- Patch #601150 by eojthebrave, bganicky, sun, seutje, JacobSingh, ivansf: improved UI for contextual links.

misc/contextual_links.css

@@ -8,31 +8,68 @@
   position: relative;
 }
 .contextual-links-region-active {
-  outline: #000 dashed 1px;
+  outline: #999 dashed 1px;
 }
 
 /**
  * Contextual links.
  */
-ul.contextual-links {
+div.contextual-links-wrapper {
-  float: right;
+  display: none;
   font-size: 90%;
+  position: absolute;
+  right: 5px;
+  top: 0px;
+  z-index: 999;
+}
+html.js div.contextual-links-wrapper {
+  display: block;
+}
+a.contextual-links-trigger {
+  background: transparent url(cog-select.png) no-repeat center center;
+  display: none;
+  height: 20px;
+  margin-top: 2px;
+  outline: none;
+  text-indent: 34px;
+  width: 30px;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+a.contextual-links-trigger:hover,
+div.contextual-links-active a.contextual-links-trigger {
+  background-color: #fff;
+}
+div.contextual-links-wrapper ul.contextual-links {
+  display: none;
   margin: 0;
-  padding: 0;
+  padding: 5px 10px;
+  position: absolute;
+  right: 0;
+  top: 20px;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.contextual-links-region:hover a.contextual-links-trigger,
+div.contextual-links-active a.contextual-links-trigger,
+div.contextual-links-active ul.contextual-links {
+  display: block;	
 }
 ul.contextual-links li {
-  border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
-  display: inline;
   line-height: 100%;
   list-style: none;
-  margin: 0 0 0 0.3em;
+  list-style-image: none;
-  padding: 0 0 0 0.6em;
-}
-ul.contextual-links li.first {
-  border-left: 0;
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
 }
-ul.contextual-links li a {
+div.contextual-links-wrapper a {
   text-decoration: none;
 }
+ul.contextual-links li a {
+  background: #fff;
+  color: #666;
+  display: block;
+  margin: 0.5em 0;
+  padding: 0.3em;
+}
+ul.contextual-links li a:hover {
+  text-decoration: underline;
+}

misc/contextual_links.js

@@ -8,8 +8,17 @@ Drupal.contextualLinks = Drupal.contextualLinks || {};
  */
 Drupal.behaviors.contextualLinks = {
   attach: function (context) {
-    $('ul.contextual-links', context).once('contextual-links', function () {
+    $('div.contextual-links-wrapper', context).once('contextual-links', function () {
-      $(this).hover(Drupal.contextualLinks.hover, Drupal.contextualLinks.hoverOut);
+      var $wrapper = $(this);
+      var $trigger = $('<a class="contextual-links-trigger" href="#" />').text(Drupal.t('Configure')).click(
+        function () {
+          $wrapper.find('ul.contextual-links').slideToggle(100);
+          $wrapper.toggleClass('contextual-links-active');
+          return false;
+        }
+      );
+      $wrapper.prepend($trigger)
+        .closest('.contextual-links-region').hover(Drupal.contextualLinks.hover, Drupal.contextualLinks.hoverOut);
     });
   }
 };
@@ -18,16 +27,16 @@ Drupal.behaviors.contextualLinks = {
  * Enables outline for the region contextual links are associated with.
  */
 Drupal.contextualLinks.hover = function () {
-  $(this).addClass('contextual-links-link-active')
+  $(this).closest('.contextual-links-region').addClass('contextual-links-region-active');
-    .closest('.contextual-links-region').addClass('contextual-links-region-active');
 };
 
 /**
  * Disables outline for the region contextual links are associated with.
  */
 Drupal.contextualLinks.hoverOut = function () {
-  $(this).removeClass('contextual-links-link-active')
+  $(this).closest('.contextual-links-region').removeClass('contextual-links-region-active')
-    .closest('.contextual-links-region').removeClass('contextual-links-region-active');
+    .find('.contextual-links-active').removeClass('contextual-links-active')
+    .find('ul.contextual-links').hide();
 };
 
 })(jQuery);

modules/system/system.module

@@ -3634,6 +3634,8 @@ function system_build_contextual_links($element) {
   $build = array();
   if ($links) {
     $build = array(
+      '#prefix' => '<div class="contextual-links-wrapper">',
+      '#suffix' => '</div>',
       '#theme' => 'links',
       '#links' => $links,
       '#attributes' => array('class' => array('contextual-links')),

themes/garland/style.css

@@ -840,17 +840,6 @@ tr.even td.menu-disabled {
   margin: 0;
 }
 
-/**
- * Contextual links.
- */
-.contextual-links-region-active {
-  outline: #027AC6 dashed 1px;
-}
-.block ul.contextual-links {
-  margin: 0;
-  padding: 0;
-}
-
 /**
  * Collapsible fieldsets
  */