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Freeway Reference: Working with Items

Aligning items

You can align selected items along their edges or through their center points:

1. Select the items you want to align.

2. Choose Align… from the Item menu. The Alignment dialog box opens

with the most recently used alignment options chosen.

3. Click on the relevant horizontal and vertical alignment icons.

4. Click OK.

Changing the stacking order of items using the Item menu

Freeway items are “stacked” in a front-to-back order on each page. You can alter the stacking order by bringing items to the front,

sending them to the back or by sending them one level forward/back in the stack. To do this:

1. Select the item.

2. Choose Send to Back or Bring to Front from the Item menu to send to the very back or front of the stack.

Choose Bring Forward or Send Backward to move items forward or backward by one step.

Note: Layer items are always in front of table-positioned items in the stacking order.

Changing the stacking order of items using the Site panel

1. Select the item.

2. Ensure that items are visible in the Site panel, either by selecting Show Items in the popup menu, or by switching to the Page

view of the Site panel.

3. Drag the selected item up or down in the list to change its stacking order position. The item that is at the top of the stack appears

lowest in the Site panel.

Group command

Preventing items from breaking apart

If HTML text in a browser window is enlarged, it can force items around it to move. Let’s say, for example, we have a set of navigation

buttons, formed of graphic items, spaced neatly down the left hand side of a page.

Placing an HTML text item on the right looks correct in the Freeway page layout, but when previewed in a browser the buttons become

separated if the text is enlarged.

To avoid the buttons splitting apart like this, we can select them all and choose Group from the Item menu. This has the effect of

forcing Freeway to create a whole table cell for the items that have been grouped.

With Show HTML Layout turned on,

the table structure shows as a series

of dotted blue lines. In our example,

you can see the ﬁrst button will be

published into a separate table cell to

the others.

Grouping items

1. Select the items you want to group either by Shift-clicking each in turn, or by dragging a

marquee over them.

2. From the Item menu, choose Group.

3. The grouped items show a single set of selection handles.

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