[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58416: Media Title field should soft wrap in Media Modal: For better readability/editing of long titles.

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#58416: Media Title field should soft wrap in Media Modal: For better
readability/editing of long titles.
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 Reporter:  abitofmind                           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Awaiting
                                                 |  Review
Component:  Media                                |     Version:  3.5
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-screenshots has-       |     Focuses:
  testing-info needs-testing needs-unit-tests    |  administration
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Comment (by abitofmind):

 @joedolson Could you please answer the questions from the annotated
 screenshots? Again here:

 1) In the Media Modal the ALT Text textarea allows linebreaks client side,
 and even restores them when re-opening that media file later.

 a) Where/how are those linebreak persisted? In the database only? Or is
 the browser's localstorage? Or is my web browser's web form autofilling
 playing me an illusion here? (I don't think so, but have not investigated
 it either).

 b) Is the ALT Text textarea in the other UIs/contexts (Image Insertion
 Dialog in Block Editor + Inspector Panel in Block Editor) showing the data
 as-is (they landed in the database sanitized without linebreaks) or is a
 runtime linebreak to whitespace transformation happening?

 @ all

 2) Allowing linebreaks client side in the ALT Text, is a good UX for
 structuring long text onto multiple lines. As I wrote in the screenshot
 annotation.

 a) Question: If the text is `One\n\nTwo\n\nThree` client side how is this
 persisted? As is? Or with `\n+` being transformed to a uniform singular
 whitespace?  Again If I get an answer to 1a) I would have fewer
 speculative followup questions.

 b) UX discussion: For the "Media Title" which anyhow is only for internal
 use (browsing/searching your library) and does not make it into the
 frontend output (for many versions now). Media Titles can be a bit longer
 too. But by tendency they are less long than an Alt Text (if it indeed
 gives a full/rich visual description). It seems more correct to disallow
 linebreaks also client side, to more explicitly communicate to the user
 "this is a title, which serves for lookups (almost a unique identifier),
 and which is a single line only" potentially with a length limited lower
 to than what's allowed for the alt text (I dunno).

 TL;DR: So disallowing manual linebreaks but allowing soft wrapping seems
 to be the right look & feel for the ALT Text textarea.

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