Theme Builder templates lack complete control over styles and attributes in the Document Settings

[lllopo]

Prerequisites

• I have searched for similar feature requests in both open and closed discussions and cannot find an existing request.
• I have verified that the feature is still missing from the latest stable versions of Elementor or Elementor Pro.

What problem is your feature request going to solve? Please describe..

When a template is created (a header template for example), this still introduces a wrapper HTML node that has a style section in its settings, but only with padding, margin and background, thus no real layouting or styling control what so ever. So, if one wants to have a real control over style and layout - an internal layouting element like a flexbox should be added. This is fully redundant imo.

Describe the solution you'd like.

The solution to this is, to make the style section of any template settings a full fledged DIV styling section. This way the template container itself can be turned into plain block div, flexbox or grid (I don't see grid controls in the layout section anywhere btw, but that is another story) and no internal containers would be needed (unless desired by the end user). End result - one nested HTML node less per template.

As a side note - the template widget (when it comes to V4) should also NOT add it's own wrapping element either as it is not just creating overhead, but also introduces all kind of layouting issues. I have an issue for v3 for this that is not moving forward for a long time now. Hope it'll be noticed here.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

No response

Additional context

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Agreement

• I agree that my request may be closed without action if it doesn't meet all the requirements.

[lllopo]

Ow ... and the template styles should have the new classes thing etc. bells and whistles.

[nicholaszein]

Hi @lllopo, we discussed this during the v3.29.0-beta, but I want to include my answer here as well.

Right now, Elementor V4 only touches the fundamental parts of the Atomic Elements, Global Classes, unified Styles, and Responsive designs. Everything else is still part of Elementor V3, and was not changed for this first alpha stage. We want to make sure these work as intended and are stable enough so we can move to improve other components. The best way to do this is to gather feedback from users like you.

Nonetheless, you've made valid points, and we will keep them in mind for the future! 😉

Thank you for sharing this idea! 💡 🤗