Breakpoints part 2

The cascading rule saves you time when you’re designing. Any layout or style changes you make at larger breakpoints automatically trickle down to all smaller breakpoints. This doesn’t mean you need to keep the same design for every screen size. You can still make custom changes at each breakpoint.

Don’t display

To hide an element on a specific breakpoint, go to that breakpoint, right click the element and select Don’t Display. Alternatively, go to the Layers panel from that same breakpoint, select the 3 dots next to the element and click Don’t Display. This change will only affect your current breakpoint and any smaller ones. To re-display your element, go back to the Layers panel, find the element and click the eye icon.

Copying from breakpoints

You can copy all of an element’s layout and style properties from one breakpoint to another. For example, you might like the way you styled an element on mobile, and want to use this same styling on tablet. To do this, go to tablet, select the element and click Copy from Breakpoint. You’ll then see a preview of how this element appears at each breakpoint. Hover on the mobile breakpoint—where you have the styling you want—and click Apply. The mobile styling of this element will now be applied on tablet.

From the floating action bar that appears when you click on an element, you can choose to Copy from Breakpoint.

Using on all breakpoints

To use the same styling of an element on all breakpoints, right click the element and select Use on All Breakpoints.

Clicking on an element, open the menu and then you can click on Use on All Breakpoints.

Removing overrides

All changes that cascade down are inherited changes from larger breakpoints. You can override an inherited change by customizing an element at a specific, smaller breakpoint. An element that has overrides no longer inherits other changes from larger breakpoints. Remove overrides from an element by right clicking it and selecting Remove Overrides.

From the floating action bar, you can choose to remove overrides.

Follow these steps in the editor

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Don’t display. Go to the desktop breakpoint and add a button. From the breakpoint navigator, move to tablet. Right click the button and select Don’t Display. You’ll see that the button is now hidden on tablet and mobile.
Re-display. Go to the mobile breakpoint and open the Layers panel. Find the button, under Section and select the eye icon to re-display it. Now the button is displayed on desktop and mobile, but hidden on tablet.
Cascading in action. Go to the tablet breakpoint and add a new button. You’ll see that this new button appears on mobile, but not on desktop.
Style per breakpoint. From the desktop breakpoint, add another button to your canvas. Go to tablet and change the color of the button. Go to mobile and change the color again. Now you have a different colored button at each breakpoint.
Use on all breakpoints. Head back to tablet, right click the button and select Use on All Breakpoints. See that the button color you used on tablet is now applied at every breakpoint.
Copy style from a breakpoint. Click Undo to return to the state where you have different colored buttons at each breakpoint. Now go back to tablet and select the button. From the floating Action bar, select Copy from Breakpoint—that’s the icon to the left of the link icon. From here, select Apply on the desktop thumbnail. The button on tablet will now match the desktop styling.
Remove overrides. Go to the mobile breakpoint, right click the button and select Remove Overrides. Cascading is now back in action and the button on mobile will take on the same color as you have on desktop and tablet.

Transcript

Let’s explore how to edit style, position and behavior across breakpoints on Editor X. With a breakpoint, you can change the styling or layout of your site to suit a new screen size, so you can create tailor-made experiences for every device.

Here on the top bar, Editor X gives you 3 default breakpoints so you can see how your site looks on different devices.

The mobile breakpoint spans 250-750 pixels, so your site will look good on phones whether they’re in landscape or portrait mode.

With the handles, you can see how your site looks across all viewports.

This grey area outside the canvas shows the range of screen sizes between each breakpoint.

If you want to style your site at a specific spot between the default breakpoints, click the 3 dots on your top bar. Here you can view and edit your current breakpoints or add a new one. Choose the pixel size you want and press Done.

Your new breakpoint will now show in the top bar. All custom breakpoints you add will be saved here so you can easily return to them.

On your new breakpoint, let’s hide this bit of text so the title has more focus. Right click and select Don’t Display.

If you check desktop, the text is still there. The style change at the smaller breakpoint, didn’t affect the larger one.

This is because on Editor X, styling cascades down. For example, if you make this big title brown on desktop, it will automatically change on all the smaller breakpoints.

Now if you make it white on mobile, it’ll stay brown on tablet and desktop.

You can also copy styling from a smaller to a larger breakpoint. Let’s go back to mobile. Here, let’s make the button larger so it’s easier for visitors to click. This looks good, so let’s use this styling on tablet too. Go to tablet, select the button, and click Copy from Breakpoint.

In this panel you can preview your styling at other breakpoints and copy between them. Here’s the mobile styling. Click Apply to add it just to tablet.

Let's move on to changing behavior per breakpoint. For this we'll need the Inspector panel. Let’s see what you can do with an image. You have 3 options: Fixed, Fluid and Scale.

By default, images are set to Scale which means the image resizes proportionally with the viewport.

Select Fixed to measure your image in pixels. As you change the viewport, it stays exactly the same size.

To change it to Fluid, deselect the Scale option. Now, the image will keep the same height but change its width in percent in relation to the viewport.

When an image is set to Fluid, it’s important to choose a Focal Point. Click this icon and move the circle to where you want to keep the focus.

No matter what size screen someone opens your site on, they’ll see the exact part of the image you want them to.

With breakpoints on Editor X, you can perfect your design at each viewport size, and create tailor-made experiences for every possible screen.

Editor X is an advanced creation platform. To master it, continue watching this series of video tutorials.