Issue #2850💬 AnsweredOpened June 22, 2020by Aiyush-G0 reactions

Add Dropdown to block using Traits

Quick answerby cartifon

I'm not sure if you can change the block once you added it.... Maybe you should just have classes to add to the blocks, that you can change the color, size or something like that. You can take a look on the CSS composer for it. https://grapesjs.com/docs/api/css_composer.html#add

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Hi @artf , I hope that you are well, I was wondering whether you could help me with some simple issue that I am having (I have recently started using GrapeJS. Issue: using a plugin create a block and within the traits section have a drop down that changes the type of block displayed. Here is my current plugin code which displays two blocks: I would like a dropdown to appear in the settings (traits) tab where I can select other options for content e.g: Simple Block ------------> Red ------------> Orange ------------> Yellow And then change the content accordingly as follows: Red: content: '<di...

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cartifonJune 24, 2020

I'm not sure if you can change the block once you added it.... Maybe you should just have classes to add to the blocks, that you can change the color, size or something like that.

You can take a look on the CSS composer for it.

https://grapesjs.com/docs/api/css_composer.html#add

artfJuly 2, 2020

@Aiyush-G I think you should create a custom component with that trait which then changes the content, the block itself would just contain that component

Aiyush-GJuly 2, 2020

Hi yes, this is what I was thinking, would you mind doing an example for me that changes the html content e.g. choosing red shows your chose red as a <p> tag and if you choose orange that is shows you chose orange and a <p>

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