[Pro] Freeway 7 and responsive layout

Softpress recommends to use percentage-based inflow layouts for building responsive layouts.

I agree but to easily position a bunch of elements within an inflow layout you either should be able to select multiple elements and adjust border, padding, alignment etc. with a single edit or be able to work with CSS classes (with Freeway showing the effect of changes within the editor not only afterwards in the preview).

To my surprise Freeway 7 doesn’t support either out of the box.

Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Peter


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Hi Peter,

this is difficult to answer (at least for me):

Let me say it that way:

In a flexible percentage based inflow construction, there is no real positioning (top, right, bottom, left) but just items that all react on each other - by float, clear, width and height.

I never needed multiple selection but could think of advantages - however discussed elsewhere I know that this is not really easy.

At least nothing to correct you - I’m just the opinion, that inflow needs a proper plan.

Cheers

Thomas


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Thomas, is a “flexible percentage based inflow construction” the solution to what I describe here?:

http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/8446#latest

–James Wages


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Hi James,

I saw the other list already (and even your lil movie - but had no popcorn by hand, a pity) and made my thoughts.

It is basically and honestly not, at least not entirely.

This vertical centering is hard to crack and I already tried different methods in the past - most without much of success.

This is one of the (hundred) black areas in my landscape that I have to work through in detail, but it perhaps has to do with a clever combination of a basic relative construction flavored by absolute positioned items. For the image it could be a do-able way - but I can’t speak without ever tried things (mouthwatering is not really a good thing to do).

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Thomas


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