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Try selecting closest editable block when clicking on a disabled block #60016

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What?

Closes #60011.

Makes it so that, when you're editing a page with Template preview enabled (e.g. in the site editor), clicking on a disabled block will select the nearest non-disabled block.

Also removes the Edit your template to edit this block toast notification.

Why?

See #60011.

How?

New hook in @wordpress/editor called useSelectNearestEditableBlock. This hook works similarly to the existing useFlashEditableBlocks hook and adds a click handler that selects the nearest editable block when the click target is the root container.

The nearest editable block is determined by drawing a straight line to the nearest point of the block bounding rect. Template Part blocks are excluded and the inner blocks of a Post Content block are preferred.

Testing Instructions

  1. Go to Appearance → Editor → Pages and create/edit a page.
  2. Click on a disabled part of the template e.g. the margin or just below the post content.
  3. The nearest editable block to where you clicked should be selected.
  4. Go to Pages and create/edit a page.
  5. In the Page sidebar, enable Template → Template preview.
  6. Click on a disabled part of the template e.g. the margin or just below the post content.
  7. The nearest editable block to where you clicked should be selected.

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Kapture.2024-03-27.at.10.40.28.mp4

@noisysocks noisysocks added [Type] Technical Prototype Offers a technical exploration into an idea as an example of what's possible [Feature] Site Editor Related to the overarching Site Editor (formerly "full site editing") [Feature] Page Content Focus Ability to toggle between focusing on editing the page and editing the template in the site editor. labels Mar 20, 2024
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@SaxonF Here's a very rough attempt at what you describe in #60011. Let me know if you're keen on it and I'll get the PR ready for merge. (It's hacky rn.)

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This is a fantastic step forward. I'd expect a code checkup before landing, but behaviorally this is solid.

The trunk behavior is that when you click a header template part, you get the snackbar about it being editable. But focus is remains unchanged, it sits simply on edit-site-visual-editor__editor-canvas. Here's a GIF showing this:
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This PR changes that, so when you click a template part, focus is transferred to the nearest editable block. That's shown in this GIF:

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The main benefit here is to improve the clarity of what is possible to edit vs. what's part of the template, and even improve the writing flow by providing a giant tap target for starting.

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Unrelated to this PR, I've in the past voiced my skepticisim about the dotted hover outlines. I still think they are not additive to the experience and mainly add confusion as to whether I selected blocks or not, and this PR specifically makes them even less relevant. But I'm also aware that they are being explored as parts of a larger whole, and happy to keep them to see that to fruition. I'd make them fade out much faster though, to reduce the confusion of whether I selected blocks or whether this was just a quick highlight flash.

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I wonder if a more explicit message might be helpful? Something like:

This block is part of the template: $template-name. Editing this template will affect all posts or pages that use it.

Otherwise, looks good!

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Unrelated to this PR, I've in the past voiced my skepticisim about the dotted hover outlines. I still think they are not additive to the experience and mainly add confusion as to whether I selected blocks or not, and this PR specifically makes them even less relevant. But I'm also aware that they are being explored as parts of a larger whole, and happy to keep them to see that to fruition. I'd make them fade out much faster though, to reduce the confusion of whether I selected blocks or whether this was just a quick highlight flash.

Agreed.

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I think this works well. 🚀

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Thanks for testing! I'll wait for #60010 to land and then finish getting this ready.

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noisysocks commented Mar 26, 2024

I've polished this up and marked it ready for review.

@SaxonF @jasmussen Would you mind testing this again? Things feel a bit different now that #60010 is landed because clicking on a template part will select the template part.

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This is feeling much nicer to me than on trunk, it's very neat not having the toast notification popping up, and the double-click behaviour still allows switching over to template editing without having to go to the template menu 👍

One wrinkle I ran into in the post editor with long templates, is that if you go to click on something further down in the template, it'll immediately scroll up to the nearest block. This means that on longer templates, it didn't seem possible to double click on parts of the template as the first click scrolls all the way back to the nearest editable block. It's a little tricky to show in a video, but here goes:

2024-03-27.11.41.51.mp4

One potential idea: should there be a limit on the distance calculation so that it only selects the nearest block if it's within a threshold distance? Or is this potential issue not worth worrying about at this stage 🤔 (IMO it feels very nice to never see the toast popup, so overall I prefer the behaviour here to trunk).

The code change is also looking good to me!

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One wrinkle I ran into in the post editor with long templates, is that if you go to click on something further down in the template, it'll immediately scroll up to the nearest block.
One potential idea: should there be a limit on the distance calculation so that it only selects the nearest block if it's within a threshold distance?

Hmm, what do you think @SaxonF? You can see the issue by going to WP Admin → Posts → Edit a post → Post sidebar → Template → Enable Template preview and then clicking on the comments at the bottom.

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SaxonF commented Mar 27, 2024

@noisysocks we can start with threshold and increase if needed. Probably the safer approach.

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I added a threshold of 500px which is mostly arbitrary.

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In testing, 500px feels like a nice default threshold to go with for now — it's big enough that most of the time I'm being redirected to the nearest block, while being small enough that I can reliably double click on other blocks to get the prompt to switch over to template editing:

2024-03-28.10.16.35.mp4

Also, looks like it'll be easy to change the threshold in follow-ups if anyone finds it feels like it needs adjusting down the track.

LGTM! ✨

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Nice, thank you!

cbravobernal pushed a commit to garridinsi/gutenberg that referenced this pull request Apr 9, 2024
WordPress#60016)

* Try selecting closest editable block when clicking on a disabled block

* Remove 'Edit template' notification

* Select nearest *inner block* of Post Content

* Move to own hook in @wordpress/editor

* Revert use-block-props/index.js

* Don't select elements that are too far away

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