Add Block: Text

[mtias]

Attributes

• Alignment: Left, Right, Center.
• Formatting bar.

Markup

<p>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>

States (see all)

[joyously]

Is the Text block for when you already know you have text? Or a generic block that anything can be typed into? The reasoning is that paragraphs can contain phrasing content only, not flow content. So if you know it's only text, use <p>. But if there is flow content, (<table>, <pre>, <blockquote>, <div>, <hr>, <h1-6>, etc.), you better use <div> or split these to separate blocks as they are entered (think cut and paste).

[mtias]

The idea is all those would be separate blocks, but remains to be seen in implementation how it works.

[aduth]

How should the markup look if the text is aligned?

Currently it's applied as an inline style attribute (style="text-align: center;").

We may want to consider moving away from this, or at least allow themes to define support for a better alternative (styles applied via class?) not too much unlike the html5 theme support.

[joyously]

Typically, if you select a portion of the text to style, it would be by adding a <span> wrapper with an inline style. Much as I don't like inline styles, for text alignment and bold and italic, I think they are okay.
If no text is selected, I assume the block is, and the inline style would go on the block's tag.

[jasmussen]

As a small update on this, we should explore two approaches for writing and wrangling text in the editor:

1. a paragraph is a single block with controls docked at the top of this block
2. multiple paragraphs in succession is a single block, with controls docked at the top of the block

We should build both, see which one works best, and keep only the one that works best. See #447 (comment) for a mockup.

[jasmussen]

Closing as fixed 🎉