PLACEHOLDER: Provide informative guidance if button placement fails

[twschiller]

Context

• As a user, if button placement fails I get cryptic error message. Or the button is placed, but is not formatted wrote/there's no caption/etc.
• Possible mitigation:
  • Point user to documentation on tips for placing buttons
  • Suggest to the user that they use the quickbar or context menu instead

Related Information

• Button Placement Guide in Documentation: https://www.notion.so/pixiebrix/Button-Placement-Guide-e162303d2ac14f99a08e1e4b5a005c04

Discussion

• Sometimes the button places but the style is wrong/there's no caption. At one point we had discussed generating alternative button placements and letting the user toggle between them to try to find one that works
• We've also done some work on automatically identifying good places to put a button, but that's not ready for general availability (Available as an option in the Skunkworks)

[corinnemayans]

Assigning to myself to work with Todd and Mike to thin-slice this so we can deliver incremental progress on this one.

[fregante]

This is something that could be fixed in the content script rather than in the page editor. See:

• https://github.com/pixiebrix/pixiebrix-extension/issues/4491

Additionally I implemented a more visual solution months ago but it has been hidden behind a flag since. I believe highlighting the valid elements to begin with would avoid any guesswork.

• https://github.com/pixiebrix/pixiebrix-extension/pull/2508

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