Navigation: Edit links in a popover from the sidebar List View

[jeryj]

What?

Closes #77071

Selecting a navigation link or submenu in the sidebar List View opens the same content popover that content-only List View editing uses, so existing items can be edited without leaving the List View. This works in both the site editor sidebar and the extensible site editor. The item's Options menu also gets an "Edit" item that opens the popover.

Why?

The sidebar List View can add, move, and remove navigation items, but editing an existing item's text or link meant switching to the canvas. Content-only List View editing already solves this with a popover anchored to the selected row, so this reuses that instead of adding another way to edit links.

How?

• block-editor: a new private setting, listViewContentPopoverKey, lets InspectorControlsFill route group="content" controls to the List View content popover outside of sections. A new contentPopoverProps prop on PrivateListView renders the existing ListViewContentPopover anchored to the selected row, and ListViewContentPopover accepts popoverProps to override its placement.
• The navigation link and submenu blocks are unchanged. The popover shows their own content controls (Controls), exactly as content-only editing does.
• Both sidebars enable the setting, pass the prop, open the popover on row selection, and add the Edit menu item.
• Both sidebars switch from BlockEditorProvider to ExperimentalBlockEditorProvider. The public provider strips private settings, including symbol keys, so the setting never reached the store.

The popover shows every field the block's content controls show by default outside content-only mode, including Description and Rel.

Testing Instructions

1. Create a navigation menu with a few links and a submenu.
2. Open the site editor, go to Navigation, and open the menu.
3. Click a link in the List View. The settings popover opens next to the row.
4. Change the Text. The List View row updates.
5. Open the Options menu for the submenu and choose Edit. The popover opens for the submenu.
6. Add a new item with the appender. The link search still opens, and closing it without a URL still removes the empty item.
7. Enable the "Extensible site editor" experiment and repeat in admin.php?page=site-editor-v2&p=/navigation.

Testing Instructions for Keyboard

1. Tab into the List View and move to a link with the arrow keys.
2. Press Enter. The popover opens.
3. Tab to Text and change it.
4. Press Escape. The popover closes and focus returns to the List View row.
5. Tab to the row's Options button, press Enter, move to Edit, and press Enter. The popover opens.

Screenshots or screencast

	Before	After
Site editor	before-v1.mp4	after-v1.mp4
Extensible site editor	before-v2.mp4	after-v2.mp4

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This PR was written with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5), including the implementation, the e2e tests, and the screen recordings. I reviewed and tested the changes.

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📦 Bundle size

Size Change: +175 B (0%)

Total Size: 8.25 MB

📦 View Changed

Filename	Size	Change
build/scripts/block-editor/index.min.js	516 kB	+75 B (+0.01%)
build/scripts/edit-site/index.min.js	382 kB	+100 B (+0.03%)

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⚡ Performance

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Client side metrics exclude the server response time.

front-end-block-theme

Metric	2b4845e	trunk	% Change
timeToFirstByte	56.5 ms +6.11% -3.01%	55.85 ms +19.07% -1.07%	1.16%
largestContentfulPaint	96 ms +4.17% -6.25%	92 ms +8.7% -4.35%	4.35%
lcpMinusTtfb	35.6 ms +21.63% -4.78%	33.95 ms +7.07% -3.53%	4.86%
wpBeforeTemplate	28.09 ms +7.65% -1.5%	27.77 ms +25.71% -0.43%	1.15%
wpTemplate	24.61 ms +1.63% -3.86%	24.55 ms +6.56% -3.18%	0.24%
wpTotal	52.82 ms +6.42% -2.57%	52.19 ms +18.3% -1.02%	1.21%
wpMemoryUsage	7.62 MB +0% -0%	7.59 MB +0% -0%	0.46%
wpDbQueries	17 +0% -0%	17 +0% -0%	0%

front-end-classic-theme

Metric	2b4845e	trunk	% Change
timeToFirstByte	47.85 ms +6.69% -1.57%	47 ms +10.96% -0.85%	1.81%
largestContentfulPaint	104 ms +3.85% -1.92%	104 ms +3.85% -3.85%	0%
lcpMinusTtfb	56.15 ms +0.89% -4.27%	54.95 ms +4.46% -3.09%	2.18%
wpBeforeTemplate	26.6 ms +8.61% -2.89%	25.9 ms +1.58% -1.62%	2.7%
wpTemplate	18.21 ms +3.19% -1.98%	18.24 ms +5.65% -2.74%	-0.16%
wpTotal	44.79 ms +6.85% -1.88%	44.03 ms +10.86% -1.14%	1.73%
wpMemoryUsage	6.25 MB +0% -0%	6.20 MB +0% -0%	0.71%
wpDbQueries	14 +0% -0%	14 +0% -0%	0%

media-processing

Metric	2b4845e	trunk	% Change
mediaProcessingJpeg	398.03 ms +0.73% -0.53%	401.5 ms +1.11% -1.74%	-0.86%
mediaProcessingAvif	6031.82 ms +0.27% -0.25%	6101.75 ms +0.16% -0.19%	-1.15%
mediaProcessingJpegToAvif	4164.25 ms +0.22% -0.19%	4217.51 ms +0.41% -0.14%	-1.26%

media-upload

Metric	2b4845e	trunk	% Change
jpegUploadProcessing	1454.84 ms +35.43% -1.7%	1423.68 ms +1.27% -0.86%	2.19%
pngUploadProcessing	224.98 ms +14.08% -18.36%	174.68 ms +32.03% -2.92%	28.8%
largeJpegUploadProcessing	1412.05 ms +0.33% -0.45%	1408.91 ms +0.67% -0.16%	0.22%
multipleImageUploadProcessing	1626.7 ms +27.62% -2.99%	1585.4 ms +1.62% -0.43%	2.61%

post-editor

Metric	2b4845e	trunk	% Change
serverResponse	490.41 ms +4.46% -2.19%	506.02 ms +4.2% -5.46%	-3.08%
firstPaint	234.32 ms +15.78% -6.54%	219.96 ms +6.98% -15.93%	6.53%
domContentLoaded	1087.84 ms +1.94% -3.21%	1114.88 ms +1.53% -2.47%	-2.43%
loaded	1089.06 ms +1.94% -3.2%	1116.21 ms +1.54% -2.5%	-2.43%
firstContentfulPaint	437.39 ms +4.79% -1.04%	451.31 ms +1.87% -0.86%	-3.08%
firstBlock	3266.29 ms +1.89% -0.24%	3307.34 ms +1.53% -1.55%	-1.24%
type	18.87 ms +2.54% -2.6%	17.06 ms +6.15% -1.47%	10.61%
typeWithoutInspector	17.84 ms +7.57% -3.14%	17.85 ms +9.47% -6.72%	-0.06%
typeWithTopToolbar	22.77 ms +2.72% -3.43%	22.69 ms +4.8% -3.44%	0.35%
typeContainer	8.78 ms +6.72% -8.2%	8.45 ms +3.08% -5.68%	3.91%
focus	75.57 ms +7.64% -6.47%	68.86 ms +18.97% -6.22%	9.74%
firstFocus	214.68 ms +0% -0%	189.08 ms +0% -0%	13.54%
selectAll	532.42 ms +4.17% -2.58%	546.25 ms +2.42% -5.42%	-2.53%
listViewOpen	65.06 ms +5.07% -12.04%	61.15 ms +8.01% -11.68%	6.39%
inserterOpen	22.55 ms +6.03% -12.64%	22.16 ms +13.99% -12.09%	1.76%
inserterHover	2 ms +13% -7%	2.12 ms +10.85% -16.04%	-5.66%
inserterSearch	7.85 ms +5.61% -4.2%	8.06 ms +12.53% -7.69%	-2.61%
loadPatterns	605.11 ms +5.25% -1.57%	615.74 ms +1.75% -1.97%	-1.73%
wpTotal	480.48 ms +4.65% -2.16%	495.99 ms +4.19% -5.5%	-3.13%
wpMemoryUsage	13.17 MB +0% -0%	13.13 MB +0% -0%	0.28%
wpDbQueries	54 +0% -1.85%	54 +0% -1.85%	0%

site-editor

Metric	2b4845e	trunk	% Change
serverResponse	476.46 ms +3.09% -6.92%	493.69 ms +0.97% -3.02%	-3.49%
firstPaint	242.49 ms +12% -8.25%	239.75 ms +4.56% -14.84%	1.14%
domContentLoaded	1109.13 ms +1.18% -1.35%	1112.93 ms +0.71% -0.76%	-0.34%
loaded	1110.23 ms +1.18% -1.33%	1114.09 ms +0.71% -0.77%	-0.35%
firstContentfulPaint	447.65 ms +1.15% -2.75%	440.36 ms +0.84% -1.83%	1.66%
firstBlock	4058.23 ms +1.64% -0.65%	4032.42 ms +0.65% -0.88%	0.64%
type	17.33 ms +4.21% -4.33%	16.2 ms +6.23% -4.88%	6.98%
navigate	112.75 ms +5.85% -5.84%	107.24 ms +2.61% -3.28%	5.14%
loadPatterns	1254.68 ms +9.77% -4.36%	1287.35 ms +14.21% -7.2%	-2.54%
loadPages	1026.34 ms +1.15% -0.64%	1040.82 ms +0.27% -1.37%	-1.39%
wpTotal	466.8 ms +3.22% -7%	484.41 ms +0.92% -3.15%	-3.64%
wpMemoryUsage	12.14 MB +0% -0%	12.09 MB +0% -0%	0.41%
wpDbQueries	43.5 +1.15% -1.15%	43.5 +1.15% -1.15%	0%

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🏁 Flaky tests

Some tests passed with failed attempts. The failures may not be related to this commit but are still reported for visibility. See the documentation for more information.

should cut and paste individual blocks with collapsed selection in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/copy-cut-paste.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(string).toMatchSnapshot(expected) failed

  @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
   <!-- wp:paragraph -->
  -<p>2Cut - collapsed selection</p>
  +<p>2</p>
   <!-- /wp:paragraph -->


    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/copy-cut-paste.spec.js:45:49

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