Suggestion: simple content editor with advanced controls behind an "advanced" tab

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#1

There’s been a lot of discussion about the new v2 elements having “too many” controls, or being too complicated for the end-user (our clients) to be able to make sense of.

I have a suggestion which I think might be easy to implement and make sense. Here it goes:

First, we need to establish why someone is opening the element inspector in the first place. They are usually doing one of these:

  1. modifying or adding text/images/content
  2. modifying or adding styles such as padding, margin, borders, backgrounds, etc.

The problem is, the end user only needs to do #1, but when we as developers are building the site, we need access to a lot of #2

I feel like separating v1 element with v2 is not the best way to go about this. Instead I propose we separate the controls themselves so that getting to the content editor is super easy and getting to the advanced controls just requires a little click to reveal those options.

Here’s a visual example of what I’m talking about: https://cl.ly/1W3j2y1q1t40

#2

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#3

Thanks for putting this in the right place @Jack - but as I read the descriptions, should this go in “Peer to Peer” since it’s a suggestion? It doesn’t matter to me - I just want to know what you all think of my suggestion. Thanks!

#4

Hi William,

I will forward your suggestions and mockup to our developers.

Cheers!

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#5

I just presented a new website to a client today and I strongly feel that this would be a welcomed change. As a developer I want to see all of those controls, but my client was overwhelmed by them. It makes sense to have the content box quickly accessible while putting the advanced controls behind a caret dropdown. Thank you for passing this suggestion along @Joao

#6

Hey There,

You’re most welcome and thank you for the feedback as well.
If you need anything else we can help you with, don’t hesitate to open another thread.

Best Regards.

#7

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