Text in footer offset on one page

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Good day! Making good progress with Xway.

I just hosted a new site that was rebuilt from a previous Freeway site. On the home page only, it seems that Master Content/Style isn’t working on the footer. All others are OK, and I’ve checked the boxes for Master Content, etc. As you can see, there are two groups of text….…it’s shifted slightly to the right on the home page.

Glad and thankful for thoughts.

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Hi Matt,

I’d be interested to see your Xway document, if you can send it to me via support at softpress dot com. You might need to use a file sharing service, such as DropBox or WeTransfer, if the document is fairly large. You can reduce the size of a document by choosing Empty Site Folder from the File menu, and you can do this on a duplicate copy (instead of the original document) by first choosing Duplicate from the File menu. Compress the document as a zip archive before you send it. Do this before you try the following suggestions.

I’ve looked at your site in a browser, and it’s not clear to me why the text is being offset. That’s the main reason why I’d be interested to see the document.

If Use Master Content is turned on for the footer (and for the boxes inside the footer), try turning it off and on again.

Something else I noticed is that the site contains many nested spans, which are often a feature of Freeway sites, and which are carried over when a document is converted into an Xway document (Xway imports the existing structure).

Xway has some commands that can deal with this:

  1. Choose Check Document from the File menu. This can deal with problems including deeply nested spans. It might not report any problems, but it’s a good idea to run it anyway.
  2. Choose Tidy from the Edit menu, initially with just the selected options. This should remove unnecessary spans. You might also try using it with Remove Whole-Paragraph Spans selected. If that changes the appearance of the text, you can undo the change (Edit > Undo Tidy). It’s generally simpler if you tidy the entire document rather than individual pages (there’s a popup at the top which defaults to Document).

There’s also a box called dontdelete, which I don’t think is needed. This was probably added by a Freeway template for some kind of layout purpose, but it shouldn’t be needed in Xway layouts. If it’s a master box, delete it on a master page.

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Thanks Jeremy…sorry for the delay. We got hammered with a snow storm here in PA….was digging out.

I’ve sent the file link to you. I also tried the suggestions to no avail. Home page footer text still off center

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Hi Matt,

I’ve looked at your document, and the actual problem is caused by the bassoexterior image, which is above the footer. You’ve set this to float left (using an extended property), so that it floats to the left of the accompanying text. So far, so good.

The problem is that floated boxes can be tricky, because they’re not confined to their parent box by default. On your home page, the image is given a width of 37.14%. Because the page grows to fit the width of the viewport (viewing area), the image also grows in height on wider devices. This causes text in following boxes (i.e. the footer) to flow around it, as well, and this is making the text in the footer appear off-centre. You can’t actually see the image to the left of the footer text, because the footer background is drawn in front of it, but you would see it if you removed the background from the “footer wrapper” item.

There is an easy way to fix this. Select the box that contains the floated image (“quote7”) and then select the Flow Root checkbox in the Style section of the Box Inspector. This will cause the floated image to become confined to its parent box, and it will no longer affect other boxes.

Incidentally, you don’t need to set a maximum width of 100% on the image, because you’ve already set its width to 37.14%. It’s also worth noting that you don’t need to set a width of 100% on standard Relative-positioned boxes, because these expand to fill the available width in any case.

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Thanks Jeremy, for the detailed response.

Glad to better understand how Xway works and I’m proud to say I have already converted a handful of previous Freeway sites. I’ve been anxious to get the older Mojave computer off my desk!