Block Format Plugin

Overview

This plugin provides access to various less-common block formats, as opposed to headings and lists.

UI Components

Block Format Menu Button

• Label: Format
• Other options for label:
  • Block Format
  • Format Block
  • Paragraph Format
  • Format

Menu

Menu items

• Block quotation
• Preformatted text
• Address
• --------
• Normal text
• Help

Behavior

• With the exception of the Help item, which opens a dialog box, these behave as toggle buttons, applying and removing the specific block format for the element with the cursor.
• Toggling a block format off changes the element to:
  • If the element if not contained in another block element, apply the P element
  • If the element is in another block element, just remove the block format tag
• If a menu item is active (the cursor is in a block corresponding to one of the menu items), a checkmark should appear in the left gutter. Potentially, there could be multiple checkmarks when block formats are nested.
• 'Normal Text' removes all block formats that are active and changes the outermost element to a P element
• If the element with the cursor is in a list or table, this operation does not affect the containing list or table markup.

Functionality

Block quotation

• Use CKEditor functionality from Blockquote plugin

Preformatted text

• Apply the PRE tag to the context block

Address

Normal text

Help

A11yFirst Help plugin with parameter for block format help

To Do

• Reach consensus on the functional pieces of this plugin: What are the menu items and what exactly will each one do?
• Requirements for Preformatted text
• Requirements for Address