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Weird behaviour of cursor and focus with images

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Description

What’s broken?

Focus on image
Arrow up and the cursor goes above but not on a line if no line is actually above.
Or arrow down but nothing happens. It doesn't go to the empty line bellow.
To create the empty line I have to click below the image with my mouse

What did you expect to happen?

if no element above the image, with arrow up, focus should stay on image
With arrow down it should create an empty line for the cursor to move down and save a click

Steps to reproduce

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fb21d53e-c130-4083-a990-e8815a107698

BlockNote version

https://www.blocknotejs.org/demo#7ixm8

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Research direction

Reproduce the image cursor and focus behavior from the linked video and BlockNote demo, then trace the editor's image-selection and arrow-key handling. Done means Arrow Up keeps focus on the image when there is no element above, while Arrow Down creates or reaches an empty line below without requiring a mouse click.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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