType ?? _endpoint;
   const updateMessageMutation = useUpdateMessageMutation(conversationId ?? '');
   const localize = useLocalize();
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const textArea = textAreaRef.current;
+    if (textArea) {
+      const length = textArea.value.length;
+      textArea.focus();
+      textArea.setSelectionRange(length, length);
+    }
+  }, []);
+
   const resubmitMessage = () => {
-    const text = textEditor?.current?.innerText ?? '';
     if (message.isCreatedByUser) {
       ask({
-        text,
+        text: editedText,
         parentMessageId,
         conversationId,
       });
@@ -44,7 +56,7 @@ const EditMessage = ({
       ask(
         { ...parentMessage },
         {
-          editedText: text,
+          editedText,
           editedMessageId: messageId,
           isRegenerate: true,
           isEdited: true,
@@ -62,19 +74,18 @@ const EditMessage = ({
     if (!messages) {
       return;
     }
-    const text = textEditor?.current?.innerText ?? '';
     updateMessageMutation.mutate({
       conversationId: conversationId ?? '',
       model: conversation?.model ?? 'gpt-3.5-turbo',
+      text: editedText,
       messageId,
-      text,
     });
     setMessages(
       messages.map((msg) =>
         msg.messageId === messageId
           ? {
             ...msg,
-            text,
+            text: editedText,
             isEdited: true,
           }
           : msg,
@@ -85,15 +96,33 @@ const EditMessage = ({
 
   return (
     <Container>
-      <div
+      <TextareaAutosize
+        ref={textAreaRef}
+        onChange={(e) => {
+          setEditedText(e.target.value);
+        }}
         data-testid="message-text-editor"
-        className="markdown prose dark:prose-invert light w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words border-none focus:outline-none"
+        className={cn(
+          'markdown prose dark:prose-invert light whitespace-pre-wrap break-words dark:text-gray-20',
+          'm-0 w-full resize-none border-0 bg-transparent p-0',
+          removeFocusOutlines,
+        )}
+        onPaste={(e) => {
+          const pastedData = e.clipboardData.getData('text/plain');
+          const textArea = textAreaRef.current;
+          if (!textArea) {
+            return;
+          }
+          const start = textArea.selectionStart;
+          const end = textArea.selectionEnd;
+          const newValue =
+            textArea.value.substring(0, start) + pastedData + textArea.value.substring(end);
+          setEditedText(newValue);
+        }}
         contentEditable={true}
-        ref={textEditor}
+        value={editedText}
         suppressContentEditableWarning={true}
-      >
+      />
-        {text}
-      </div>
       <div className="mt-2 flex w-full justify-center text-center">
         <button
           className="btn btn-primary relative mr-2"

client/src/hooks/Input/useTextarea.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import debounce from 'lodash/debounce';
-import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
+import { useEffect, useRef, useCallback } from 'react';
 import { EModelEndpoint } from 'librechat-data-provider';
 import type { TEndpointOption } from 'librechat-data-provider';
+import type { SetterOrUpdater } from 'recoil';
 import type { KeyboardEvent } from 'react';
 import { useAssistantsMapContext } from '~/Providers/AssistantsMapContext';
 import useGetSender from '~/hooks/Conversations/useGetSender';
@@ -25,12 +26,20 @@ const getAssistantName = ({
   }
 };
 
-export default function useTextarea({ setText, submitMessage, disabled = false }) {
+export default function useTextarea({
+  setText,
+  submitMessage,
+  disabled = false,
+}: {
+  setText: SetterOrUpdater<string>;
+  submitMessage: () => void;
+  disabled?: boolean;
+}) {
   const assistantMap = useAssistantsMapContext();
   const { conversation, isSubmitting, latestMessage, setShowBingToneSetting, setFilesLoading } =
     useChatContext();
   const isComposing = useRef(false);
-  const inputRef = useRef<HTMLTextAreaElement | null>(null);
+  const textAreaRef = useRef<HTMLTextAreaElement | null>(null);
   const { handleFiles } = useFileHandling();
   const getSender = useGetSender();
   const localize = useLocalize();
@@ -54,7 +63,7 @@ export default function useTextarea({ setText, submitMessage, disabled = false }
     }
 
     if (conversationId !== 'search') {
-      inputRef.current?.focus();
+      textAreaRef.current?.focus();
     }
     // setShowBingToneSetting is a recoil setter, so it doesn't need to be in the dependency array
     // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
@@ -62,14 +71,14 @@ export default function useTextarea({ setText, submitMessage, disabled = false }
 
   useEffect(() => {
     const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {
-      inputRef.current?.focus();
+      textAreaRef.current?.focus();
     }, 100);
 
     return () => clearTimeout(timeoutId);
   }, [isSubmitting]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (inputRef.current?.value) {
+    if (textAreaRef.current?.value) {
       return;
     }
 
@@ -91,15 +100,15 @@ export default function useTextarea({ setText, submitMessage, disabled = false }
 
     const placeholder = getPlaceholderText();
 
-    if (inputRef.current?.getAttribute('placeholder') === placeholder) {
+    if (textAreaRef.current?.getAttribute('placeholder') === placeholder) {
       return;
     }
 
     const setPlaceholder = () => {
       const placeholder = getPlaceholderText();
 
-      if (inputRef.current?.getAttribute('placeholder') !== placeholder) {
+      if (textAreaRef.current?.getAttribute('placeholder') !== placeholder) {
-        inputRef.current?.setAttribute('placeholder', placeholder);
+        textAreaRef.current?.setAttribute('placeholder', placeholder);
       }
     };
 
@@ -147,16 +156,33 @@ export default function useTextarea({ setText, submitMessage, disabled = false }
     isComposing.current = false;
   };
 
-  const handlePaste = (e: React.ClipboardEvent<HTMLTextAreaElement>) => {
+  const handlePaste = useCallback(
-    if (e.clipboardData && e.clipboardData.files.length > 0) {
+    (e: React.ClipboardEvent<HTMLTextAreaElement>) => {
-      e.preventDefault();
+      const pastedData = e.clipboardData.getData('text/plain');
-      setFilesLoading(true);
+      const textArea = textAreaRef.current;
-      handleFiles(e.clipboardData.files);
+
-    }
+      if (!textArea) {
-  };
+        return;
+      }
+
+      const start = textArea.selectionStart;
+      const end = textArea.selectionEnd;
+
+      const newValue =
+        textArea.value.substring(0, start) + pastedData + textArea.value.substring(end);
+      setText(newValue);
+
+      if (e.clipboardData && e.clipboardData.files.length > 0) {
+        e.preventDefault();
+        setFilesLoading(true);
+        handleFiles(e.clipboardData.files);
+      }
+    },
+    [handleFiles, setFilesLoading, setText],
+  );
 
   return {
-    inputRef,
+    textAreaRef,
     handleKeyDown,
     handleKeyUp,
     handlePaste,