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Archive Block: Prevent spacing styles and additional CSS classes from being printed twice #44438

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@t-hamano t-hamano commented Sep 25, 2022

Follow-up on:

Similar to #44439
Blocker: #44491

Note: I think the double spacing is a major layout issue, so it would be a good idea to be backported to WordPress 6.1.

@edit: As per the discussion that began with this comment, it was decided to move the logic for filtering the block support attributes to the ServerSideRender component itself. Once the appropriate prop is added to the ServerSideReder component, the code changes in this PR will be simpler. This PR will be placed on freeze until a PR regarding improvements to ServerSideRender is submitted and merged.

@update: Now that #44491 has been merged, the new skipBlockSupportAttributes prop of the ServerSideRender component is available. This allows us to solve the problem this PR addresses in a simpler way.

What?

This PR fixes a problem in the editor where block support inline styles and additional CSS classes are rendered twice.

Why?

This is because this block uses the ServiceSideRender component and receives all attributes (including styles generated by the block support).

How?

As the discussion started with this comment, there are many possible approaches for a block using the ServiceSideRender component. I have tried to solve this by not passing block support styles and additional classes to the ServiceSideRender component.

Testing Instructions

  • Add an archive block.
  • Apply some block support styles (Typography, Dimensions).
  • Add additional CSS class.
  • Confirm that the block support styles and additional CSS classes aren't applied to the ServiceSideRender component and are rendered only in the block wrapper by using the browser console.

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style: {
...attributes.style,
spacing: undefined,
typography: undefined,
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If border support is added in the future, it will be necessary to write border: undefined here.

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This doesn't filter out the fontSize or fontFamily attributes that are also used by the typography supports to generate CSS classnames. The result is that classes for those are still duplicated which goes against the stated intent of this PR.

As there are a few top-level attributes added by block supports and any block using ServerSideRender needs to remove them along with the style attribute, it seems like we might be able to address this within ServerSideRender itself rather than duplicate that logic across several blocks.

As a quick guide the following top-level attributes added by block supports come to mind;

  • fontSize
  • fontFamily
  • borderColor
  • backgroundColor
  • textColor
  • gradient

There are probably some others as well for things like align support etc.

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.wp-block-archives {
// This block has customizable padding, border-box makes that more predictable.
box-sizing: border-box;
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Added according to #43465, but will revert if this fix is not needed now.

@t-hamano t-hamano marked this pull request as ready for review September 25, 2022 03:40
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@t-hamano t-hamano added [Block] Archives Affects the Archives Block [Feature] Design Tools Tools that impact the appearance of blocks both to expand the number of tools and improve the experi [Feature] Typography Font and typography-related issues and PRs labels Sep 25, 2022
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Thank you for putting this PR together @t-hamano 👍

I ran into one issue while testing this. It doesn't remove the duplicated CSS classes as advertised. For typography classes, it would need to remove fontSize and fontFamily top-level attributes.

Screen Shot 2022-09-26 at 10 21 42 am

Taking a step back though, I do wonder if we'd be better served to move this logic of filtering out the block support attributes to the ServerSideRender component itself. It saves us from having to duplicate this same logic across several blocks. What do you think?

I'd also like to touch base with @kevin940726 and @andrewserong, who have either worked on ServerSideRender or looked at issues on this front previously, to get their thoughts.

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This doesn't filter out the fontSize or fontFamily attributes that are also used by the typography supports to generate CSS classnames. The result is that classes for those are still duplicated which goes against the stated intent of this PR.

As there are a few top-level attributes added by block supports and any block using ServerSideRender needs to remove them along with the style attribute, it seems like we might be able to address this within ServerSideRender itself rather than duplicate that logic across several blocks.

As a quick guide the following top-level attributes added by block supports come to mind;

  • fontSize
  • fontFamily
  • borderColor
  • backgroundColor
  • textColor
  • gradient

There are probably some others as well for things like align support etc.

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andrewserong commented Sep 26, 2022

Taking a step back though, I do wonder if we'd be better served to move this logic of filtering out the block support attributes to the ServerSideRender component itself. It saves us from having to duplicate this same logic across several blocks. What do you think?

Thanks for the ping! From a quick read of the ServerSideRender readme, it looks like it's encouraging us not to use it:

ServerSideRender should be regarded as a fallback or legacy mechanism, it is not appropriate for developing new features against. New blocks should be built in conjunction with any necessary REST API endpoints...

It also looks like that package hasn't been updated much, so it seems the general idea from other contributors was that we should be updating blocks to not rely on the ServerSideRender component and instead be refactoring to a real-time JS-based edit view of the block, when we're adding features (like block supports)?

So I suppose I'd think of the fix in this PR (or an update in ServerSideRender) as being a shorter-term fix, rather than the ideal end state. But I think you make a good point about updating ServerSideRender to do the skipping. If there's a consistent structure we want across each of the blocks that currently use the component, perhaps we could add the logic to ServerSideRender and then a boolean prop like skipBlockSupportStyles to switch on the skipping?

From a quick skim, the blocks that currently use ServerSideRender are:

  • Archives
  • Calendar
  • Latest Comments
  • RSS
  • Tag Cloud

For some of these, I wonder how hard it'd be to do a JS-based version of the server-rendered markup? 🤔 I imagine something like Tag Cloud is likely not really worth the effort to duplicate the PHP, so now that I've written out this comment, I think I know why we're currently using ServerSideRender 😅

TL;DR: Yes, I think the idea of consolidating the logic of which attributes to skip for block supports styles is a good idea 👍

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Thanks for the extra input @andrewserong 🙇

From a quick read of the ServerSideRender readme, it looks like it's encouraging us not to use it:

My view is the blocks you noted are all old existing blocks that began using ServerSideRender about 2 years ago. Prior to a lot of the block supports that are in play today. I think it makes sense to update ServerSideRender as discussed with the long term view, as you say, to refactor these blocks away from ServerSideRender and towards a real-time JS based version.

Also, if we've released the @wordpress/server-side-render package, it would make sense that it could be used out in the wild despite encouragement against its use. In those cases, they'd also likely be getting the extra block support styles and classes.

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Thank you for the advice, @aaronrobertshaw, @andrewserong !

My view is the blocks you noted are all old existing blocks that began using ServerSideRender about 2 years ago. Prior to a lot of the block supports that are in play today. I think it makes sense to update ServerSideRender as discussed with the long term view, as you say, to refactor these blocks away from ServerSideRender and towards a real-time JS based version.

I also agree with this opinion.

According to WPdirectory's search results, there are several plugins that use ServerSideRender. Adding a property like skipBlockSupportStyles to ServerSideRender would make sense, as it would also provide a way for the developer to smoothly opt-in to block support in the future.

As for the core blocks, I think they should be refactored to be as JS-based as possible, but this is a long-term thing, and for now the priority should be to keep ServerSideRender and render global styles properly.

If you are comfortable with this direction, I would freeze #44438 and #44439 and consider a new PR to extend ServerSideRender, what do you think? 🙂

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If you are comfortable with this direction, I would freeze #44438 and #44439 and consider a new PR to extend ServerSideRender, what do you think? 🙂

Sounds good to me, thanks for your flexibility here @t-hamano!

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If you are comfortable with this direction, I would freeze #44438 and #44439 and consider a new PR to extend ServerSideRender, what do you think? 🙂

Sounds like a plan to me also. I'll happily review the new PR when it's ready 👍

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t-hamano commented Oct 7, 2022

I have added the new skipBlockSupportAttributes prop introduced by #44491.
As per the testing procedure described in the first comment of this PR, this issue should be resolved.

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Thanks for cleaning this up.

It tests well for me. I could confirm the duplicate classes and styles before checking out this PR. After doing so, the duplicates were omitted.

LGTM 🚢

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