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Category: Widgets
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Block Grammar & Markup
<!-- wp:core/categories {"showPostCounts":false,"displayAsDropdown":false,"showHierarchy":false} /-->
Block Attributes
Optional. Type: Object.
Attributes provide the structured data needs of a block. They can exist in different forms when they are serialized, but they are declared together under a common interface.
{
"displayAsDropdown": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false
},
"showHierarchy": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false
},
"showPostCounts": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false
},
"showOnlyTopLevel": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false
},
"showEmpty": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false
}
}
Block Supports
Optional. Type: Object.
A set of options that enables or disables block controls in the editor, for example gradient colors or padding.
Align, color: background, color: text, spacing: margin, spacing: padding, typography: __experimentalFontFamily, typography: __experimentalFontStyle, typography: __experimentalFontWeight, typography: __experimentalLetterSpacing, typography: __experimentalTextDecoration, typography: __experimentalTextTransform, typography: fontSize, typography: lineHeight
{
"align": true,
"html": false,
"spacing": {
"margin": true,
"padding": true
},
"typography": {
"fontSize": true,
"lineHeight": true,
"__experimentalFontFamily": true,
"__experimentalFontWeight": true,
"__experimentalFontStyle": true,
"__experimentalTextTransform": true,
"__experimentalTextDecoration": true,
"__experimentalLetterSpacing": true,
"__experimentalDefaultControls": {
"fontSize": true
}
}
}