{"id":9693,"date":"2021-06-15T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/design\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:18:51","slug":"a-walk-around-the-table-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/design\/2021\/06\/15\/a-walk-around-the-table-block\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk Around\u2026 The Table Block"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post I\u2019d like to talk about the Table BlockBlock<\/span> Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.<\/span><\/span><\/span> and propose several improvements and enhancements. Many of these changes require implementing one important feature: multi-cell selection. Others, like improving the initial placeholder state, could be addressed independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to check out all the designs mentioned in this post, here\u2019s the Figma file<\/a> that contains all the designs covered below, along with some explorations and references. I\u2019ve also opened a tracking issue on GitHub<\/a> to organize the work around this block. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve centered my work around these five main areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n