Sometimes I want to come back to a completed page with text and images and insert another new image into the page. That seems to mean that I have to manually move all the boxes below that point and then realign them. Is there an easier or an automatic way to do this?
Hi Steve
Can you give an example? Do you have a published page that you are thinking of?
One thing you can do is group elements together. That would make it easy to move a set of elements that you have already arranged in order to make way for a new image.
If you want to do something dynamically then that will need more context from you.
Steve
Take a look at https://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com/silent-f-sf-movies-on-youtube-1895--1. What if I find, for example, a new movie from 1898 and want to insert it into the chronology?
You can use a Repeater . See the article Displaying Dynamic Content in a Repeater for and explanation on how it’s used.
Hi Steve
Yes as Ysrael suggests your best bet is to put the information you want to display in a data collection and then set up a repeater that loads the information from the data collection. Then all you need to do is add new records to the data collection and the page will automatically pick up them up when you reload it.
Steve
I’ll have to go through those pages Yisrael linked. But my question was more global that than. Most of the pages I’d want to add content into the middle of are not repeating and don’t have a dataset. https://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com/the-beloved-battling-robot-dinosaur is just a mixture of text blocks and images with nothing repeating. Say I find a new postcard that I want to mention and want to insert it in the middle of the page. How would I do that without manually moving all the blocks beneath it.
Hi Steve
Then I think you are back to the grouping concept I first suggested. Another thing you could do is to use blocks or strips and add your content in logical groups on a block then you can separate the blocks or strip and insert others. At this point you don’t really have direct access to the DOM to simply add an element. This is one of those hindsight is 20-20 situations where you consider this during the site design and plan accordingly.
Are you using the wix blog by any chance? If not perhaps that might be the way to go?
Steve
The problem with grouping is that I can’t know in advance where I would want to insert, so grouping random elements makes little sense.
It’s obviously possible to move all elements farther down the page: adding text to a text box does it with no problem. I don’t like putting images inside of text boxes but that seems to a be a workaround.
2 years later, i found your post.
solution… just add a box behind the elements you want to add or elements already on your website and change the design of the box to transparent