New post/page: The Title border is blue

[ScoutHarris]

Expected behavior

Using the block editor, when creating a new page/post, the Title border was previously grey.

Actual behavior

Using the block editor, when creating a new page/post, the Title border is now blue.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Create a new post/page. Notice the blue box around the Title.

iPad:

iPhone:

Tested on [all], iOS [all], WPiOS [14.0]

[oguzkocer]

I have looked into this issue in WPAndroid and although I didn't get anywhere concrete, my findings so far may be of help.

• Block Editor in Calypso also has a border for at least some blocks: https://cloudup.com/cDCHqmziOjf
• An inspection of the views in the Android Layout Inspector or Stetho's Elements tab didn't reveal anything useful except that the block highlighted has focus.
• On Android, I suspected maybe the focus was the issue because since API 26, if something has focus it can be highlighted with this property: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#attr_android:defaultFocusHighlightEnabled. However, I can see the border even in API 24. (I am still not 100% sure it's not related to this)
• The borders look exactly the same(?) on iOS and Android

I am fairly certain that these are added from the Gutenberg codebase, so it's probably best to get someone from the Gutenberg mobile team to have a look at it. They'd have more knowledge about how to debug things in React native and have the necessary tool setup.

Hope this helps!

[designsimply]

I asked @iamthomasbishop about this and here's what I found:

Short version: that’s the expected style because of a change in border-color 😀

Long version: We switched to use stronger borders while working on some of the nested blocks work, but I also just proposed a refinement to how we highlight selected blocks. I am also considering a slightly weaker border color, but I’d like to give it some time because I think it’s mostly noticeable because we’re used to seeing a very dim gray border.

Based on that feedback, I am closing this issue as works-as-expected. Thank you @ScoutHarris for raising the issue and @oguzkocer for looking into it and @iamthomasbishop for the design decsion explanation!