Is there a way to insert an image in a text box, and have the text flow around it? (Similar to the 'float' function in HTML.) If not, does anyone know of a workaround that replicates this? Thanks!

Dear Storyline Staff and Developers, Thank you so much for a wonderful product and incredible community of support. Happy Holidays to all of you and your families. I can think of no better gift for all of your customers this season than to "wrap-up" some text. If you could you add this merry and joyous feature (text-wrapping) to your product soon, I promise to keep the spirit, "all the live long year" and pass it on to others in the community. Remember this time of year, during those long winter days, the designers and developers in their cold offices, desperately trying to figure out another way to text-wrap around the photo of a loved one. Their fingers huddled around the candle yearning for warmth. Please spirit show me no more... If only we could give them more time to hurry home and hold their loved ones by the warm hearth by offering a simple text wrapping feature. Tell me these are the shadows of yet to come?

Nope. Still not there. I usually resort to forced line breaks to get this done. Of course there is danger there if you have to edit the text afterward. Put in the feature request. The more a feature is requested the more likely it will be implemented — I've seen it happen ;-) My wish would be to be able to add text to any shape. So for instance you create a circle and the text would wrap to fill the circle. This way you could create any kind of shape you needed to fit around another object and then fill that shape with your text. (This is the way page layout programs like InDesign work.) The next step would be to add text threading where you could have several linked text boxes of any shape where the text flows through them automatically. That is a very powerful feature.

Six years late to this conversation, but since it's still not in SL, I'm going to add to the feature request! It would be very nice to have text wrap around an image or shape!

This feature needs to be added. I'm finding out more and more that Storyline is great, but it seriously misses some basic functions

Although Storyline as is does not have real word-wrapping it can still be done. With the help of Javascript, CSS and HTML5 you can make it happen. This library for example makes it happen.http://www.jwf.us/projects/jQSlickWrap/ A nice library when doing typographyhttp://letteringjs.com/A pure CSS solution is possible too..https://codepen.io/demiton/pen/GRgdbYPHere a good approach using CSS-shapes in HTML5https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/shapes/getting-started/ Another samplehttps://codepen.io/dudleystorey/pen/FvJDBFunny thing when searching for solutions i found one of my own older posts (2015) on how to fix this in Lectora. In Storyline this would work too...even easier since recently the newest GSAP is included default in SL.https://community.trivantis.com/shared-content/text-wrap-around-an-image/========================================================================As Storyline treats all assets as inline SVG the above solutions might be hard to implement. So i searched for some SVG based solutions.https://bl.ocks.org/davelandry/a39f0c3fc52804ee859ahttps://jsfiddle.net/IPWright83/22ahj15o/Although not directly textflow/wrapping still nice this one..https://csswarp.eleqtriq.com/And this last one for sure is very promising.https://css-irl.info/experimental-layouts/One thing to watch is Storyline's own behaviour with texts and textareas. If you enable 'Wrap text in shape' on a Storyline Text Box internally Storyline will make <tspan> elements for each line. This offcourse hinders any approach above, but you can still make it work with some effort.

Text boxes--wrapping text around an object

JaneKwiatkowski
Community Member
8 years ago
Hello - as a new user to Articulate I am trying to place a box around a screen print to help the user find what to select on the page, is this possible, thanks.
- Crystal-Horn
  Staff
  8 years ago
  Hi Jane! Welcome to Articulate. 😁
  
  Do you need to insert a shape to highlight something on your image? You can try using the rectangle shape formatted with an outline and no fill, like this:
  
  Let me know if that's what you're going for!
CarlDavis
Community Member
8 years ago
Has this feature been added to SL360? Under the Format Shape>Text box there is a "wrap text in shape" option with a check box, but it is always grayed out. Do I need to access it in a different way to check that box?
AlyssaGomez
Staff
8 years ago
Hi Carl,

You should see the option to "Wrap text in shape" if there is text included in a text box or in a shape. If the "wrap text" option is checked, the text will wrap within the dimensions of the shape, meaning the text will not extend beyond the width of the shape.

It sounds like you want to have the option to wrap text around another object, like an image. Is that correct? That's not currently a feature in Storyline 360, but I can see how it would be handy. I'll pass the idea along--thanks for letting us know how we can make things better!
KelKrehbiel
Community Member
6 years ago
Bumping this thread and submitting another feature request. This would be very helpful.
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago
Thanks for adding your voice, Kel!
WhitneyMiller-N
Community Member
6 years ago
Bump and submitting!
KatieRiggio
Staff
6 years ago
Hi, Whitney. Thanks for your vote!

We'll let everyone participating in this discussion know if there's any forward movement on such a feature. Here's a glimpse into how we prioritize feature requests!
PiotrGerhardt
Community Member
6 years ago
Oh yes, we absolutely need this feature!
DiannaVerlaan-4
Community Member
6 years ago
Yes, please! I would like to see the feature to wrap text around an object too! Thanks.
MickPhilipsen
Community Member
6 years ago
Another request for said feature submitted. Not sure I'm too hopeful, given there seem to have been similar requests sent for several years now... but hey-ho, don't ask, don't get.