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Avada Live Builder Preferences

Avada Live has an intuitive and minimalist workspace, but there are also a range of preferences to help you work in the way you want to. Let’s look at the Preferences, accessed from the main toolbar from the Preferences icon, as seen below.
Read on to discover how you can customize your Workspace with the Avada Live Preferences, and watch the video below for a visual overview.,The PreferencesSidebar Panel PositionElement Editing ModeAutomatically Open Element SettingsEnable Keyboard ShortcutsShow Option Descriptions By DefaultShow Tooltips
Enable Sticky Header & Containers
Enable Transparent Header & Absolute Containers
Enable Preview for Filter OptionsShow Droppable Areas While DraggingSidebar Panel Overlay ModeKeyboard Shortcuts,Sidebar Panel PositionSelect the side which you want the sidebar panel to be displayed on. If you use the Sidebar Element Editing Mode, you can determine whether the panel opens on the left or the right side of the screen. Left is the default.,Element Editing ModeChoose if element editing should be in the sidebar or in a dialog. If you choose dialog, you can resize and move the dialog to whatever position on the screen you prefer.,Automatically Open Element SettingsChoose if the settings should be opened automatically after adding an element. By default, this is turned on. In most cases, the default behavior will be ideal, as when adding an Element, you will usually want to edit it immediately.,Enable Keyboard ShortcutsChoose if Keyboard Shortcuts should be enabled or disabled. There are a range of Keyboard Shortcuts in Avada Live, and you can enable or disable them here. See the Keyboard Shortcuts section below for more detail.,Show Option Descriptions By DefaultChoose if option descriptions should be shown or hidden by default. You can always toggle the description on any of the individual options, but if you prefer to always see the option descriptions, you can set this option to Show.,Show TooltipsChoose if tooltips should be enabled or disabled. This controls the description you get when you hover over any tool in Avada Live. It is on by default.,Enable Sticky Header & ContainersChoose if sticky header and containers should be enabled or disabled. Sticky Headers and Containers can obstruct Container Controls while building. This option just disables the sticky header and containers in the Live Builder, not on the front end.
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Get Avada,Enable Transparent Header & Absolute ContainersChoose if transparent header and absolute containers should be enabled or disabled. Transparent headers can block Container Controls at times, so if your site has a transparent header, or an absolute container, you can enable or disable it in the Live Builder here.,Enable Preview for Filter OptionsChoose if Element filter options preview should be enabled or disabled. Some Elements have a range of Filters, under the Extras tab. This setting determines whether you see a preview of these filters while editing.,Show Droppable Areas While DraggingEnable in order to see all droppable areas while dragging element. With this enabled, you will see all possible droppable areas as a white line. With it disabled, you will only see a blue line as you mouse over a droppable area.,Sidebar Panel Overlay ModeChoose if the sidebar panel should act as an overlay. If enabled, the sidebar will overlay the preview content. If disabled, the preview content will resize to fit the new screen area.,Keyboard ShortcutsAvada Live also comes with a range of shortcuts to help with your efficiency. You can find a full list of these under the Support Icon on the right hand side of the toolbar as seen below.
There are a range of both Toggle Hotkeys, and Action Hotkeys. See the full list below.

Avada Live Global Options Management

With Avada Live, Global Options Management is built directly into the Builder.
What this means, is that while you are editing a page in Avada Live, you can also access the Global Options Panel without leaving the page, make any changes you wish, and have the changes reflect immediately in the document you are working on. This is a great time saving workflow feature and will speed up your work considerably.
Please watch the video, or read on below to find out more about this great new feature.,How To Access Global Options In Avada LiveThere are several types of global options you can access and manage in Avada Live.
The first ones are the Avada Global Options. On the Toolbar, at the top of the page, you will see a row of icons, as shown in the image below. The second one along is the Sidebar icon. Clicking this opens the Sidebar, which has three tabs – the Global Options, the Page Options, and Element Options panel.
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Get Avada,Avada Global OptionsThe Sidebar opens, by default, in a panel on the left of the screen, as seen below. If you prefer, you can set it on the right, via the Preferences icon on the toolbar. The entire set of the Global Options are available to you here in the Sidebar, in an easy to use interface.
Any changes you make in the Global Options are shown directly on the page as it auto-refreshes to show you the changes. Also, after any changes, you will notice the Save Button at the top-right of the Toolbar becomes blue. This signifies changes have been made and are ready to save.,Avada Builder Element OptionsAs part of the Avada Options, there are, of course, the Avada Builder Element Options. This is the penultimate item of the Global Options panel, and is where you can set global options for the Avada Builder Elements.
Like the other global options, any relevant changes you make will be updated instantly on the page, and the Save button will go blue to show there are unsaved changes.,Other Global OptionsSome sections of the page are not editable directly in Avada Live, in the same way, they are not editable in the back-end builder. These areas are not coming from the builder, and are controlled from the Global Options, or other areas in WordPress.
These are areas like the Header, the Menu, the Logo, the Sliders, the Page Title Bar, the Sidebars, the Sliding Bar, and the Footer. You can identify these areas most easily by toggling the Wireframe icon on the top Toolbar. The sections that are not in the Wireframe are outside of page content.
In Avada Live, if you mouse over one of these areas, you will see a Control Bar with icons, and clicking the various icons takes you directly to the relevant section of WordPress, in a new tab, or the Global Options, in the Sidebar Panel. Depending on the icon, and what the default settings are, these may be global or local options. In the Header Control Bar, for example, there is a shortcut to the Header Layout, the Logo, and the Main Menu (all global), as well as an Add Slider Icon if there is no slider on the page (local option), and an Add Page Title Bar Icon (again, only if there is no Page Title Bar already on the page and this Icon is local or global depending on default settings).
If your site has a Custom Header Layout, then instead, there will be a single icon to enable you to edit the active Header Layout Section directly from the page. This will be the same for Page Title Bars, and Footers.,Global Save ButtonAs noted above, there is no Save button at the bottom of the Global Options panel in Avada Live. All changes are updated on the page as soon as they are made, but with Avada Live, we have combined the Save button for both page content, and theme and page options.
So now there is a Global Save Button, on the far right of the top toolbar. When no changes have been made, the icon is grey. It turns blue as soon as any change has been made, whether that is in page content, theme options, or page options, and when you click it, the button turns temporarily green to show you it has saved before turning grey again. History states are also cleared when a page is saved.
See the Avada Live Local Options Management Doc Here!

Avada Live Local Options Management

For a long time in Avada, we have had local options management via the Page Options panel, found at the bottom of every page when editing. With Avada Live, we also have Local Options Management directly on the page. So while you are editing a page in Avada Live, you can also access the Page Options panel as you can in the back-end editor, but here, it is found in the Sidebar panel, which, by default, loads at the left-hand side of the page.
Watch the video, or read on to find out more about this new way of working with Local Options.,How To Access Local Options in Avada LiveThere are several types of Local Options you can access and manage in Avada Live.
The first ones are, of course, the Page Options. On the Toolbar, at the top of the page, you will see a row of icons, as shown in the image below. The second one along is the Sidebar Icon, and clicking on this opens the Sidebar. The Page Options are available from the second icon on the Sidebar, also as shown below.
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Get Avada,Page OptionsThe entire set of Page Options are available to you here, in an easy to use interface. Any changes you make in the Page Options are shown directly on the page as it auto-refreshes to show you the changes.
NB. Two notable changes from the back-end builder are the addition of a Settings tab, which is where you can change the Page Title, Slug, Parent, Page Template, and add featured images to a page, and a Custom CSS tab, which is where you can add local custom CSS for the open page or post.
With any changes you make on the Sidebar, you will notice the Save Icon on the Toolbar becomes blue. This signifies changes have been made and are ready to save.,Other Local OptionsSome local page features are not editable directly in the Front-End Builder, in the same way, they are not editable from the back-end builder. These areas are not in the page content, and are controlled from the Page Options, or other areas in WordPress. These are areas like Sliders, and the Page Title Bar.
Sliders and the Page Title Bar are initially added from the Header Icon Controls, as shown above, but if they are already assigned to the page, then you will instead find both Global and Local Edit Icons, as well as a Remove icon, on the actual Slider or Page Title Bar, as seen below.,Global Save ButtonAs noted above, there is no Save button at the bottom of the Page Options panel in Avada Live. All changes are updated on the page as soon as they are made, but with Avada Live we have combined the Save button for both page content, and theme and page options.
So now there is one Global Save button, on the far right of the top toolbar. When no changes have been made, the icon is grey. It turns blue as soon as any change has been made, whether that is in page content, or global or page options, and when you click it, the button turns temporarily green to show you it has saved before turning grey again. History states are also cleared when a page is saved.
See the Avada Live Global Options Management Doc Here!

Best Practices for Inline Editing in Avada Live

One of the great new features in Avada Live is the ability to edit text directly on the page. Not only can you edit text, but you can also apply a range of inline editing options, including font color, and size. But several of these options also exist in the element options, so it’s good to know what the best practices are for working with inline editing. Watch the video or read on to find out…,OverviewInline Editing & Formatting
Editing Elements As A Whole
Editing Part Of An ElementInline Options,Inline Editing & FormattingInline editing is available with any text-based elements in Avada Live. That will be the Title Element and the Text Block primarily, but also any element that has editable text components, like the Button, Alert, Checklist, Content Boxes, Countdown and Progress Bar Elements to name a few.
Inline editing can be seen in two ways. The first is simply changing the content directly on the page. In Avada Live, you can simply click in the text content, and start typing to add or edit existing text.
The second type of inline editing is inline formatting. When we make a selection in our text, the Inline Editor appears, and here we can make a variety of typography changes to our selection.
The guiding principle when it comes to inline editing is that if you want to change the content in its entirety – change the font color, or size, etc – then it’s best to look in the element options for this – but if you just want to change a single word to bold or a different color etc, then inline editing is perfect for that.
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Get Avada,Editing Elements As A WholeTo start with, let’s look at an example of what we can do with the Title Element.
In the design tab of the Title Element, let’s look at the changes we can make to the Element as a whole. Here, we can change the alignment of the title, and set the Heading Size, which itself, has a range of default options set in the individual Header tags in the theme options.
If we wish, we can also override any of these global element options for this single instance of the element, including the font size, the line height, letter spacing, margins, font color and separator style, and color. All the changes made here apply to the title as a whole.,Editing Part of An ElementWhereas if we wanted to just change one word, or a section of the Title Element, we can select the desired text, and the Inline Editor appears. There are a variety of typography options that you can change with inline formatting. In this example below, I have edited the actual word, and then made it bold and changed its color.
If you look at the element in text view, you can then see the inline HTML that has been applied to the element.,Inline OptionsLet’s have a quick systematic look at the inline options.
The first one is typography, where we can change the font size, line height, letter and spacing, as well as the font tag and even the font family and variant. Next is the font color. Then there are a few typical formatting options like Bold, Italic and Underlined. Next, you can quickly add a link to any selected text, and next to that are alignment options. This option will affect the entire paragraph, even if you have just one word selected.
Next to this is the icon for the Extended Options. These are Strikethrough.. Blockquote (again, this will affect the entire paragraph), as will the next four options – unordered and ordered lists and indent and outdent. The next option will remove formatting already applied, and the penultimate one closes the extended options.
The very last option allows you access to the Inline Elements, like Dropcap, Highlight, and Popover. These are special elements that only work in conjunction with text or other content, and not directly on their own. Please read the Inline Elements Doc for more information on these elements.
Another important thing to note is that inline edit options override element options. If you follow best practices, this won’t be an issue.
Avada also has a great new feature, that if it detects you are making an inline edit on an entire element, it will transfer that change to the element options, instead of leaving it as inline HTML. Now that’s smart!

Cloning, Copying & Moving Elements in Avada Live

To make it easier for you to copy and move your page content around in Avada Live, you will find a range of clone, copy and move functions.
Read on to find out more about how to work with content in Avada Live, or watch the video for a visual overview.,CloningIn Avada Builder, you can easily clone any of your page content. Cloning an object is making a duplicate copy of it. Whether it is a Container, a Column, or an Element, the cloned object is then placed immediately after the original object. This is the main difference between cloning and copying. With copying, the object is held in memory on the clipboard, but with cloning, it is simply duplicated and inserted.
There are two ways to clone objects in Avada Builder. The first one is to use our right-click functionality. This is available in both the Back-End and Front-End Builders, and allows you to select from a range of options. Simply right-click over your desired Container, Column, or Element and right-click. This brings up a contextual menu, and Clone is one of the options available.
With Parent and Child items, it should be noted you can clone either the child or the parent (which includes all the children). In the example below, I have right clicked over the Parent Counter Boxes, and so I would be cloning the entire row of Counter Boxes.
The second way to clone an object is to choose Clone from the Container, Column or Element Controls. When you hover over an Element Control, you will see a range of icons. One of these is the clone icon. Simply click that icon, and the object will again be cloned and inserted immediately after the object cloned.
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Get Avada,CopyingCopying an object is to copy the underlying code and hold it in memory on the clipboard. Copying is only accessible from the Right-Click function in Avada Live. It is similar to Cloning, but different as well.
When you copy a Container, Column, or Element, you are essentially copying the code to the clipboard. If you then right-click on a different part of the page, you can then paste the copied object into a new part of the page. It’s the equivalent of cloning an object and then dragging it to a new place on the page.
When you copy an Element you can also paste this into text-based areas as well, such as a Widget or Slider input field, etc.,MovingYou can also just move an object in Avada Builder. Any time you see the clenched hand icon, you can drag the object you are hovering over, and grey guidelines will appear showing you where you can drag it to. When you drag it to a place where it can successfully be moved, the line turns blue and you can let go.
What you need to be aware of is that you can’t drag a container into a column or element position, so not every place you try to move objects to will work. Consider what you are trying to move carefully and you will have much more success.
You can also hover over the live controls of any specific element and choose the Move option. This is sometimes more useful for selecting specific elements in amongst many others.
In the example below, I am moving an entire column up above the column above. You can see the line to the left of the top column has turned blue, which lets me know I can place the column there. Because they are both full-width columns, the moved column will be placed above the other column.