Non FSE themes: changing alignment of image in classic block breaks editing of image

[rickmgithub]

Context and steps to reproduce

1. Create a simple site.
2. Add the Classic theme(Gateway) theme
3. Create a post
4. Add a classic editor block
5. Insert a few paragraphs of text
6. Click to add an image and save it/publish it
7. Double click on the image and notice it's editable.
8. Refresh the page
9. Now try to the image to the right. Notice you can no longer select the image.

Video -

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Site owner impact

Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Moderate

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No revenue impact

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

No response

Platform

Simple

[Robertght]

I'm no longer able to replicate this on Simple or AT sites.
I believe this is because of the modal we're displaying instead.

Demo:

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I'm going to mark this as closed for now but please open it again if it's still happening.

[Robertght]

I missed an important detail. The theme.

That appears to be the key, so trying this with TwenyTwenty, Gateway or Dara renders the issue above.

I was able to replicate this on Simple and AT sites.

Would this be something fixable within the themes or this a plugin thing?

cc @dsas

[dsas]

On a vanilla WordPress, all classic block editing is done within a modal, and things behave as expected. This is both without the GB plugin and with GB 20.2.0. I tested using the Twenty Twenty theme.

On dotcom, both simple and atomic, it doesn't use a modal when using Twenty Twenty or other classic themes, but does when using Twenty Twenty Five.

I can't see anything specific in the Twenty Twenty changelog, and anyway, we're running the most recent version of Twenty Twenty too.