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Update control labels to the new uppercase styles #42789

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Closes #42782

What?

Updates all control component labels to the new uppercase styles.

Why?

Most of the missing font-size declarations discovered in #42781 were in control labels, so this is a good opportunity to do a sweep and update.

How?

The label styles in our repo currently originate from either InputControl or BaseControl. Although we should eventually merge them completely, as an incremental step in this PR I've extracted the shared typography styles between the two into a low-level mixin called baseLabelTypography.

Next, all components that have ad hoc styled labels have been replaced with BaseControl's StyledLabel or BaseControl.VisualLabel. The two are basically the same, except that StyledLabel is <label> by default and is not publicly exported, while BaseControl.VisualLabel is <span> by default and publicly exported. Both are polymorphic. We should streamline this more, but there are also some TypeScript complications so I'm not going to do it in this PR.

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  1. npm run storybook:dev and check all "control" components.
  2. npm run dev and check the components in the post/site editors.

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// @ts-expect-error - Unclear how to fix, see also https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/39468#discussion_r827150516
BaseControl.VisualLabel.displayName = 'BaseControl.VisualLabel';
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Side effect of the changing the TS types for VisualLabel! We might want to look into a solution if we encounter this more.

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/**
* Removes Chrome/Safari/Firefox user agent stylesheet padding from
* StyledLabel when it is rendered as a legend.
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This legend reset has been moved from being included only in StyledLabel, to being shared between both StyledLabel and StyledVisualLabel . This is because StyledVisualLabel (a.k.a. BaseControl.VisualLabel) is also likely to be used as="legend".

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Nice work as always @mirka 👍

In general, this PR tested well for me. I only encountered a few minor issues.

  1. The passing of props to the BaseControl.VisualLabel which you've already flagged. After applying a quick fix for that, legends were rendered correctly.
  2. The capitalization of the labels meant the Letter Spacing control in the editor's typography panel was truncated. I believe the root of this issue was the Font Appearance control forcing the panel's first column to be greater than 50%, thus restricting the space for the letter spacing label. I've put up a quick fix for that separately in #42795
  3. There are a few unit tests that may need snapshots updated after these changes.

Once tweaks fixing 1 & 3 are in place, I'll happily approve this PR. Thanks for wrangling all of this. 🙇

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👏 A much needed improvement, thank you for working on it!

We should streamline this more, but there are also some TypeScript complications so I'm not going to do it in this PR.
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Looking forward to us being able to iron out also these inconsistencies, as I believe that can greatly improve the overall look & feel of the library

@mirka mirka force-pushed the update/control-labels branch from 27cd670 to 84f5232 Compare August 1, 2022 04:02
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Thanks for continuing to refine this one @mirka 👍

All the issues I encountered in my initial review have been resolved (#42795 withstanding). It appears that the other feedback received has also been addressed.

I left one other minor question but am happy to give this a green light from me. Nice work!

@@ -120,12 +120,9 @@ export default function BoxControl( {
<Root id={ id } role="group" aria-labelledby={ headingId }>
<Header className="component-box-control__header">
<FlexItem>
<Text
id={ headingId }
className="component-box-control__label"
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I take it we are ok removing the components-box-control__label class here given the BoxControl is still exported as experimental?

I ask, as later in this PR, we keep the components-form-token-field__label class desite removing the styles for it.

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Great catch! I am actually quite inclined to remove unused CSS classes even if they are in stable components, unless it's a class that we can imagine a lot of third-party consumers to be overriding in a crucial way (e.g. components-popover__content). (@ciampo Does that sound about right or should we be more conservative about it?)

The reason I left components-form-token-field__label intact is more because it's being used as a selector in an old e2e test 🙃

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Sorry for the late answer, I'm currently a bit behind on my review queue 😅

I believe we should address this situation in a more general way (and potentially even add a paragraph about the strategy we decide to adopt to the contributors' guidelines).

In general. I'd love to remove hardcoded classnames — in practice, it may cause breakage for consumers that rely on them.

Should we consider the removal of hardcoded classnames a breaking change?

  • On one hand, hardcoded classnames are not part of the public APIs of the components (except for a these 4 components 🤦 ) — and so, technically it would not be a breaking change
  • On the other hand, hardcoded classnames have been used outside of the package for years (both inside and outside the Gutenberg repo).

For example, even in the case of the removal component-box-control__label, we're not 100% guaranteed that it won't cause breakage to some external consumers.

In general, I believe we should at least aim at removing all instances of component-* classnames outside of the components' package. After that, depending on how conservative we want to be, we could:

  • also delete the hardcoded classnames in the source components
  • keep them as "legacy" support, but add a ESLINT rule forbidding their usage in Gutenberg (although this won't stop external consumers from using them)

What do folks think?

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I believe we should address this situation in a more general way (and potentially even add a paragraph about the strategy we decide to adopt to the contributors' guidelines).

Absolutely, I don't think it's explicitly written anywhere.

Should we consider the removal of hardcoded classnames a breaking change?

Could it cause breakage? Yes. Should we consider it a Breaking Change? No.

I was a consumer of the wp-components package before coming to the maintainer side, and I was never under the impression that CSS classnames (or styling, or DOM structure, for that matter) were guaranteed not to change. I think most people realize that overriding internal styling is fragile, and that it's their responsibility to protect against breakage if they are going to do so. Unless these classnames are publicly documented, as in the examples you raised 😅

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Personally, I agree with the notion that while it might cause breakage, we shouldn't necessarily consider it a breaking change. That said, I think communication and documentation will be key to maintaining as much good will as possible.

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Agree with both of you. I opened #43083 to keep track of this task separately

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For reference, the project does have existing documentation about backwards compatibility around class names and DOM updates.

Class names and DOM nodes used inside the tree of React components are not considered part of the public API and can be modified.

Changes to these should be done with caution as it can affect the styling and behavior of third-party code (Even if they should not rely on these in the first place). Keep the old ones if possible. If not, document the changes and write a dev note.

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Thank you @nerrad ! Seems to align with our thoughts above

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