Select an element and add a class in the right style panel (Brush Icon). In this panel you can add text and graphic styles like font color, line height, gradients, borders, shadows, and more. Visual web design is way more fun than coding right?

Similar to adding style to an element, to change the position of an element first add a class and then edit the position properties. You’ll learn about Margin, Padding, Display, Float, Overflow, and Position.

‘Display: inline-block’ example

Description: Setting elements’ Display Setting to Inline-Block will make the width of the block conform to the width of the contents inside it. That means if their content is small enough they can stack next to each other. You can copy paste the buttons above and edit the text inside to see how it works.

make them inline-block yourself

Edit

TIP: Select the elements above and make them Display: Inline-block so they stack next to each other. You’ll see that the images stack next to the buttons. Tip: Dropping the buttons and images into separate Div Blocks will make them stack on top of each other (because Div Blocks are Display: Block by default).

Float example

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Description: Setting Display: Inline-Block or Floating (this example) are the most common ways to stack elements side by side. In this example I’ll show you how to float something.

Float it yourself

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TIP: First select the text field, make it Float: Left and give it a percentage width (ex: 60%). Then set the button to Float: Left as well and set another percentage width (ex: 40%) so they both add up to 100%. That’s a manual way to force any element to stack side by side.

Absolute Position Example

My Cup of Joe

This is a photo caption text.

Featured

Description: If you set Position to Absolute on an element, you’ll be able to position it in anywhere inside its parent block. To choose which parent to position inside of, set the parent element’s Position to Relative. Note: When elements are absolute positioned they float above other elements.

Style It Yourself

My Cup of Joe

This is a photo caption for my favorite cup of Joe.

Featured

TIP: First select the Image Wrapper element and set its Position to Relative. Next select the caption, drag it into the image set it’s Position to Absolute and choose the 7th preset. To position the Featured badge into the correct place choose the 2nd preset and manually position it.

#5 Style Cascading

Utilizing Cascading Styles

You can easily create variations of an element by adding additional classes on top of each other and adding different styles on those classes. Check out the example below where we have different variations of a button.

Shared button styles example

Design the buttons yourself

GREEN Button

RED Button

TIP: Select the second button and click on the [+] next to the class to add another class. You can call it “Green”. Then give it different styles. These styles will override the base styles of the first class. Then create the Red button.

#6 media queries

Designing for different devices

In Webflow you first design your website for desktop devices and then make changes on mobile devices (access the Device icons in the top bar). Adding styles in a mobile device will override the desktop styles.

Responsive Heading example

This is some heading text that gets smaller in mobile devices.

Description: This heading is really big on the desktop, but we want it to be smaller on mobile devices. Click in the devices in the top bar to see that the text size and line height was decreased.

Fix It yourself

Make this big heading text get smaller in mobile devices.

TIP: Select this heading on the Tablet device and make the font size and line height smaller. Do the same for Phone Landscape and Phone Portrait devices. You can see that the

Responsive Button example

Button Text

Description: This button is meant to be small on Desktop screens because it’s easy to click with the mouse cursor. We made it bigger on mobile devices so that it’s easier to tap with the finger

Button Text

Fix It yourself

TIP: Go to the Tablet device and increase the padding of the button. When you do that it will override the previous styles set on Desktop and will cascade down to all the devices below Tablet.

Responsive Columns example