Softaculous

Topic : Text formatting for phones help!

Posted By: ThorTTT on November 1, 2020, 5:27 am

I was under the impression that my site would automatically reformat to accommodate mobile viewers... some parts work fine, but text boxes do not- they only show about 2 or three words per line. I've tried messing with formatting options and nothing seems to change. My site has a lot of text so this is really important. Please help me! Advice would be much appreciated!

Posted By: MicroDrie on November 1, 2020, 1:26 pm | Post: 1

Without an example, the question is difficult to answer. It depends on a lot of things:

The effective length that remains for a text depends on all left and right margin margins on one screen line,
The font size,
The required width of a character for a font,
For long words, whether you have hyphenation turned on,
In addition, every telephone has a different resolution and the corresponding number of characters that can be placed on a line.

Perhaps it helps if you design in the smallest screen option window size. How does it looks with the smallest phone screen option?

Posted By: ThorTTT on November 1, 2020, 5:10 pm | Post: 2

Thank you for your response. Here's some more information about what I've tried, and maybe you have some ideas for troubleshooting.

When I put the screen view into the mobile one it reflects what I see on my phone. I've tried setting margins and padding to 0, nothing changes. The font I'm using is Monteserrat, when I make the font smaller it does not change the fact that there are huge margins in the phone view, which is why there are only 2 words that can fit per line.
There are some places it seems obvious that I am having this problem because I have two columns, one with a picture, the other with text (which I might decide to live with because at least here I don't have the same huge margins that are appearing) but I'm having the main problem with pages that are text only.

Thank you for your time.

Posted By: MicroDrie on November 1, 2020, 5:31 pm | Post: 3

Which theme did you use?
You can add a new line and drag the column widget to it. Place the rich text widget in one column and an image in the other. What does that look like?

I have enclosed an example of what that looks like.

Posted By: ThorTTT on November 1, 2020, 5:39 pm | Post: 4

I think I used Spatial? But I deleted a lot of the pre-formatting and did my own drag and drop with the widgets. I attached a photo of what single column text looks like. The double column looks better than this.

Posted By: MicroDrie on November 1, 2020, 5:54 pm | Post: 5

You wrote:

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But I deleted a lot of the pre-formatting and did my own drag and drop with the widgets

that is a danger action :squi:

because things are stacked.
Can I see the page on-line?

Posted By: MicroDrie on November 1, 2020, 5:57 pm | Post: 6

Which theme did you use?
You can add a new line and drag the column widget to it. Place the rich text widget in one column and an image in the other. What does that look like?

I have enclosed an example of what that looks like.

Posted By: ThorTTT on November 1, 2020, 6:02 pm | Post: 7

Just sent a PM with URL. Thank you!

Posted By: MicroDrie on November 1, 2020, 6:42 pm | Post: 8

I have replied to your PM.