Note to self - finish this: #18786

@brianteeman - I've just finished rewriting this script and it's ready to commit. Whilst I'm at it, in the Global Config, there are currently 3 options for Mouse-over Edit Icons for

1. Modules & Menus
2. Modules
3. None

I was thinking to change this to:

Front-end module editing (switcher)

• Off
• On

Simply because the menu IS a module and I can't see any reason to have modules but not menus. Would be nice to just simplify this too.

thoughts?

the menus option is very different to the modules option

Is there anywhere where I can get more info on that?

You can try it in J3 ;)
or watch this video https://developer.joomla.org/cms/user-experience/610-jux-code-sprint-report.html

(note that was when there was only backend module editing - front end editing came later)

The reason why it doesnt work is in the frontediting.js
It is trying to

// Get menu ItemId from the item-nnn class of the li element of the menu:

but it cant as in j4 the li element doesnt have that class
in fact it doesnt have a unique class which might be a problem if someone wants to target a link for additional styling etc which was no problem at all in j3