Stack and Adaptive Layout

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Learn how to work with Fill, Fit and spacing rules to keep your layout adaptive

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Build a 3D Site Without Code with Framer

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3D Animation and Text Styles

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Stack and Adaptive Layout

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Top Bar Menu Animation

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Scroll Parallax

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Appear Animation

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Overlay and Forms

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Pages and Breakpoints

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CMS and Content

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Layout Stack

Notice that by default, all your elements are positioned using absolute values. You can make them behave more like in CSS by using Layout. Similar to Flex, Layout allows you to stack elements and lets you control the alignment, gap, distribution, etc.

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Click on the + sign next to Layout in the inspector.
Set the width and height to Fit Content if you want the container to automatically adapt to the content. Change the Title structure into 3 lines.
Set the width to 460 since we want a Fixed size for this stack.
Select both texts and set the width to Fill.
Set the Gap to 30.

Fill and Fit Content

When using stacks, it is recommended to use Fit or Fill and avoid using Fixed sizes.

Fit lets you set a container to the size of its inner elements.
Fill lets you set inner elements to the full width of the container.
If your container is not a stack, the alternative is to use 100%.

Stacks Everywhere

Web design tends to be very dynamic since it has to respond to an endless number of screen sizes. That’s why it’s generally not a good idea to use Fixed sizes. As you get more comfortable with stacks, you’ll want to use it everywhere.

Select the whole Desktop and set to Layout. Set the height to Fit Content and Gap to 0. This will automatically adapts as new content gets added.
Select the Hero container and set the width to 100%.
Select Rows and set Height to Fit Content.

Change Hero to Stack

Let’s turn the Hero container to a stack so that we can make it more adaptive across breakpoints.

Select Hero and set to Fit Content. This will lose the constraints.
Set the Padding to 100, 50, 100, 50 and Alignment to Left.

Paddings and Breakpoints

As a rule, the paddings will differ depending if it’s on a desktop, tablet or phone.

For Tablet, set the padding to 100, 30, 100, 30
The Phone is special, since that’s when the content starts to be larger than the screen width. As a result, you want to set the Rows width to Fill.
Set the Phone’s padding to 80, 20, 80, 20

Now your site will adapt well no matter the screen size.

New Section and Styles

Duplicate the Hero container. Rename to Features.
Change background color to #070818.
Set the title to “Trusted by 8,000 companies worldwide" and change to H3, white, 22 L, 20 M, 20 S.
Set the paragraph to “Many teams choose Framer to iterate faster and publish at the blink of an eye without complex loops”. Create a new style Footnote, Medium white 70%, 16 L, 14 M, 14 S.
Set the width for the second text to 460. For Phone, set to Fill.
Set gap to 30.

Space Between and Wrap

When the length of the content exceeds the screen width, you can use Space Between to use the full width as much as possible. Also, you can use Wrap to move to new lines for smaller resolutions, similar to lines of texts.

Copy all the logo files and paste to Framer.
Select and Frame them and move inside Features.
Set width to Fill and height to Fit Content. This will automatically set the Layout features.
Set Space Between and gap to 20.
Sometimes, assets may seem too big for smaller screens. Select all logos and resize to height 38 for Tablet, 36 for Phone.
Move the Apple logo to second.

Icons

Framer provides a lot of incredibly useful preset components for icons, images and forms that makes working with dynamic content effortless.

Create a Frame of width 25%, height 1, white 10%.
Add a text “Publish a site in minutes”, set to Section Title.
Click on Insert and select Phosphor icons 32x32, change Name to Pen, color #FF8585.
Add a text “Flexible Component”. Create new style Caption 2, bold, white, uppercase. Size 14 for L, 13 for M and S. Line 150%.
Add a text “No more complicated workflows. Just design and publish. That’s it.” Create a new style Caption, medium, white 70%, 14 for L, 13 for M and S. Line 150%.
Select all three elements and create Frame. Rename to Feature.
Change width to 250 and height to Fit Content, padding 30, 20, 30, 20, corner 25, Fill black 40%, border white 10%.
Set the texts to width Fill, align Center.

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Build a 3D Site Without Code with Framer

Design and publish a responsive site with 3D animation without writing a single line of code

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Learn how to work with Fill, Fit and spacing rules to keep your layout adaptive

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