Quick idea for the add block panel
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Hi all,
I was just having an on-the-fly play with concrete5's styling of the block panel and came up with something that I thought might be interesting to share.
Whilst I've always liked the block panel in 5.7, I've often thought that it was just a bit too 'chunky', finding it strange that the space for the names of the blocks is quite limited. Something like 'Next & Previous Nav' is cut off to be 'Next & Previou...' for example.
What I did was just make a few tweaks to the css to give the text some horizontal room to expand. This also puts the blocks in one column, making it easier for the eye to scan down (as opposed to left right left right). See attached.
My example is just rough, but there's no change to the underlying markup, so it would be pretty easy to implement. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Worthwhile as a proposal in github?
I was just having an on-the-fly play with concrete5's styling of the block panel and came up with something that I thought might be interesting to share.
Whilst I've always liked the block panel in 5.7, I've often thought that it was just a bit too 'chunky', finding it strange that the space for the names of the blocks is quite limited. Something like 'Next & Previous Nav' is cut off to be 'Next & Previou...' for example.
What I did was just make a few tweaks to the css to give the text some horizontal room to expand. This also puts the blocks in one column, making it easier for the eye to scan down (as opposed to left right left right). See attached.
My example is just rough, but there's no change to the underlying markup, so it would be pretty easy to implement. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Worthwhile as a proposal in github?
I usually do that using MrKD's UI improver addon.
ha, I've used that add-on a few times - looking back on what he did to make them fit on one line it's almost exactly the same appearance! Total fluke there.
I guess I was sort of having a fresh play, thinking it might be worth considering as more of core change to help readability, rather than something that requires an add-on (that then requires ongoing maintenance).
I guess I was sort of having a fresh play, thinking it might be worth considering as more of core change to help readability, rather than something that requires an add-on (that then requires ongoing maintenance).
+1
