Mobile row actions are rather long

[arunsathiya]

The row actions for items (like posts, pages or reusable blocks) are rather long on mobile view at the moment.

The attached image is how they look at the moment. If I remember correct, they were not spaced out so much in the past.

I see some work here on this ticket https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45024 for spacing mobile row actions, but unsure if the same changes are causing the current issue.

I also did some basic search before posting this ticket; if there's an existing report for this, happy to be pointed at it!

[arunsathiya]

The row actions on the reusable blocks section of a WordPress site

[arunsathiya]

More info: This seems to be happen at 782px and lesser.

[sabernhardt]

@arunsathiya Hi and thanks for the report!

As you noticed with ticket #45024, changeset [43670] increased the link spacing on smaller screens. This intentionally creates more space between the links, mainly so it is easier to tap them with your finger.

It is supposed to arrange the links in three columns and then reduce to two at 480px and narrower, but the selector needs to be revised for the two-column adjustment. Also, the links can be quite spread out when the device/browser is between 600 and 782 pixels wide, so it's worth considering four-column layout there (or a better option).

[sabernhardt]

correcting the selector for 2-column layout

[sabernhardt]

option with 4-column layout for wider mobile widths

[sabernhardt]

4 columns at 750 pixels wide (Firefox's Responsive Mode)

[sabernhardt]

Related: on #48546, @aliveic suggested using flexbox and flex-wrap instead of grid.

[estelaris]

adding dev-feedback for core to check the spacing in code.

This updates the row actions CSS to use flexbox with a full-width layout, placing the extra space between each action item. It also updates the min-width of each item to 10em, just to keep that larger touch-target. That's an arbitrary amount, we can tweak that if another value looks better.

At 782px, it switches to the full-width flexbox layout:

Around 660px the last item wraps

Around 510px the 3rd item wraps

Around 375px, each item it on its own line

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47895