Add Grid interactivity #59052
Add Grid interactivity #59052
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This will not be visible when the theme background is greyish. I'd go with a color-mix(in srgb, var(--wp-admin-theme-color) 20%, transparent); or so.
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This'll need a rebase now the column span refactor is merged. I'm playing around with a grid of images and the duplicated handles are a bit confusing: Would it make sense to hide the Image block resize drag handles when inside a grid? |
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This is a very cool experiment!
One thing we should probably consider is updating the grid visualisation when parent or child values are changed via the sidebar controls. It might not be a huge deal for the children but for the grid itself I think folks might want to tweak column number etc. as they're manipulating the contents:
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Great feedback, thanks @tellthemachines! |
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Still working on this. When ready I'll put the changes behind an experimental flag and mark the PR as ready for review. |
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Just playing around with this and noticed that multiple resize actions on the same block only create one undo level: b324f483-0dff-4391-b735-027a2d0d5cd8.mp4I'm thinking it might be better for each resize to be separately undoable if possible? Apart from that it's working very smoothly! Only being able to drag right and bottom can be annoying depending on the position of the block being dragged (if it's the bottom right block we have to sort of move it around until it's draggable? Or use the sidebar controls) but this is a pretty great start for an experimental feature! |
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So what happens if we enable "left" and "top"? I'm guessing it breaks somehow? 😄
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I think there's a bug in ResizableBox or something because it just goes crazy 🤪 We can look at adding it later if it feels like we need it.
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This is the third instance of this function in the block-editor package, might be worth consolidating (as a separate task)
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The refactor in #59227 brings it down to 2! Getting close... 😂
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Very cool, this is really fun to play with, too. Not a blocker for this PR I don't think, but something I noticed while playing around is that if the column span on a block is larger than the number of columns available, the manual column number of the parent Grid block doesn't force the blocks down to that number of columns. It's a little hard to describe, so I'll see if a video works:
At the beginning of the video we're adjusting number of column span, which is working nicely. At the end of the video, I go up to the Grid block to reduce the number of columns, but it won't let us go down to, say, 2 columns:
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Again, not a blocker for landing this experiment, though!
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Thanks everyone! Merging this (behind an experimental flag) and will look into those bugs y'all found next week. |
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This is just how grids work: if a grid child specifies a number of columns greater than what's defined in |
The case I had in mind is a bit more subtle: I'm thinking of if someone goes to update a pattern or template that already uses a Grid that has some children that are spanning multiple columns, and then they decide to reduce the Grid down to 2 columns. In this case, they mightn't know that there are some children that have spans already set on them, so it'll look like the control isn't doing anything, and they might not know they have to go in to update those children. Definitely not a blocker for now, but I wondered if it's maybe something that could be smoothed over when the manual column count is updated? I was very much thinking of that as an idea for polish, though, not anything that needs to be fixed up immediately 🙂 |
A good way to provide visual feedback in that case would be to always show I can't think of a good way to actually force the child items to span less columns: we'd have to iterate through all the block's inner blocks in search of blocks with spans greater than the column number, and perform updates on them. It's not solvable with a container query because the total width of the grid is always the same regardless of column count. Because the scenario is a bit of an edge case, it might be better to wait and see if anyone actually runs into it before preemptively fixing it 😅 |
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This looks very cool and will become a very powerful layout tool! In a sense what is being created here will replace the Table block or in another sense bring in a very nice update to the Table block. What would be nice is an overview video of the whole experiment. Some of the motivation behind it, what the goals are, if this could also relate to device specific break points. There are so many aspect this touches upon. Having an overview video would very much help and also can be shared giving the opportunity to broaden the feedback. |
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Hey @paaljoachim. I turned #57478 into a an overview issue for this focus though it's probably lacking the exact detail you're after. Maybe @SaxonF could elaborate—he has a way with words—but the gist of it is that we want to empower users to be able to create more advanced layouts and more advanced block themes in a more intuitive way than they can currently using Group, Row, Stack, Columns, etc. Grid tools exist in other proprietary site builders and ultimately the goal is for WordPress to take market share from proprietary CMS tools. There are some parallels between Grid and the Table block, just as there are parallels between |
What?
Adds a new "Grid interactivity" experiment and adds new functionally behind this feature flag that lets the user:
GridVisualizer)GridItemResizer)Why?
#57478
How?
GridVisualizerMarginVisualizerandPaddingVisualizer.getComputedStyleto determine the computedgrid-templateand uses this to lay out boxes containing a dotted border.GridItemResizerResizableBoxon top of the grid item.Testing Instructions
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Kapture.2024-02-15.at.10.00.24.mp4