Buttons Block: Clarify Link Settings

[thehenrybyrd]

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new Page or Post, or edit an existing one.
2. Add a new block and select the Buttons Block.
3. Type your button text.
4. In Block settings on the right, find "Link Settings".

Here you'll see a text box ("Link rel"), and if you're the average user of the internet, you'll assume that's where your link goes:

You'd be incorrect, as this is for the link rel HTML attribute.

What I expected

I expected that the Link Settings area would allow me to choose the link that clicking this button takes visitors to.

What happened instead

Instead, Link Settings includes "open in a new tab" and "Link rel" with no further explanation; entering a URL in "Link rel" results in no warnings, but of course also does not set the button link.

Instead, the link must be set in the Button Block's toolbar, which also includes a "open in a new tab" setting:

Context / Source

This came up in a chat, where the user I was working with had added their link in "link rel" under Link Settings, but the button wasn't working - clicking it didn't take them to the link. I showed them how to set up the link properly using the Button Block's toolbar, but initially I thought the field in Link Settings simply wasn't working - and this was going to be a bug report.
Instead, I realized that it was for "link rel", and this is not a bug - it's just confusing.

I'd suggest that we add a field in Block Settings > Link Settings, for the URL. Ideally, it can also be filled by searching for existing content, like the existing Block Toolbar link tool.

#19623290-hc

[lancewillett]

Thanks for the report.

Next steps (anyone, including @thehenrybyrd if you have time):

1. Check if this is WordPress.com specific — if so, note it here
2. If all WordPress sites with Gutenbeng — we'll need to log it to https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues and leave a note here to follow up with customer reports once a fix is made, and merged back to WordPress.com

[formosattic]

Link rel is a default setting in Gutenberg, the label is being reviewed for more clarity, WordPress/gutenberg#20208.

There's also ongoing work to improve the UI with editing links from the block toolbar, WordPress/gutenberg#23375.

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[mrfoxtalbot]

I do not think this is no longer relevant given the new structure of the link tools:

Marking this as fixed

(Also.. hi Alicia 👋 )