Layout

The Layout tab in the sidebar provides a visual outline of your paywall’s components. Hovering over elements will highlight them in the device preview:

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Adding elements

Click + Add Element in the Layout tab to select an element to add to your paywall. This will present our library of components along with any snippets you’ve made (along with some of our own stock recipes):

At the top, you can choose from our core, fundamental building blocks such as a stack, text and more.

Our stock components include:

• Stack: The foundation of any layout, it works like CSS Flexbox layout. Check out this reference if you’re new to Flexbox rules, alignment or just need a refresher.
• Text: Text components that can use variables, different font styles and more.
• Icon: Superwall has over 1,000 searchable icons to available, along with the ability to edit their weight and color. You can browse them by category by clicking on the right hand side:
• Lottie: A Lottie file. Either point to a URL of where it’s located at, or upload one yourself. You can also customize looping, playback speed and more.
• Video: Add any video, or URL where it’s located, to your paywall. You can choose to loop it, show or hide playback controls, mute it or toggle autoplay. We support most file formats but we do recommend keeping the file size around 2-5 megabytes.
• Image: Add any image, or URL where it’s located, to your paywall.

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Snippets

Snippets allow you to aggregate one or more components together to reuse. For example, if you have a stack component with an icon and a text label, you could group that together to use as a component either in the current paywall, or another one later.

To add a snippet, select the component you want to use for your snippet and click the bookmark icon:

Then, give your snippet a name and description and click Save:

From then on, you can reuse it when adding a new component to any paywall. You’ll see your own snippets at the bottom. Here’s the one we just made in this example:

Note that you can edit any snippet you add, it will not overwrite the original snippet. If you do want any edits you make to be used as a snippet, simply make another snippet with the one you’ve edited.

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Re-ordering components or adding them as children

To reorder components on your paywall, you can simply drag and drop them in the Layout tab:

1. Hovering on another component will add the current component you’re dragging as a child of the other component.
2. Hovering above or below other components will reorder the component you’re dragging either above or below the other component.

You’ll see a box filled in when you’re adding a component as a child component, or you’ll see a thin line to indicate you’re reordering components. In the image below, notice how “The second cool feature” should be listed in the middle. Simply dragging it above the component in the middle will correctly reorder it:

Reordering and adding components as children is all done via the Layout tab. It’ll always represent the current hierarchy of your paywall’s components.

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Deleting, renaming and copying elements

You can delete and copy components by selecting them in the Layout tab and then clicking on one of the following icons as seen in this image:

From left to right, here’s what each icon does:

• Trashcan: Deletes the component.
• Bookmark: Creates a snippet from the component.
• Square on Square: Copies the component.
• Plus sign: Adds a new component.

To rename a component, double click on its current name to edit it.

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Undo and redo

If you make a mistake, most actions can be undone the command/control+Z keyboard shortcut. At the top right of the editor, you’ll also see the common undo and redo icons:

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Component editor

Any component you select will open its editable properties in the component editor, which is on the right side of the editor window. You can change padding, text and anything related to a component here. To learn more, check out the dedicated page over editing components here.