Bug with quote block

  • Links work fine within quote blocks where you insert the links.

    Links within a caption of an Image that is right aligned and say 300px wide with quote text flowing around it does not work.

    Let me set the scenario.

    1) Set up a quote block such as the one above…. See quote block text below which has multiple paras.

    2) Next set up an image block. Set that Image block to right align and set it to be a medium image 300px wide. That image should have a caption. AND that caption should have a link. Again I have copied the caption below so you can test.

    Now merge the image block with the Quote block.

    Preview the page now and you will see that The Tempest link is NOT clickable. In my case when you mouse over it it does not go red! But its not clickable.

    In my testing if I move the image block up to a normal text block then the caption link is clickable. Also this bug appears with the default WP theme and in my Astra theme. Astra support say its a WP block bug.
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    Below is the caption for the image block

    The Windrush Generation Helped To rebuild Britain after World War II. Source: <a HREF="https://thetempest.co/2019/03/04/news/windrush-scandal-explainer/" TARGET="_blank">The Tempest</a>.

    In the above block the quote looks like this

    Background:
    The Windrush scandal erupted in 2018 where people mainly of Caribbean descent were wrongly classified as illegal immigrants, were detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation and in at least 83 cases wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office after not being able to prove their right to remain in the UK.

    This all resulted from changes initiated in 2012 by Theresa May, who as then UK Government Home Secretary, introduced the Hostile Environment Policy.

    Many of those affected had been born British subjects and had arrived in the UK before 1st January 1973, particularly from Caribbean countries as members of the "Windrush generation" (so named after the Empire Windrush, the ship that brought one of the first groups of West Indian migrants to the UK in 1948).

    The British Nationality Act 1948 gave; ‘citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies status and the right of settlement in the UK to everyone who was at that time a British subject by virtue of having been born in a British colony.’ The Act and encouragement from British Government campaigns in Caribbean countries led to a wave of immigration. Between 1948 and 1971, nearly half a million people moved from the Caribbean to Britain, which in 1948 faced severe labour shortages in the wake of the Second World War.

    Since these immigrants had a legal right to come to the UK, they neither needed nor were given any documents upon entry to the UK, nor following changes in immigration laws in the early 1970s. What's more the Home Office did not keep a record of those granted leave to remain or issue any paperwork confirming it, making it difficult for Windrush arrivals to prove they were in the UK legally. Matters were made worse in October 2010 when the Home Office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants’ arrival dates in the UK dating back to the 1950s and 1960s - these papers were often the last remaining record of a person’s arrival date, in the event of uncertainty or lost documents.

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    Hope the explanation helps

    Peter

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  • Now merge the image block with the Quote block.

    Preview the page now and you will see that The Tempest link is NOT clickable. In my case when you mouse over it it does not go red! But its not clickable.

    I’m not sure what you mean by merging the blocks, but can you please simply give us the URL to your page so we can test and see if we can figure out what may be happening?

    Thread Starter Decimus

    (@decimus)

    Hi Georg – try this and you will see it in action.

    set up an image block with a image say 1024px

    Set the caption to have a link as per my example.

    Now set the image to right aligned and medium so 300px,

    Now set up a multi para quote block

    Now move the image so that it is aligned with the Quote block

    You will have the Quote text on the left and it wraps around the right aligned medium image. If you happen to have a link in the caption then the link will not work if the block is a quote.

    I have not published the image where this is happening so cannot give you a link. I’d be happy to provide screen shots if you tell me how I can upload it for you.

    I have been able to confirm this with the default WP theme and Astra Pro. Astra support say its a WP block issue ad speak to WP which is what I am trying to do.

    Note this ONLY occurs if the right aligned 300px caption link is “merged’ with a Quote block. It does not happen if the image is merged with a normal para block

    PB

    Thread Starter Decimus

    (@decimus)

    The post is now opublished and you can see the bug in action in the right alighned image of the ship that merges with the quote block. see:

    Bug

    Thread Starter Decimus

    (@decimus)

    AM I in the wrong forum for reporting bugs. With this one I can easily replicate it and as note above you can see the bug in action in the link above..

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