Editor X Simplified: Stacks | Wix Fix

Welcome back to another episode of Editor X Simplified! Our goal is to take the complex world of Editor X and simplify it, making it easier to use for everyone. Today, we'll be primarily focusing on one of the essential design features in Editor X called Stacks. Stacks can play a huge role in creating responsive designs for various screen sizes, so let's get right into it!

What are Stacks?

In Editor X, Stacks are a fantastic tool that helps you organize and group elements like headings, paragraphs, and buttons on your website. They are essential in making sure that your content doesn't overlap and looks good on smaller screens. By stacking elements together, they will rearrange or "wrap" themselves, depending on the screen size, to maintain a clean and professional appearance.

Let's dive deeper into starting with Stacks and the different options available for customizing them.

Creating Stacks

For this example, we're going to start with a simple setup that includes a heading, a paragraph, and a button. Notice that if we don't stack these elements together, they might overlap and look really messy when viewed on smaller screens.

In order to stack them together, simply select each one of the elements you want to include in the stack, and then click on the option to Stack them together. Now, when you resize the screen, instead of seeing the content overlap, it will wrap neatly, which is exactly what we want with stacks.

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Customizing Stacks with Inspector Panel

Now that we've created a stack, it's time to explore the customization options for it. Open the Inspector Panel by toggling the button in the top right corner of the screen if it's not already visible, then go to the display settings. Here, you can adjust the settings for the elements you just stacked.

Item Spacing

The first thing you'll see in the display settings is "item spacing." This essentially determines the spacing between the elements in your stack. For instance, the spacing between the heading and the paragraph, and the paragraph and the button.

Initially, it will be set to "mix" because different spacings are assigned between the elements. Suppose we want the same spacing between both elements, let's say 20 pixels. Just change the value from "mix" to "20," and you will see a consistent space between the heading and the paragraph, and between the paragraph and the button.

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More Options

There are many other options you can experiment with as you customize your stack, including margins and alignment. Feel free to dive into these settings to create the perfect look for your site's content. The primary goal is always to maintain a clean, responsive design that looks professional regardless of screen size.

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Happy designing!