I am completely new to Freeway 4 Pro and web building so forgive my rather basic question, which is:-
When using an HTML box for text how do I stop it having a white fill, the colours box says ‘none’ but when it is placed over an image or another coloured box there is a white panel around the type box?
I have looked in the huuuuuge manual but can’t find the answer, any help would be appreciated. Thanks in anticipation,
John G
By the blue button you mean the CSS, I did that and it worked just as you said, box outlined in green instead of the previous blue and it’s now transparent.
Great, thanks very much…sorry to say you will probably see a few more postings from me in the near future with equally basic questions.
One more tip for you – if you select an HTML box (or anything else on
the page in Freeway 5) and look at the Inspector, you’ll see a Layer
checkbox indicating the current state of that element. Check it to
make a layer, un-check it to make it a non-layered item (part of the
invisible page layout table). You can switch back and forth between
these states.
Walter
On Feb 12, 2009, at 2:31 PM, John Griffiths wrote:
By the blue button you mean the CSS, I did that and it worked just
as you said, box outlined in green instead of the previous blue and
it’s now transparent.
Sometime around 12/2/09 (at 11:20 -0500) John Griffiths said:
When using an HTML box for text how do I stop it having a white
fill, the colours box says ‘none’ but when it is placed over an
image or another coloured box there is a white panel around the type
box?
If you’re using Freeway Express I’m afraid there isn’t a simple
solution - and the complicated one would be really complicated!
If you’re using Freeway Pro then just make sure that item is layered.
Either make sure the CSS button in the toolbar is on (blue highlight)
when you first make it, or alternatively just click the Layer
checkbox in the Inspector palette when you have that item selected.
That will make it be a floating layer rather than flat on the page
level, cutting holes in whatever gets in its way.
If you’re using Freeway Pro then just make sure that item is
layered. Either make sure the CSS button in the toolbar is on (blue
highlight)
Just so there’s no confusion, the button highlight colour is dependant
on how you have your OS X System Preferences>Appearance panel set. If
you have ‘Blue’ for ‘Appearance’ selected, the button is blue for CSS.
If you have ‘Graphite’ selected, the button is a dark grey. Perhaps
the most foolproof way is that the button says ‘CSS Layout’ beneath it
when it’s blue/dark grey, and ‘Table Layout’ when it’s not. That is,
of course, if you’ve chosen to show ‘Icon & Text’ in Freeway’s top bar.
