Layout inconsistencies, tired of them

Hi fellow app-builders,

I’m close to completing my webapp and am getting fed up with the lack of consistency of the designs in Adalo, anyone else experiencing this?

For example, I’ve aligned this text and underline in the editor, but no matter how often I re-publish and reload, the design does not render as it should.


Anyone else having experienced this, and how did you solve this? This is my homepage, so I’m not able to release this app looking like that, and it’s frankly frustrating such basic functionality doesn’t work as advertised.

Any inputs are welcome!

I can’t judge your skills, but my first impression is that this sounds like basic actions under layout (scaling and anchoring)

  1. take your text and underline
  2. Make sure they are hte same width
  3. group them
  4. In the separate components (the text, and underline) go to layout and give the following properties: Scale with group, and set the anchor the same on the components. From now on they should behave similar
  5. go to your group > layout and pick what you need. Fixed, or Scale with screen. Based on your images i’d guess you go for fixed sizes. Group on Fixed. Anchor left/right
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If you resize your screen inside the builder, you can see that your layout will not line up on any screen size but the exact pixel width you happen to have the builder screen set to:
setup

When building for web it’s important to always stretch and shrink your screen in the builder to see how your layout settings will be applied.

Try the following to fix your setup:

  • Change your type to left aligned (yours is currently center aligned but your layout has it placed on the left)
  • Make your underline and your text the same width
  • Make your underling and your text have the same layout settings. The issue you’re seeing is because your line is fixed width and your text is set to scale.

Hope this helps!

Here’s what your setup does when the text is left aligned, all three items are the same width and all three are set to scales anchor center.
fixed

Thank you so much @adalojosh @desmet, that helped a lot. I’ll go hang my head in shame in the meantime :smiley:

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