Real Button Block Component

[deborah86]

What problem does this address?

The button block component is actually a link. This creates confusion with the development of blocks and block themes. It also makes it difficult for theme and block designers to incorporate html buttons into their designs.

What is your proposed solution?

There should be a separate component for HTML links and HTML buttons .

The link block should give the developer/user the ability to style it like a button. Instead of using the paragraph block in menus, the link block would be used instead.

The block component would be used to perform browser actions such as show/hide, search, post comment, etc.

These two steps are needed:

1. Rebrand the button block to be designed link and add styles to show it as a button or a link. The link block should display as a text link when the user drags it onto the canvas to minimize the confusion between the two blocks. The user then has the ability to style the text links to look like buttons.
2. Next, there would be the creation of the button block. The button block would replace the hard-coded buttons in form elements such as the button in the search form and the button in the comment form.

[deborah86]

This is related to: Global Styles: Form elements #29167

[robruiz]

I believe it's important to point out the fact that a button block does not provide a element in the generated markup currently. This is misleading and semantically incorrect. Bad for accessibility and SEO.