When I am designing and switch between:
PC, Landscape tablets
and Portrait Smartphones
in the Device Menu I often find the Page Bottom Handle has been knocked way, way, way, way down the page and I have to take hold of it and scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll for ages to get it back up to the last item of artwork on the page.
Surely there is a way to instruct the Page Bottom Handle to jump up the page until it encounters the last graphic/text item on the page without this long and tedious grabbing and scrolling exercise.
@CliffSmith, Have you tried selecting everything in your footer and right-click group it, and then make sure the footer group is selected and then over on the right-hand panelā¦ Arrange / Follow Footer (tick)?
Hello Duncan,
At first I suspect it happened when you add elements in the one device (ie PC format) and the program popās it into the other (Smartphone) that the Page Bottom Handle gets shunted down the page. It has never happened when I have yet to add a 2nd Device, this latest episode it went WAY down, I have attached a screenshot to show you the Vertical Position, it is crazy!
Seems the best remedy would be a button on the Page Bottom Handle (or a double click command on the PBH) that would zoom it up the page until it runs into the first element it encounters?
When I tried to move the box you see in the screenshot to the PBH or move the PBH up to the box it generates an error report. My email complains the file is too big to send to you so I have popped it on my server so you can get it at the link below.
Thanks but as mentioned unless the starting point is a blank document we donāt quite know what leads to that. Can you make it happen starting with a blank project?
It happens when you work with 2 device formats open. I am pretty upset because I am sitting with 2 weeks work now and it is a clusterfuck. Any chance I can send you the .sparkle file and you hack the PBH back up to the artwork?
I had the same problem in the earlier version of my website. It appears suddenly in the desktop format also. But sorry ā¦ canāt say what step guides to this effect. But it was nothing unusual I did in Sparkle to effect this. only want say it happens also in the desktop version, not only in the mobile version. It was no Intension to blame anythingā¦
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Fiddled a bit and am sure it is the way the PBH tries to anticipate where the bottom of the page is likely to be in the new format (PC) after fresh elements are added to another format (smartphone).
I recall some page layout packages a few years back were text boxes would ātighten upā around the actual text on the page with a simple double-click on one of the corners. I propose a similar solution here offering the option to double click on the PBH to have it pop up the page until it is touches the lowest element on the page.
Hi Cliff,
I have run into this a few times on different Sparkle sites, too.
Andā¦to make matters worse, I find it impossible to delete that white space way down the page between the main content and the footer.
This doesnāt happen on all sites, just a fewā¦some I think were built with older versions of Sparkle.
Just a guess.
Also be aware of elements that are hiddenā¦
If you have hidden say a desktop element from your mobile but also move it further down the page on desktop than it can push the footer further down on mobile. Because the element is at the bottom of the page (and hidden) the footer canāt come back up unless the element is also moved up the page.
Yes, that was my obvious assumption, however when I scrolled down, and when I say down the PBH had been pushed below 590,000,000 units in the vertical axis, and used Select All to try and find the stray hidden elements that may have been the culprit - there were none to be found. Anyway the team at Sparkle fixed the problem for me so I did not lose all the work I had done thus far and am now able to continue.
Hi Cliff, Iāve had this issue many times before, but the last time I got it, I discovered that if I had a background image which was set to āall pagesā, when I resized it to fit any individual page, the longest page caused the footer to follow this image onto every other page, ie. if I had a page with 100 lines of text and I resized the background to fit that, when I went to a page with only 10 lines, even though the background image was resized to that, the footer took on the position of the image on the 100 line page. Whenever I deleted the background image, every footer kept the position given to it.
Hi! Did this issue has been resolved?
Because, I have the same problem in Sparkle V3 - 3.0.8 (8420).
All of a sudden (without me actually doing anything) Iāve got the footer pushed at a huge height position ā¦ the bad part is that I canāt even resize the page manually (through a UI input) ā¦ I can only drag the bottom page marker/handle (and I need to do this for each responsive breakpoint) ā¦ a real pain ā¦
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