Full-width blocks touching browser edges

[alaczek]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A couple content-based blocks (Archives, Categories, Latest Posts, Latest Comments ) offer full-width option, but have no basic styles built in to ensure the content does not touch browser edges. This puts the responsibility of implementing basic margin/padding styles on the theme authors.

Here's how this looks like in TwentyTwenty:

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if some basic horizontal spacing was built into these blocks, to ensure they look ok out of the box.

[nielslange]

Seems to be related to #20589 (review) and according to #20589 (comment) this issue seems to be fixed.

[alaczek]

Hmm... I don't see any of the block mentioned above make use of columns under the hood. Also, this issue happens on desktop, as well as mobile.

[nielslange]

My bad, I thought these issues were related to each other. 🤭

[MDWolinski]

Was discussed in Design meeting today. One thought is that a full width block is expected to touch the browser edges and if the theme wants change that behavior, it should be the theme that defines that.

[paaljoachim]

Any additional comments to this issue?
Should we close it or do something else with it...?

[mapk]

@ItsJonQ is there a global style control being worked on for adjusting padding/margins on blocks?

[paaljoachim]

Brainstorming coming up...
Ahh this could be a kind of content width and margin for blocks.
Or like a content is 90% of the width of the screen.
If one wants a blocky kind of feel one might do less. Have a border + border radius around the content. Perhaps even a drop shadow.

EDIT: I added this comment: #26633 (comment)
Showing a visual to give a better idea of what I am talking about.

[carolinan]

I expect full width blocks that has text content or form elements to have some default horizontal spacing, otherwise they become difficult to read.

But these should be editable with settings/global styles.

[ItsJonQ]

is there a global style control being worked on for adjusting padding/margins on blocks?

@mapk There's a Padding spacing tool available, but I believe it's only activated for certain blocks at the moment.

[mtias]

I think this is no longer relevant with the global styles layout tools.