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Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#37449 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)

The [X] on the link modal in the editor is confusing

Reported by: magicroundabout's profile magicroundabout Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.5.3
Component: Editor Keywords:
Focuses: ui, administration Cc:

Description

This is a UI/UX issue with the pop-up link modal.

It's common design pattern to have a cross icon on a modal to close the modal. In the pop-up link modal in the editor the X DELETEs the link, rather then closing the modal. The number of times I've accidentally deleted a link is really confusing. Here's the visual:

https://cldup.com/_aHRv9tP6k.gif

I know that there's a tooltip that says "delete", but once I've seen the [X] it's easy to go straight for it and click before my being processes the tooltip content.

I also know that the correct action for closing the modal is to click "somewhere else", but this has no affordance.

Suggestions:

  • Use a text "Close" label instead of/as well as the [X]
  • Add an extra icon, like a trashcan or something, for delete, make the [X] close the modal.

Change History (4)

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by clorith. View the logs.


8 years ago

#2 @SergeyBiryukov
8 years ago

  • Component changed from General to Editor

#3 @SergeyBiryukov
8 years ago

Add an extra icon, like a trashcan or something, for delete, make the [X] close the modal.

Could we reuse the existing Unlink icon?

#4 @ocean90
8 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to duplicate
  • Status changed from new to closed

Duplicate of #37278.

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