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Add an external link icon and css style. #53

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@StevenDufresne StevenDufresne commented Nov 15, 2022

External links should display an external link icon. This PR adds an svg, taken from Gutenberg, and a class to target external links.

I wasn't exactly sure what color to give the icon. I went with a moderately dark grey color from our theme.

See WordPress/wporg-showcase-2022#42.

Drawback of this approach

Since we are only using CSS and not a block or something similar, users cannot see the external icon when viewing the post in the block editor. However, I don't expect there to be many external links, and doing more work should probably be considered only if we receive feedback from teams (maybe the documentation team may find that frustrating for example).

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Default Screen Shot 2022-11-15 at 9 55 59 AM
With Element font-size: 40px Screen Shot 2022-11-15 at 9 55 47 AM
Inline Screen Shot 2022-11-15 at 10 45 32 AM
Alternative color option -- Not Implemented here Screen Shot 2022-11-15 at 9 56 41 AM

How to test the changes in this Pull Request:

  • Add a link to some post content, add external-link class to the element. Expect to the the icon.
  • Alternatively, you can add the class to the direct parent of the <a>
    • This is done in case we don't have direct access to the <a> element.

@StevenDufresne StevenDufresne added the [Component] Theme Templates, patterns, CSS label Nov 15, 2022
@StevenDufresne StevenDufresne marked this pull request as draft November 17, 2022 03:37
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Here's the updated view:

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Regular link Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 4 19 03 PM
Scales with font size Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 4 24 13 PM
Embedded link Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 4 18 35 PM
Embedded link light Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 4 18 26 PM

Notes:

  • I have added a external-link-light for places where we have dark backgrounds
  • I have also added styles in case we have access to the anchor tag directly

@StevenDufresne StevenDufresne marked this pull request as ready for review December 8, 2022 07:31
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Looks good 👍🏻

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