Tracking: Border Design Tools Consistency

[aaronrobertshaw]

Overview

This issue details the current state of border block support or design tool adoption across all blocks and tasks required to fill any gaps. Overall design tool consistency efforts are being tracked via the parent issue: #43241.

Legend

Value	Description
✅	Feature has been adopted and is displayed as a default control
✅ (Optional)	Feature has been adopted but is an optional control
⚠	There is a bug or issue with this block support feature's adoption
❌	Feature has been explicitly opted out of
<PR#>	Links to PR adopting the feature for this block
-	Feature has not explicitly been adopted/omitted
🛠	Implemented via an ad hoc / bespoke control
🚧	Work is in progress towards adopting this feature (no PR yet)

Block Support Adoption

Note: Deprecated blocks have been omitted from this table. e.g. Comment Author Avatar, Post Comment & Text Columns.

Block	Color	Radius	Style	Width
Archives	#63400	-	-	-
Audio	-	-	-	-
Avatar	✅ (Optional)	✅	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)
Button	✅	✅	✅	✅
Buttons	✅	✅	✅	✅
Calendar	-	-	-	-
Categories	-	-	-	-
Code	✅	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅
Column	✅	#63924	✅	✅
Columns	✅	✅	✅	✅
Comment Author Avatar	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)
Comment Author Name	-	-	-	-
Comment Content	-	-	-	-
Comment Date	-	-	-	-
Comment Edit Link	-	-	-	-
Comment Reply Link	-	-	-	-
Comment Template	-	-	-	-
Comments	-	-	-	-
Comments Pagination	-	-	-	-
Comments Pagination Next	-	-	-	-
Comments Pagination Numbers	-	-	-	-
Comments Pagination Previous	-	-	-	-
Comments Title	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)
Cover	✅	✅	✅	✅
Details	✅	❌	✅	✅
Embed	-	-	-	-
File	-	-	-	-
Footnotes	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)
Gallery	✅	✅	✅	✅
Group	✅	✅	✅	✅
Heading	✅	✅	✅	✅
Home Link - Navigation	-	-	-	-
HTML	-	-	-	-
Image	✅	✅	❌	✅
Latest Comments	-	-	-	-
Latest Posts	-	-	-	-
List	#63540	#63540	#63540	#63540
List Item	#63541	#63541	#63541	#63541
Login/logout	#63550	#63550	#63550	#63550
Media & Text	✅	✅	✅	✅
More (Read More)	-	-	-	-
Navigation	-	-	-	-
Navigation Link	-	-	-	-
Navigation Submenu	-	-	-	-
Next Page (Page Break)	-	-	-	-
Page List	-	-	-	-
Paragraph	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)
Post Author	-	-	-	-
Post Author Biography	-	-	-	-
Post Author Name	-	-	-	-
Post Comment	-	-	-	-
Post Comments Count	-	-	-	-
Post Comments Form	-	-	-	-
Post Comments Link	-	-	-	-
Post Content	-	-	-	-
Post Date	-	-	-	-
Post Excerpt	-	-	-	-
Post Featured Image	✅	✅	❌	✅
Post Navigation Link	-	-	-	-
Post Template	-	-	-	-
Post Terms	-	-	-	-
Post Title	-	-	-	-
Preformatted	-	-	-	-
Pullquote	✅	✅	✅	✅
Query	🚫	🚫	🚫	🚫
Query No Results	-	-	-	-
Query Pagination	-	-	-	-
Query Pagination Next	-	-	-	-
Query Pagination Numbers	-	-	-	-
Query Pagination Previous	-	-	-	-
Query Title	-	-	-	-
Quote	✅	✅	✅	✅
Read More	✅ (Optional)	✅ (Optional)	-	✅
RSS	-	-	-	-
Search	⚠ ✅	⚠ ✅	-	⚠ ✅
Separator	-	-	-	-
Site Logo	- <PR #48354>	-	-	-
Site Tagline	#63778	#63778	#63778	#63778
Site Title	#63631	#63631	#63631	#63631
Social Link	-	-	-	-
Social Links	✅	✅	✅	✅
Spacer	-	-	-	-
Table	✅	🚫	✅	✅
Table of Contents	-	-	-	-
Tag Cloud	-	-	-	-
Term Description	✅	✅	✅	✅
Time To Read	#63776	#63776	#63776	#63776
Verse	✅	✅	✅	✅
Video	#63777	#63777	#63777	#63777

Merged PRs

• Post Featured Image: Add border support applied to inner img #42847
• Verse: Adopt border supports #48021
• Table: Add border block support #31265
• Quote: Add border support #63544
• Media Text: Add border support #63542
• Heading: Add border support #63539
• Gallery: Add border block support #63428
• Buttons: Add border, color, and padding block supports #63538
• Social Links: Add border block support  #63629
• Paragraph: Add border support #63543
• Term Description: Add border block support #63630

[aaronrobertshaw]

An overall update on progress towards design tools consistency has been added to the primary tracking issue, including our goals for WordPress 6.1.

[t-hamano]

Update: I have added the Footnotes and Details blocks to the list.

[markhowellsmead]

Why have border radius on the details block and border style on images specifically been excluded? These make sense.

[aaronrobertshaw]

There's a fairly lengthy history regarding the details block and adopting border-radius on the original PR that implemented the block (#49808).

The TL;DR from memory is that adopting border-radius on some blocks can lead to a UX issue where the inline block inserter gets clipped and end users can no longer easily add blocks. The Column block is another example of this. I believe border radius was being only sparingly adopted until an overall solution can be found.

Regarding border-style on images, it was decided to be removed here. As we have recently had the merged global styles data added to the block editor, I think a lot of the poor experience around default border-style behaviour can now be avoided and this decision is worth revisiting.

[markhowellsmead]

Regarding border-style on images, it was decided to be removed here

Perhaps @mtias can suggest whether it's appropriate to revise this: the linked comment is getting on for three years old, and there have been so many editor improvements in the mean time.