Unable to get rid of padding and set background color to "none" on Storyline Block

Hi JC,

Light grey is the default background for a Storyline block in Rise.

However, if you click on the chequerboard next to the word Hex in the Settings, you should then get the option to select a background colour for your Storyline block. If your Storyline file has a white background and you select the white option, you won't see any padding margin around the outside even if your padding is greater than zero.

Hi Ned,

It's not a question of making the padding the same color as the background. It's a question on getting rid of the padding altogether so that there is no space between blocks. Sometimes you need to do this for design purposes where you want to make 2 consecutive blocks seem like one block. We can do this with all other blocks, why not the Storyline Block? 

As for the background color, why should the Storyline Block behave in a different way than the other blocks? And if the default color for this block is light grey, why does the background color thumbnail show a checkerboard for transparency? 

Yes, I can change the color, but what bugs me is the time lost trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. If padding cannot be zero, why show it at zero in settings? If the background cannot be transparent, then why show the checkerboard pattern? This all leads to confusion and time lost posting messages on forums. Consistency should be part of a good software.

Hi JC,

I must admit that it is strange why the Storyline block should act differently to the other blocks, particularly as it appears to be the only one that doesn't have a clear (effectively white) background by default.

The even stranger thing about the padding is that it does reduce each time you select a lower number and yet "no padding" would appear to be about +50px at the top and +70px at the bottom!!

It will be interesting to see staff comments on this one.

Has there been any explanation or workaround regarding the additional padding on Storyline blocks. I've been trying to remove it by tinkering with the SL player settings, but I haven't had much luck. Like JC, I also combine multiple blocks to look like a single block, but it's difficult to achieve using SL blocks due to the excess padding. There's definitely some design potential that is being lost here.

Hi Ian,

Thanks for letting us know you need to completely remove the padding and container area around a Storyline block. I can understand the use case!

Are the staff on here Bots or something? The responses are seriously unhelpful. Is there work being done to remove the padding or not?

Please add my vote to remove the padding around Storyline blocks.  The large gap creates serious design issues.

If the storyline block is a non-standard size, say 1000px wide by 100px high, the padding is pronounced and quite annoying. With top and bottom padding set to 0, there is still quite a bit of padding. It's on my quite long list of gripes about the internal inconsistencies of Rise.

Hello
Please also add my vote.
If we can choose to remove any block, why can't we remove the heading block?
Or at least resize it?

I'd like to know about this too. I'm trying to insert a storyline block and I want it to look seamless with my other content but the whitespace is so massive it looks strange! Please allow us to remove the padding on the storyline blocks.