Placement of the Save button(s)

Created on 31 March 2012, about 13 years ago

Updated 28 April 2025, 8 days ago

With the recent proposal of including a sidebar in Drupal core we now have an actual area where buttons could be placed in alternative to the bottom. In the discussion at Content creation redesign we noticed that many people would like to see the “Save” button at various places in the Drupal interface. We concluded for #1510532: [META] Implement the new create content page design → , that there is no consensus yet on where they should be placed.

We would like to continue the discussion here, below are a few directions that where proposed in the threads:

There are a lot of things to be taking into consideration when we are making a major pattern change like this one. From how its handled from an accessibility perspective, to how it should work on mobile.

My personal concerns are mostly about how applicable it is across core (e.g. does it make sense for configuration screens, to have save buttons elsewhere than the bottom), what kind of user behavior do we want to support (like Joomla, where all buttons are in the top right), how flexible is the pattern to handle specific contrib use cases (very horizontal interfaces like Views, Rules, Page Manager, etc).

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🇳🇱Netherlands Bojhan

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🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!

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