Group block: can't easily set a fixed width

[davewhitley]

What problem does this address?

It is very difficult and frustrating to make a simple circle shape using the editor. Take this example:

This is a simple Stack block with a background set to green and border radius set to 999. There are a couple of workarounds to set the width of the Stack block, but none are easy to understand.

1. Group the Stack block and set the content width to a px value. Select the Stack block and set the min height to a px value to set the height.
2. Use the Columns block to put the Stack block in a column and set the column width to a px value. Select the Stack block and set the min height to a px value to set the height.

I shouldn't have to group my circle element in a Group block, and I shouldn't have to understand/manipulate the "inner blocks use content width" setting to set a px width on an element.

Both of these workarounds are convoluted for a such a simple and fundamental part of web design — being able to set a px width on an element.

What is your proposed solution?

I expected to see a width setting in the Dimensions panel.

It's nice that we have min height there, but I would have preferred height.

[andrewserong]

Just to note that there is a width block support under development and slated for WP 7.0. The initial support for it landed in #71905. No blocks have been opted-in to the support just yet as there are still follow-up tasks for the block support (i.e. those listed here: #71905 (comment)). But this will be a feature to follow for this kind of use case.