Template vs Content Editing UX: enable the ability to hit return from post title to begin writing

[annezazu]

What problem does this address?

I wanted to pull this experience out of this prior issue #42481 as it greatly impacts the writing experience in the Site Editor and has an outsized impact compared to locked blocks due to the current UX. Currently, when you click on the Post Title, you're unable to click return to start writing on the first line. This differs from the Post Editor, making it hard to start writing from the top of a page:

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This came up previously as part of FSE Outreach Program feedback that I'll reshare below:

I created a new page in Site Editor > Pages and titled it ‘Resume’.
I added content such as headings and text and tried to insert a table of contents block.
I wanted to insert the table of contents block between the title and the first block, so I moved the cursor to the page title with the mouse and pressed enter, but could not move it to the content area.
When creating pages in the block editor as before, I was able to bring the cursor to the top of the content using the same operation (strictly speaking, I was able to insert a paragraph block at the beginning), so I felt that a similar UX would be fine.

What is your proposed solution?

Allow the ability to hit return out of the Post Title block.

cc @SaxonF

[annezazu]

If I'm reading this PR correctly #56671, this can be closed out as resolved. I'll loop back to double check with GB 17.3.

[richtabor]

Doesn't seem to fix this; testing on trunk.

[annezazu]

😭 Bummer. @youknowriad did something change here? This is noted in the PR description:

For example this PR brings some niceties of the post editor to the site editor post only mode like hitting "Enter" from the post title to go to the post content.

This is such a frustrating sticking point right now.

[youknowriad]

Nothing changed, here, it's currently implemented when you disable "template previewing" from the template dropdown. I don't think it makes sense to enable this elsewhere in the "regular mode", the reason is simple, the post content block won't always follow the post title block, it depends on the template.

[jasmussen]

Title to post content through Enter, the sticking point here is mainly that it selects the block first. To Riad's point, post content isn't always below the title. A quick GIF showing this case:

Shown here, title, featured image, post content. The latter is editable, but pressing Enter in the title does nothing. Because I'm editing page content in the site editor and the list view shows all three blocks locked.

But I can still select the featured image block with the cursor. Can we just make it so pressing Enter selects the next block? In the example above, it'd select the featured image. Enter again would focus the post content block.

[annezazu]

I think that's a great solution -- it moves you to the next editable field.

[annezazu]

This is even more apparent now that the template is shown for all new pages #62304 (comment)

[ellatrix]

I can revisit #63484 soon, as far as I remember it's just a matter of looking at the e2e tests and make adjustments.