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Cover block: empty block shows as black box on frontend

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#10,854 opened on Oct 21, 2018

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Good First Issue[Block] Cover[Feature] Blocks[Priority] Low[Status] In Progress[Type] Enhancement

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Description

Describe the bug If you insert a cover block and don't upload any image or video, it will appear as a black box in the frontend.

Expected behavior If the block in the backend is empty, I would expect the placeholder not to render any content.

Tested with Gutenberg 4.1 RC 1 + Twenty Seventeen as well as Twenty Nineteen.

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Research direction
Inspect the cover block frontend rendering code to understand why an empty block renders a black background and implement a fix to hide it when no media is set.
Tech stack
javascriptreact
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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GitJavaScriptCSS
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70