WIP: Try surfacing content inspector controls for contentOnly inner blocks
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Thank you for exploring this :)
I agree that this seems the most viable path to accomplish this today. But I worry if I take a step back and think though how I would want this to work if we had started with this from the beginning and I don't think adding a special group for this is where I would end up. Fundamentally this will mean that we have to duplicate controls for the regular mode and the content only mode. If backwards compatibility were no issue here I would have rather suggested we do it similarly how the toolbar for content only works today where you can get the block editing mode and then decide which controls you want to surface. But if we were to go that route that would mean that every single block ever written would need to add the check to their controls to hide any non-content relevant settings... I thought @gziolo was also exploring some ways to show/hide certain settings for the block bindings API. I wonder whether there are already any outcomes he can share on the topic :) |
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Flaky tests detected in e08be19. 🔍 Workflow run URL: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/actions/runs/8536264007
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I've been thinking about that too. Another drawback is that if a block wants to do something a little more custom for content only mode, like surfacing the controls in a different way or order that becomes difficult to achieve. With the conditional rendering route it can also lead to some convoluted code to avoid empty Pros and cons. I'll definitely try exploring some alternatives. |
Actually there's a good example of that already in this PR, where I'm using a single ToolsPanel to group the content controls, while normally for an image block 'title' renders in the advanced section. |
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Pushed a commit that only drills down into blocks that have controls (e.g. image): Kapture.2024-04-05.at.17.00.28.mp4A tricky thing is figuring how to display the a chevron The image is unselected at this point so it's inspector controls also aren't rendered, and so we can't tell whether it has any or not. Schroedinger's InspectorControls. 🤔 |
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Also just want to note the accessibility implications here. If you are dynamically updating the inspector, please watch for possible scenarios where we might have focus loss. Other than that, not super familiar with the site editor work these days so I'll step out. Thanks. 👍 |
Thanks @alexstine. It's a good flag, as it might be tricky to get focus management right on this PR (or at least matching user expectations). When it's a little bit more developed I'll make sure to get some feedback. |
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I think we can also update the comment here.
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What should we display if the display info is still loading or it doesn't have a title here?
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I wonder if the focus should return to the block itself or the parent <NavigationItem> instead.
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This feels a bit weird to me (two-way syncing). Could we instead calculate the contentOnly blocks using a memoed selector? I think this would mean keeping a static list of supported blocks though 🤔.
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@talldan I've refreshed this but also broken it in the process: the chevron shows in the list of locked children but on click the block inspector does not show. |
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I'm hesitant that we're introducing additional complexity to writing/content only, when the experience doesn't need this currently. Navigating between tabs, then in and out of drill down can be exhaustive. |
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@richtabor this would be a way to allow us to implement something in the vein of #65699 - where some blocks can have subsequent editing controls enabled. |
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What?
See #60021, #57911
Related #65699
This is an exploratory PR that modifies
contentOnlymode to show some inspector controls for selected child blocks, starting with the image block. It's a potential first iteration to solving #60021 more thoroughly and solves some issues for the image block, but I also plan to explore a fuller implementation of that issue in parallel.The difference between this and
trunkforcontentOnlyparents:contentOnlyinspector controls are displayed.How?
<InspectorControls>contentOnlygroup is introduced for blocks to show content controls in the inspectorcontentOnly<InspectorControls>group to be shownSome potential changes that could improve this:
useBlockEditingMode)trunk. An arrow could be used to indicate the blocks that can be drilled into.trunkwith the toolbar controls)Testing Instructions
contentOnlygroup) and add an image and a paragraphScreenshots or screencast
Kapture.2024-04-03.at.17.16.04.mp4