[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #56734: Missing newlines in Block Editor code

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#56734: Missing newlines in Block Editor code
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 Reporter:  markhoney                            |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |  Milestone:  Awaiting
                                                 |  Review
Component:  Editor                               |    Version:  6.0.2
 Severity:  normal                               |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, administration, coding-          |
  standards                                      |
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 When the new Block Editor generates code, parent/child blocks add a
 newline between the block comment and block HTML, but none before the
 block comment. This makes code hard to read, and could be improved by
 adding two newlines before a block comment. As an example, here's some
 code generated by a "columns" block with a heading block inside the first
 column:

 <!-- wp:columns -->
 <div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column
 {"verticalAlignment":"center","width":"60%"} -->
 <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center" style="flex-
 basis:60%"><!-- wp:heading {"textAlign":"left","level":4} -->
 <h4 class="has-text-align-left">Heading</h4>
 <!-- /wp:heading -->

 This would be much easier to manually manage if it looked like this:

 <!-- wp:columns -->
 <div class="wp-block-columns">

 <!-- wp:column {"verticalAlignment":"center","width":"60%"} -->
 <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center" style="flex-
 basis:60%">

 <!-- wp:heading {"textAlign":"left","level":4} -->
 <h4 class="has-text-align-left">Heading</h4>
 <!-- /wp:heading -->

 A quick look at a couple of pages' code suggests that successive sibling
 blocks do appear to add newlines before/after in a way that makes them
 readable. The next part of the example code above is much more readable
 and looks like this:

 <!-- wp:heading {"textAlign":"left","level":4} -->
 <h4 class="has-text-align-left">Heading</h4>
 <!-- /wp:heading -->

 <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} -->
 <p class="has-text-align-left">Text here</p>
 <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

 <!-- wp:heading {"textAlign":"left","level":4} -->
 <h4 class="has-text-align-left">Another heading</h4>
 <!-- /wp:heading -->

 There's a similar issue with closing tags. The end of my test page looks
 like this:

 <!-- /wp:image --></div>
 <!-- /wp:column --></div>
 <!-- /wp:columns -->

 It would be much more helpful if it looked like this:

 <!-- /wp:image -->

 </div>
 <!-- /wp:column -->

 </div>
 <!-- /wp:columns -->

 Is this something that can be fixed/improved upon?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56734>
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