Layer labels
You can extend the model of your component/s and overwrite the getName function
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@artf I am loving working with GJS. I have one last thing I'd love your help on. It would be incredibly helpful to be able to customise the labels in the layer manager. I've searched high and low but not found anything. The default way it just shows and is not very helpful when wanting to navigate efficiently. <img width="204" alt="Screen Shot 2021-01-28 at 07 27 16" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2796719/106104795-d5544800-613a-11eb-97c4-762e5977e872.png"> I would really like to be able to customise these myself. In my case, I'd like to show the tagname and the id. Many thanks
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You can extend the model of your component/s and overwrite the getName function
In case this is useful for anyone, I found an easy/alternative way of doing this when a component is created.
This is how I did it: The benefit is that if the components id or tag change later it will still be updated in the layer manager and you can also rename individual components.
Thanks for reporting this, @fmay. Great question about Question : Layer labels. The recommended approach with GrapesJS is to use the event-driven API. Start here: Check the GrapesJS documentation for your specific module Look for the on() event listener method Most operations can be achieved by lis...
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