Block library: Try variations for Group block #20218
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Seems promising! :) |
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Nice, I've been waiting for this feature for a long time.
I think it would be a good idea to add a dropdown to change the tag in the Inspector, so you can change the tag on existing blocks. Actually, maybe this is something that could even be placed in the toolbar.
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There should probably be some way of limiting this attribute to certain whitelisted values (div, section, header, footer, and aside are what I'm thinking).
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I'm thinking it could be less of a hard limit and more of a recommendation while in the editor, similarly to how the editor advises against incorrect heading levels or against low-contrast colour combinations.
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Yes, I imagine it could also have support as a wrapper for custom-elements.
This is something to think about in the broad context of block variations (and patterns?). I do believe there are some interesting opportunities in terms of how a block is aware of its own "degree of variation" from the base block type or chosen variation, and offering to convert in-place between variations. |
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This is nifty! What do you see is left to do, @gziolo? |
It's something that it's on the radar. It needs some experimentation because in some cases it might cause content loss. We discussed some strategies with @mcsf how to mitigate it and one possible solution would be to show a snackbar notice with an option to revert changes. In the case of this proposal, it would be safe to allow changing block variations.
The proposed variation could have a unique icon and description. In addition, we might want to cover more variations listed in the parent issue, e.g. |
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In an attempt to move this forward, I've rebased it and make the required adjustements. IMO, this is ready for a v1, the question for me remains about the variations: What variations do we want to expose initially if any. Right now there's just a "section" variation, but let me know if you think we should add more now. |
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form is also missing on this list. See: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/examples/landmarks/HTML5.html
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Not sure what you would do with form since there are generally no granular blocks to make sense of it. Blocks that perform form-like functions would already define the element for themselves.
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There are some unit tests failing, we need to investigate further whether it's fine to regenerate snapshots or we need to add deprecation entry for the block. |
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I'm still hesitant on the variations here, they have the potential to confuse regular users. So I'm thinking we should just remove the variations for now and merge the PR to move forward and allow FSE themes to use the new attribute. |
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Test failures actually look related (maybe the branch needs to be rebased?), but other than that, I think this is good to go. Just having the attribute that I can manually edit will allow me to start using Group blocks in some places on my site where I'm currently using Custom HTML blocks. 🙂
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I found the reason, I will push the fix tomorrow and land this PR. The migration function needs to set |
This is an experiment which allows to use `section` tag as a wrapper used with the Group block. It uses new block variations API.
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All issues resolved, Travis seems to be happy now. We can land this PR once the last job on Travis finishes. |
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Thanks @gziolo |
Description
closes #20200.
This is an experiment that allows using
sectiontag as a wrapper used with the Group block. It uses new block variations API and registers Section block variation to use in the inserter.Screenshots