#type 'markup' removed

By star-szr on 6 July 2013

Change record status:

Published (View all published change records)

Project:

Drupal core

Introduced in branch:

8.x

Issue links:

https://www.drupal.org/node/2012818

Description:

In Drupal 7, #type 'markup' was a distinction without a difference and caused confusion because including '#type' => 'markup' in a render array was always optional and did not affect the rendering of markup added using the #markup render array key in any way.

In Drupal 8, you can still add arbitrary markup to render arrays using the #markup render array key, but '#type' => 'markup' is no longer a valid type.

Unneeded #type specification:

array(
  '#type' => 'markup',
  '#markup' => 'Some arbitrary markup.',
);

Correct (for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8):

array(
  '#markup' => 'Some arbitrary markup.',
);

In Drupal 7, drupal_render() set #type to markup internally before rendering if #markup was set but #type was not set. In Drupal 8, we no longer specify a #type at all for markup, since '#type' => 'markup' no longer affects the behaviour of the #markup render array key.

Impacts:

Module developers

Themers

Updates Done (doc team, etc.)

Online documentation:

Not done

Theming guide:

Not done

Module developer documentation:

Not done

Examples project:

Not done