Close Menu
Open Menu

Storyboard

  1. Home
    2. ›
  2. Dirigible Plugins
    3. ›
  3. Extended Blocks
    4. ›
  4. Storyboard

Storyboard

Tell a story by guiding users through giant, detailed cards that feature your photography.

Usage

Use our Storyboard block to share a story with your viewers. Give your website a clean and professional look while engaging with your visitors.

Parent Settings

The parent block (named Storyboard in the editor) only has parent block settings, but you do have the option to differentiate the look of your slides from one another. Remember to access these settings, you must have the parent block selected, which should be easy enough just by clicking on the block as you don’t have child blocks to worry about.

Adding Slides

First to add slides, scroll to the bottom of the block settings on the right hand side. At the bottom in the section titled Slides, you’ll want to click the blue Add Slide button. You can add as many slides as you want and from here you can edit the individual fields of each card: Headline, Subheadline, Body, Link, Headline Style, Text Placement, Reverse Print, Background Image, Background Origin, Background Overlay, and Overlay Opacity.

Text Style

The Text Style (sometimes called Headline Style) option controls the display of your text.

The Text Style (or Headline Style) will default to a different value depending on the block, but can be changed to any of the other available options. These styles are defined in your Customizer under Styles. For more information on changing your styles visit Customizing Styles.

One important thing to note is that this only changes how the headlines appear visually. The underlying html will be determined by the block that uses this features.

Block Text Alignment

Choose the text alignment of the selected block.

Choosing a Block Text Alignment

The text alignment option allows you to place your text anywhere inside of the child block. This is more useful than trying to control the alignment of each inner child block element, and is a combination of text position and text alignment. For example, setting the text to the lower right hand corner will not only position the text in the lower righthand corner, but also set right text alignment on all children.

Note: Because right text alignment is generally used compositionally on desktop, text set to be right aligned will automatically revert to left alignment on mobile to give your users the best experience.

Reverse Print

Toggling reverse print will flip the colors from your standard palette to white, which increases contrast and readability when text is placed on dark backgrounds.

You’ll find the reverse print toggle in the block sidebar. Enabling reverse print will affect the block its enabled on as well as everything inside of it. If the block contains Inner Blocks, reverse print will cascade to all descendants.

We recommend using reverse print whenever a block has a dark background and using white text would increase its contrast. While you can set text color on core blocks like Headings and Paragraphs, we strongly recommend using the block-level reverse print instead. This way, you’ll be able to quickly toggle all the content if you change the background color in the future. All Inner Blocks will respect the reverse print setting, even those without color settings themselves.

To read more about contrast requirements on the web, visit here.

Background Image

Use a photo from your media library or upload a new one to use as a background.

Choose a Background Image

You can choose a background image in the block sidebar by clicking on the ‘Choose Photo’ button. You’ll be prompted to select a photo from your media library or upload a new one.

Once you’ve selected a photo to use as your background, new options will take the place of the one you used to select the photo. The first is a simple button to remove the image that you’ve selected, allowing you to start this over.

The second is the Focal Point selector. This tool allows you to select the most important point of your photo that your website will try to always keep visible. Because of the responsive nature of the web, images used as a background must stretch and cover the area when viewed on different device sizes, but this focal point allows you to keep what’s important in frame.

Set an Overlay

Whether you need to darken or tint an image to maintain the legibility of text on top of it or as a stylistic choice, there are many situations where you’ll want to add an overlay to your background image. The overlay tool in your block sidebar lets you choose a color from your palette (with the addition of pure black or pure white). The overlay opacity slider will determines how much overlay to apply to the background image, with 100% being solid color.

Select X as the overlay color to disable the overlay completely, or set its opacity to 0%.

Background Attachment

Some blocks allow you to set the background attachment. A background with Fixed attachment will remain anchored to the browser window as the user scrolls, creating a parallax effect.

Block Width

Blocks can be set to one of three widths in the editor: Default, Wide, or Full. Blocks will interact with adjacent blocks differently depending on their width.

Adjusting Block Width

The block width setting is found in your block context bar, which will show up above the current block that you have selected. A block that supports the block widths will show its current width icon in the context bar, and clicking it will allow you to change the width.

If you have the Top Toolbar setting selected, the block context bar will always show at the top of your page, not at the top of your block.

Default Width

The default width of your content is determined by the value set in your Customizer. You can find this setting under Styles » Widths » Content Width. This is the default width of most text-based content and most blog pages. We recommend keeping this set so that your content retains maximum readability, which most studies agree is around 50-60 characters per line.

Wide Width

Wide width content will take up 75% of the available width on the page or the default content width set on your site—whichever is larger. In effect, this makes content take up more of the available screen real estate. When used in conjunction with other wide width blocks, you can shape your webpages in many different ways.

Full Width

Full width content will always take up 100% of the available width on the page. When placed next to default or wide width content, margin will be applied to the full width block to give it some room to breath. When two full width blocks are placed next to each other, however, they will suction together and form a cohesive unit with no margin in between them.

Storyboard

→

Up Next