Remove Button component from social link block, replace with button element
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Changes LGTM! Thanks for the quick update 🚀
✅ Updates are confined to the editor
✅ Social Links buttons appear the same on trunk and this PR
✅ Switching block styles that impact things like padding are displayed correctly
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I'm glad we only had to replicate a reduced set of the button components styles to achieve the same look. This will definitely help unblock the reduction of specificity for block style variations in #61032.
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Would we be able to lower the specificity here? If we ever want to support border or typography styling for this block, these styles could interfere.
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I was planning to look at dropping the specificity here over in #61032 as the block style variations need it as well
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Dev Note (draft)As of WordPress 6.6, the social link block will no longer output the Themes targeting this class name should use the existing It's expected that most themes will be doing this already, so for most it should require no change. Why was this class name present?The class name was a side-effect of using the Why is this being changed?
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What?
Fixes #61269
See #61032 (comment) for some background. This PR ties in to the work to improve the block variation styles feature as a means to achieving section styles. That work requires block specificity to be as low as possible, which this change helps with.
The social link block is currently using the
@wordpress/componentsButtoncomponent for its in canvas UI.This PR replaces it with the standard
buttonelement while keeping the same styles.Why?
There are a few reasons why using the
Buttoncomponent isn't a great idea for the editor canvas:components-buttonclass name - this is the reason why a dev note will be needed for this PR.@wordpress/componentscomponents have, whereas for blocks we need to keep the specificity as low as possible so that extenders have a comfortable time implementing styles.@wordpress/componentscomponent are not available in the editor canvas iframe, so this could mean breakage in the future.@wordpress/componentsever changes to a different visual style or has a refactor it could break the blockHow?
Use a normal
<button>element. Some styles from the components package need to be replicated in the block, but this is fairly minimal.Testing Instructions
trunkin the editor