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

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BrettRockwood
Community Member
4 years ago
I commented on this thread 9 years ago but alas still not a feature. Really a shame.
- MathNotermans-9
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Too bad this is not implemented yet indeed. In my opinion this indeed should be #1 on the list of features to develop. Only workaround i found working is with some complex Javascript.
CrystalFamania
Community Member
4 years ago
This would be helpful!
RobbieChristian
Community Member
4 years ago
Is there any word on this? I would love to be able to fit text boxes to non-rectangular shapes without having to write code.
JohnMorgan-c50c
Former Staff
4 years ago
Hi Robbie,

Being able to fit textboxes to non-rectangular shapes does sound like a great addition to Storyline. Currently, the only way to do that is with JavaScript coding. There has been a feature request submitted for this. I will add your voice to the request. If there is any new information to share, this conversation will be updated.

Thanks for reaching out!
BonnieAsato
Community Member
3 years ago
I know I tried to figure out how to do this last year, and the year before. Yet again this would be super useful, and it's still not a feature as far as I'm aware. Can we subit multiple feature requests for the same thing? Feel like I just need to set submitting a feature request for this as an annual task.
KellyAuner
Staff
3 years ago
Hi Bonnie,

I appreciate hearing your feedback on this and I'll share your comments with the team. We'll update this thread if this makes it on our feature roadmap.
- MariaPowell-5eb
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  I don't understand how we started this discussion 11 years ago and still nothing. This is a basic feature in a software such as Word so how it is not a standard in Storyline?????????

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Text boxes--wrapping text around an object

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