Really liking the new Grid list block so far. I assume that it’s a totally new infrastructure given how fundamentally different it is from other list blocks, and I’m excited to review documentation on it to understand what it enables (including event listeners and other custom code extensibility). However, it (and the Grid list details block) seems more like it should be labeled ‘Beta’ at this point rather than ‘New.’ In addition to the known issue with cover media + lookup fields, it appears that list filtering with URL is not yet supported in the new Grid list block as documented for other list blocks. And the new approach to top/bottom padding for the block is very limited compared to legacy blocks (and makes it hard to be consistent across pages that use any other blocks).
I’m very grateful for the continued feature velocity, but I think this release could have used some better (any?) communication (and testing) before showing up in the editor without any caveats.
I would also expand on the styling issues: it seems to be impossible to style the text (sizes) in the block for consistency with other blocks and creates more problems than it solves.
It seems there can be two action buttons visible, and that’s progress, but why only two?
I like the idea of Sections introduced by this block. Again, the formatting options are limited and I can’t find any documentation for the two new blocks.
I’ve spent a bit more time with the block and there are a couple more issues:
In the Top Section, when text colour/size is changed in the editor it does not change on the page or published site.
There are three text sizes: small, medium, large - the largest size to format tags is .6875rem (inspected with Developer Tools).
In other blocks there are many (16)? font sizes to choose from 3XS to 10XL.
I’d love to use the new blocks, but at the moment they don’t offer sufficient range of (working) customisation to be workable. Will there be further updates to these blocks soon please?
I’m also in love with the new Grid List and List Details modules. Let me add a few more things to keep improving them. These I have found are still making me having to use a combination of the old modules with the new ones to get to the style that I want, but I’m sure we’ll get there soon:
Action buttons that open an external URL don’t disappear when the Airtable URL field is empty. This was a behaviour of the old Action buttons that is not working with the new ones, so we end up with empty action buttons that do nothing on click when that field for that record is empty
Fields at the Top Section disappear when deleted, and there’s no way to bring them back. This makes it necessary to delete the entire block and create a new one from scratch if you regret the decision of deleting them. If you are going to block the Top Section to some default fields, then the hide option of the ‘old’ blocks was a better way to do it imo
[bug] On content Sections that are in row layout, the content goes back to grid layout when the Label is empty.
Styling of the Top Section quite limited. Just to reiterate on what’s been mentioned already, I’d love some more styling options for the top section. Specifically centering of the Top Section content in the middle of the page and allowing to make the cover and text larger.
Keep up the amazing work. I can’t wait to see the rest of the new modules!
The new blocks are growing on me, so I’m persevering and really pleased to read that the feedback is appreciated and that there are further improvements to be released.
In the editor, long text fields do not have rich text formatting options; markdown is also not rendered on page.
Hey Mark, will it work if you simply define the height in your embed HTML code and we remove all controls for that field (so height will just be whatever you set)?
Hello, indeed, we appreciate your feedback a lot. I would like to let you know that the rich text formatting is already live, now Grid and Item details blocks support rich text formatting.
Please check it out on your end too and in case of any issues, let me know
