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Add layout default value support for blocks #34194

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Based on this comment: #34189 (comment)

This PR adds support for layout default value for a block. This will be later used for blocks like Social Icons (see first explorations WIP) where currently 'hack' the flex layout styles instead of actually making it a declarative layout.

A couple more flags were added:

  1. allowSwitching - it will show the layout switcher. This will probably be augmented in future explorations with a possible supportedLayouts in a block.
  2. allowInheriting - shows the inherit toggle
  3. allowEditing - hides completely all the layout

Example for block.json in supports:

"__experimentalLayout": {
	"allowSwitching": false, // this is the default
	"allowInheriting": true, // this is the default
        "allowEditing": true, // this is the default
	"default": {
		"type": "flex",
		"column-gap": "normal"
	}
}

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const {
allowSwitching: canBlockSwitchLayout,
default: defaultBlockLayout,
} = getBlockSupport( blockName, layoutBlockSupportKey ) || {};
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I think we should have a flag to disable all layout UI: Basically you should be able to choose a default layout but do not allow changes by the user.

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I add an allowEditing = true flag and one more allowInheriting for displaying the respective control. Seems like many flags are needed.. Do you have any thoughts if we can simplify these?

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I'm not sure yet but yes, it's something we need to think about while it's still experimental.

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This is looking good. Should we add

__experimentalLayout: {
     default: { type: 'flow' },
     allowEditing: false
}

to all the Core blocks like "Cover", "Media & Text", "Post Template"... (all the container blocks that are vertical/flow) in order to support the "block gap" theme.json config properly?

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mmm tried testing a bit here while it works well for post-template, it seems to break the design for cover an media & text.
The reason for that seems to be that the layout styles are applied the "wrapper of the block" instead of the "wrapper of the inner blocks". Meaning gap styles don't work properly for Cover and Media & Text.

So I guess these two blocks will have to wait for another PR (potentially trying to find a way to apply the layout styles to the right wrapper), for now we should remove the __experimentalLayout from these two blocks.

@ntsekouras ntsekouras merged commit b2b35ba into trunk Aug 20, 2021
@ntsekouras ntsekouras deleted the add/block-layout-default-value-support branch August 20, 2021 14:17
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