Allow section wrapper blocks to specify open and closing HTML tags

[glenviewjeff]

To solve the problem of being unable to surround multiple blocks by HTML, for instance a hyperlink anchor, add opening and closing markup tags for section blocks. It's unclear if this is the same request.

What spurred this is receiving a mobile usability warning about hyperlinks being too close together from Google Search Console. I have multiple hyperlinks to the same destination in a group of blocks.

[talldan]

@glenviewjeff Something similar was discussed on #20997, with the idea that the group block could offer more semantic variations, like section or footer. That was also explored in a pull request - #20218.

I don't think it'd work for your use case, as the group block doesn't have any link/href functionality.

#15794 also seems somewhat related, as that requests a way to wrap arbitrary HTML around blocks.

[glenviewjeff]

Yes, it seems we need the ability to somehow wrap HTML around blocks, however its achieved.

For now, it's ugly, but I'm able to work around this by surrounding the blocks I want hrefs applied to with custom HTML blocks, but when I return to edit the page, Gutenberg complains that "this block contains unexpected or invalid content" because the tags aren't closed. I think that's what #15794 is referring to?

[talldan]

Yep, that's the same issue as #15794.

As there are two other open issues covering the same topic as this one, I'll close this as a duplicate.