Blocks: Adding a placeholder when the post has no blocks #1195
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Holy guacamole I can't believe how fast you are moving! Go go go! |
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| { blocksWithInsertionPoint.map( ( uid ) => { | |||
| { ! blocks.length && ( | |||
| <button className="editor-visual-editor__placeholder" onClick={ this.appendDefaultBlock }> | |||
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Should this be onFocus so it becomes activated on tabbing from the title as well?
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I guess we need both because Firefox and Safari don't focus on click in MacOS. Or better transform this to an input
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| .editor-visual-editor__placeholder { | |||
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Are there common styles here we could extend from a base [class/SASS mixin/SASS placeholder] (or combine into a single selector) between the placeholder and actual blocks?
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Yes, I guess the "centering" behaviour could be extracted.
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It's hard to extract something meaningful really. I don't like extracting shared styles just because they are the same. My questions here are:
- How should we name the extracted shared CSS mixin?
- Is it really worth it if it's shared between two elements only
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I don't like extracting shared styles just because they are the same.
Okay, I'd not recommend it if they're not truly "shared". I thought we were emulating block effects by duplicating them here. We can leave it as-is.
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I thought we were emulating block effects by duplicating them here.
Yes, this is what we're doing but hard to extract something meaning full without overriding a lot of styles.
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Nice, looks good! Looks like it has potential. I can't review as I'm in an airport, but it seems like it can help solve the issue where if you insert an image or other non text block, you have to click twice just to start typing again below it. @mtias had some concerns that it might be simpler to start with an actual text field, so might want his eyes, but from what I can see here, it seems like a great start. |
For now I'm only showing this if the post is empty, are you suggesting we always show this placeholder at the end of the post? |
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That was the initial idea but that idea is not yet fully formed, I think that needs a mock-up. So it's probably good to start simple. |
@aduth Yes, not related to this issue. I tried to come up with a quick fix here but it looks like it's harder than expected because we need to keep the focus styles when we click on the Copy permalink button. |
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Are there accessibility concerns in setting focus inside the text box once clicked? |
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In testing this again on master, I'm not noticing any hover effects. Did this regress somehow? |
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@aduth you're right, I found that it's due to the switch to I'll see if I can tweak the styling without using |
closes #1082
This PR adds a placeholder to empty posts. It takes the approach proposed by @jasmussen here #1082 (comment)
There's no default block selector for now. I guess this could be a global setting.