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@carolinan, @luminuu, do you think this needs to be fixed on the theme side? Fixing every theme conflict doesn't seem maintainable long-term, but I would defer to your expertise.

It is possible that it is a theme issue, like with the pull quote issue, it needs testing first.

From what I've researched, it looks like this issue needs to be addressed in the social icons block itself.

See #69098 (comment).

Yes @t-hamano, so adding the margin: 0 to the button does the task. I don't know the idea behind changing the useBlockProps from li to button. If we can't reverse that, this will work as I have tested for the block themes as well ( >= twentytwentyone), and it doesn't causes any regression issue.

I don't know the idea behind changing the useBlockProps from li to button.

I think this is for accessibility reasons, see #64883. So it looks like we can't put the useBlockProps position back on the li element.

@t-hamano For whatever reason, this CSS does come from core, that adds a margin-top and margin-bottom of 28px to the social icons, due to a very low specified selector html :where(.wp-block):

The issue persists also over any default classic theme that is not a block theme, with one exception:

Twenty Nineteen:

Twenty Seventeen:

Twenty Sixteen:

I've also checked some more older themes and this issue happens to all of them.

The only exception is Twenty Twenty-One, which has some CSS added for the editor styles to fix this problem:
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I think the suggested fix in this PR is at the right spot, as this CSS gets loaded after the one from the first screenshot, so it would always overwrite this original setting done in the edit-post/classic.css file, following the cascade.

The top and bottom margin issue will be resolved with margin: 0; in classic themes. This issue does not occur in the Twenty Twenty-One theme because it already includes margin-top: 0; and margin-bottom: 0; in the Social Link

Twenty Twenty Theme:

Before PR:

After PR:

Thanks everyone for the feedback. It seems like this issue is best resolved in the block itself, so let's merge this PR.