What are the technical merits of Block Class? [#1964944]

Comment #1

Soundvessel CreditAttribution: Soundvessel commented 26 April 2013 at 22:40

Well from recent experience working with local and multiple staging servers we have had some blocks not have the same IDs between servers. This would allow us to target theming without worrying about these sync issues.

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Comment #2

MrPaulDriver CreditAttribution: MrPaulDriver commented 2 May 2013 at 12:42

interesting, I can see the benefits there

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Comment #3

autopoietic CreditAttribution: autopoietic commented 2 May 2013 at 10:21

Also I would suggest that if using a grid based theme a configurable block class allows the layout properties of the block to be taken care of by layout classes like 'span5' etc in bootstrap.

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Comment #4

feuillet CreditAttribution: feuillet commented 29 July 2013 at 09:08

And one big advantage is the one CSS classes have in general: you can use them multiple times within the same html document.
Just create a new block, put in your desired class and voila, theming done.
Otherwise you would have to edit the css to match the new CSS ID...

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Comment #5

MrPaulDriver CreditAttribution: MrPaulDriver commented 29 July 2013 at 11:18

I've been using this for a few weeks now and it is a big time saver. I'll never go back to targeting individual block IDs. Thanks everyone for the input.

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Comment #6

rennevat CreditAttribution: rennevat commented 10 February 2014 at 21:41

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Wanted to add that this is one our essential Drupal modules. It has also replaced modules that we previously attempted to use to enforce mobile or screen block display. Now we just add the class that defines whether it should be displayed based on screen size and the blocks render flawlessly. A "must have" module.