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Resize the "Body" text box in the Text page?
Miranda Hoffman
asked this on January 06, 2011 04:15 pm
Is it possible to resize the "Body" text box in the Text page? I'd like to make it a little wider.
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This was a request I made under Ideas and Feature Requests some months ago, but which seems to have fallen off the end of the list. In particular, it would be good if the text box in a Text Page could be as wide as the thumbnails box in the Collections page -- that way it would be possible to create a pseudo-collections page with HTML that mimicked the proper one, to allow a multi-level image selection structure. There is a separate request to allow Collection pages to point to other Collection pages, to allow the same thing more easily, but it doesn't seem to be on the developers' to-do list.
A simple solution to allow Collections to link to Collection is to add a 'redirect' option to the Albums.
This way you can 'redirect' the Album URL to the URL of another Collection Page.
What do you think about this solution?
(We're creating more flexible layouts and columns in our new website editor release later this year).
That sounds like a workable solution for now. I look forward to using it!
It would be very advantageous to make the text box wider so that our Bio's and credits can read horizontal rather than just vertical. This is something I've had clients ask me as well.
Hi David, yes, in our new website editor that we are designing, we aim to offer more flexibility for column width and also the option to create more text columns.
@Alrik, that sounds really cool, do you have a approximate release date for this website editor update? the more you guys talk about it, the more it sounds awesome. :)
@Tristan Yes, we are excited too:) It's a big project, you can follow the progress on http://v3.viewbook.com/
Alrik, I am looking forward to this.
Can't wait!!
Any update to this? :)
Resizing the text fields will be available in Viewbook version 3: http://www.viewbook.com/weblog/2011/04/26/in-the-works-viewbook-v3-...
I see! Thank you!
I can't figure out how to add text to my page besides in the "title" box. I would like to add a bio and think that it's possible with the basic subscription, I just can't figure out how even after reading the help section.
The Basic plan is a Gallery only plan, so there are no text columns or pages in this account. In the Standard and the Pro plan there are though. For the differences see http://support.viewbook.com/entries/60512-what-are-the-main-differe...
I can't find out how to increase the width of the body text box on a text page. Or is this not working on a trial version?
Any tips?
Simply place all the text in a HTML table with a width tag by pixels and the text box will expand to the width indicated. A work-around but it does allow you to control the width of the text and add images into it. I will try to show the code below but dont know if it will show correctly.
<blockquote><table width="800"><tr><td>{add text}</td></tr></table></blockquote>