diff --git a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/bubble-menu.tsx b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/bubble-menu.tsx
index 785e7c24d21..160657905fe 100644
--- a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/bubble-menu.tsx
+++ b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/bubble-menu.tsx
@@ -179,14 +179,13 @@ export function EditorBubbleMenu({
     setLinkValue(null)
   }
 
-  const { resolveAnchor, options, appendTo } = useBubbleMenuFloating(editor, scrollContainerRef)
+  const { resolveAnchor, appendTo } = useBubbleMenuFloating(editor, scrollContainerRef)
 
   return (
     <BubbleMenu
       editor={editor}
       pluginKey={bubbleMenuKey}
       getReferencedVirtualElement={resolveAnchor}
-      options={options}
       appendTo={appendTo}
       role='toolbar'
       aria-label='Text formatting'
diff --git a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/table-menu.tsx b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/table-menu.tsx
index e311e63dedd..329fb525b18 100644
--- a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/table-menu.tsx
+++ b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/table-menu.tsx
@@ -38,14 +38,13 @@ export function TableBubbleMenu({ editor, scrollContainerRef }: TableBubbleMenuP
     }),
   })
 
-  const { resolveAnchor, options, appendTo } = useBubbleMenuFloating(editor, scrollContainerRef)
+  const { resolveAnchor, appendTo } = useBubbleMenuFloating(editor, scrollContainerRef)
 
   return (
     <BubbleMenu
       editor={editor}
       pluginKey={menuKey}
       getReferencedVirtualElement={resolveAnchor}
-      options={options}
       appendTo={appendTo}
       role='toolbar'
       aria-label='Table editing'
diff --git a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/use-bubble-menu-floating.ts b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/use-bubble-menu-floating.ts
index 99c422fec9d..a72d1189a97 100644
--- a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/use-bubble-menu-floating.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/menus/use-bubble-menu-floating.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
-import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react'
+import { useCallback } from 'react'
 import { posToDOMRect } from '@tiptap/core'
 import type { Editor } from '@tiptap/react'
 
 /**
  * A Floating UI virtual element anchored to the current selection. The rect is recomputed on every
  * call rather than cached by selection: the same `from`/`to` maps to a different screen position as
- * the pane scrolls, so a cached rect would freeze the toolbar in place. `contextElement` is the
- * editor DOM so Floating UI resolves clipping (and the `hide` middleware) against the editor's
- * scroll container, hiding the toolbar once the selection leaves the pane — not just the viewport.
- * Returns `null` before the editor mounts so the caller skips positioning.
+ * the pane scrolls, so a cached rect would freeze the toolbar in place. Returns `null` before the
+ * editor mounts so the caller skips positioning.
  */
 function selectionVirtualElement(editor: Editor) {
   const { view, state } = editor
@@ -23,37 +21,24 @@ function selectionVirtualElement(editor: Editor) {
 }
 
 /**
- * BubbleMenu Floating UI options. `scrollTarget` is load-bearing: TipTap's reposition listener
- * defaults to `window`, but the editor scrolls inside an inner overflow container that never fires a
- * window scroll — passing the container makes the toolbar track the selection as the pane scrolls.
- * `hide` removes the toolbar once the selection scrolls out of view; `fixed` positions it relative
- * to the viewport so an overflow ancestor can't clip it.
- */
-function bubbleMenuFloatingOptions(scrollTarget: HTMLElement | null) {
-  return { strategy: 'fixed' as const, scrollTarget: scrollTarget ?? undefined, hide: true }
-}
-
-/** Renders the toolbar into `<body>` so a clipping or transformed ancestor can't reparent or shift it. */
-const appendTo = () => document.body
-
-/**
- * Wires a BubbleMenu's Floating UI concerns — the selection anchor, positioning options, and the
- * body portal — so the text and table toolbars share one source of truth and can't drift. Captures
- * the parent-owned scroll container into state so `options` gains a new identity once the element
- * resolves, which is what makes the BubbleMenu bind its scroll listener to the pane.
+ * Wires a BubbleMenu's Floating UI concerns — the selection anchor and the portal target — so the
+ * text and table toolbars share one source of truth and can't drift.
+ *
+ * The toolbar is appended into the editor's scroll container (which must be a positioning context)
+ * and left at TipTap's default `absolute` strategy, so it becomes an absolutely-positioned child of
+ * the scrolled content and tracks the selection through native scrolling — no scroll listener, so no
+ * lag or "chase" as the pane scrolls. TipTap's default `flip` still parks it above or below the
+ * selection at the pane edges, and the container's overflow clips it once the selection scrolls out.
  */
 export function useBubbleMenuFloating(
   editor: Editor,
   scrollContainerRef: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement | null>
 ) {
-  const [scrollTarget, setScrollTarget] = useState<HTMLElement | null>(null)
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    setScrollTarget(scrollContainerRef.current)
-  }, [scrollContainerRef])
-
   const resolveAnchor = useCallback(() => selectionVirtualElement(editor), [editor])
-  const options = useMemo(() => bubbleMenuFloatingOptions(scrollTarget), [scrollTarget])
+  const appendTo = useCallback(
+    () => scrollContainerRef.current ?? document.body,
+    [scrollContainerRef]
+  )
 
-  return { resolveAnchor, options, appendTo }
+  return { resolveAnchor, appendTo }
 }
diff --git a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/rich-markdown-editor.tsx b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/rich-markdown-editor.tsx
index 447c8aebb2e..f00c89f7a0c 100644
--- a/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/rich-markdown-editor.tsx
+++ b/apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/files/components/file-viewer/rich-markdown-editor/rich-markdown-editor.tsx
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ export function LoadedRichMarkdownEditor({
   return (
     <div
       ref={containerRef}
-      className={cn('flex flex-1 flex-col overflow-y-auto', isEditable && 'cursor-text')}
+      className={cn('relative flex flex-1 flex-col overflow-y-auto', isEditable && 'cursor-text')}
     >
       {editor && (
         <EditorBubbleMenu