Applying a link to a block

[StrangeTech]

Hi @Marius,

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate you giving your feedback.

@Marius

Since I’m also “Team <h1> → <a>”, I like the way it was implemented

I believe that we may agree more on this than it first seemed based on your response to the thread you linked. What you describe there is exactly what I also like and this is exactly what I am proposing for the <div> and <p> tags for the reasons I already mentioned in previous comments.

@Marius

Cwicly is as consistent as it can be in that regard.
There is a reason for this behaviour.
To quickly summarize it, there is no inconsitency.

As mentioned in my original message the Heading block behaves differently to the Paragraph and Div blocks, which is the inconsistency I am referring to.

@StrangeTech

When you link a Heading block, the structure will be:

<h1>
  <a href="#">
    [...contents...]
  </a>
</h1>

Wrapping the contents of the original tag with the link.

When you link a Paragraph or a Div block, the structure will be:

<a href="#">
  [...contents...]
</a>

Effectively replacing (and therefore losing) the original tag.

@Marius

What you are describing would completely go against Cwicly’s philosophy and the process that @JohnD described should always be the (default) way.

With the Heading block, a Cwicly user can simply link it and retain the <h1-6> tag in a single step.

With the Paragraph block, to retain the <p> tag, a Cwicly user needs to do the following according to the recommendation from @JohnD:

1. Apply the link to the Paragraph block
2. Wrap the Paragraph block in a Div block
3. Set the html tag of the Div block to <p>

These steps are greater in number than necessary and not intuitive for most non-technical users. None of our non-technical clients would even think to do these steps in practice. They could easily however, learn to use the Cwicly Link Dialog, which is very intuitive and user friendly.

I honestly believe that keeping the number of steps to a minimum and keeping behaviours between blocks consistent is very much in the spirit of Cwicly’s philosophy.