Page List Block Formatting/Alignment Settings

[synora]

What

This blocks lacks alignment and formatting. It would be nice to have more controls like alignment settings and color changes

Why

This block seems like a close relative to the List Block-which offers a variety of settings, including the ability to adjust colors.

versus the Page List Block

More formatting/alignment options will give our users greater customization power when this block is on a post/page.

How

No response

[creativecoder]

Note that these formatting options for the List block come from the RichText component (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/trunk/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text) from the @wordpress/block-editor package.

We could propose adding some of these options to the Page List block in the Gutenberg plugin, though I think only a small subset of them make sense, like bold, italics, and underline. Adding inline code or strike-through options to a list of pages doesn't make much sense, in my opinion.

Also, the list of pages is generated dynamically, so it probably makes more sense to use block styles, such that any style options selected apply to all pages in the list. This would mean using the Block supports API, instead, for example: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/1b0ff7e8606cde2b71270f7744897eb2819eecd7/packages/block-library/src/post-title/block.json#L41

[Addison-Stavlo]

There is a related core issue/request here - WordPress/gutenberg#36537

Cylon is not currently working towards this and I'm going to remove it from our board.

[zachspears]

This has popped back up in the PA Triage board, given the related core issue and that this functionality is no longer handled within wp-calypso, I am closing the issue for now.