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Enable alignments/width for all blocks by default #28349

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Related discussion #25973

We have right now some arbitrary decisions about which blocks do or do not support alignments. This PR tries to address this by:

  • Enable the "align" support flag by default for all blocks
  • Explicitly disable it for blocks without wrappers (html, classic, more, next-page, reusable block)
  • Automatically disable it for blocks in a container that is not using the default "layout" strategy. For example: columns block has orientation="horizontal" which means the layout is "flex-horizontal" which disables the alignments for its children.

This is just a POC for now just to get a sense of what really needs to be done and figure out the backward compatibility story.

@youknowriad youknowriad added [Feature] Blocks Overall functionality of blocks Needs Design Needs design efforts. [Feature] Themes Questions or issues with incorporating or styling blocks in a theme. [Type] Feature New feature to highlight in changelogs. labels Jan 20, 2021
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Cool work. I'm not seeing any controls though? I'm looking at the paragraph and was hoping to see some alignment controls in the sidebar.

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Oh I forgot to mention the paragraph block :)

That one is special because it already has an "align" attribute so I can't just go ahead and and activate the hook there. We need one of these:

1- Rename the current "align" attribute of the paragraph to "textAlign" and enable the align hook
2- Implement the block alignments in an adhoc way for the paragraph block
3- Allow defining an alternative attribute name to use for alignments.
4- Rework the "align" support hook to actually use "position" instead of "align" attribute. (position is more generic and can adapt to other kind of layouts)

I'd personally prefer 4 followed by 1 but both of these solutions have backward compatibility implications.

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Ah, thanks for the clarification. Agreed, option 4 looks good.

I see the align dropdown on the other blocks:

Screenshot 2021-01-20 at 12 43 51

Screenshot 2021-01-20 at 12 43 57

I don't think we can add more to the block toolbar to these blocks, they are already pretty heavy. I think the approach we need to take is to:

  • Add these alignments to true by default, which by default will output controls in the sidebar.
  • For some special blocks that you are likely to align more often than others, such as Image and Cover, put them in the block toolbar.

Here are some mockups from #27331 which incorporate the alignment into the sidebar:

Screenshot 2021-01-20 at 12 46 00

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Wrote a plan for this in #25973 I'm closing this for now.

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