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

AllanDunlop
Community Member
13 years ago
It would be a great feature request and I encourage you to send one.

Done. Thanks, Brett.
- CarolynHammer-0
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Sadly 8 years have passed and still it's not a feature...
ChadDranchuk
Community Member
10 years ago
This is really too bad. Does anyone know if this feature has been added in SL 2?

Thanks
GaryCollins
Community Member
10 years ago
This shouldn't be hard for them to do, and surprised they haven't already.

I can see the text not wrapping if the textbox and image are two separate objects.

But, if you had the option to add an image inside of a text box then the text should wrap around it with no issues.

I would think that this would be basic html programming.

<div>
<img src="someimage.jpg" style="float: right;">
Here is some text in the container
</div>

Off to make feature request.
GeneRukavina
Community Member
9 years ago
I also just sent in a feature request for this. For all the great features in Storyline 2, I was a bit surprised that there is no way to wrap text around an image, etc. This seems like a pretty basic feature!
KellyTaylor-cb5
Community Member
9 years ago
Just submitted a request as i noticed it wasn't included in the most recent update :(
PaulaObrien-129
Community Member
8 years ago
Off to the feature request! I'm just glad this discussion was posted so I didn't have to spend a lot of time looking for the feature when it isn't there yet. Thanks!
AlyssaGomez
Staff
8 years ago
Thank you for submitting a feature request, Paula! And I'm glad to hear this thread was a time-saver for you!
- BrettRockwood
  Community Member
  8 years ago
  Even bigger time saver will be when we're able to automatically wrap text. ;-)
liliansoon
Community Member
8 years ago
I'm guessing we need to keep asking for this feature! ;-)
AshleyS
Community Member
8 years ago
YES this would be so helpful!!!
SamanthaKitover
Community Member
8 years ago
Today at the Articulate Roadshow in Seattle we learned about scrolling panels. If used in a slide master, IDs have the ability to add a Picture Placeholder in the scrolling panel. Unfortunately because there is no floating text feature, the Picture Placeholder functionality is less valuable since text will be behind a photo you would like to be inside your scrolling panel.

I +1 the feature enhancement request.