Widget Element
The Widget Element was released with Avada 6.2, and offers you the ability to add a single widget directly into your page content, and edit it live on the page. Whereas the Widget Area Element adds a pre-populated Widget Area into your content, this Element allows you to add a single widget directly into your content and populate and configure it through the Element.
This shows the Category Widget, displayed as a dropdown.
How To Use The Widget Element
Step 1. Edit an existing page. Ensure that Avada Builder is activated, by clicking the ‘Use Avada Builder’ button on top of the page editor.
Step 2. Choose the Container and Column you wish to add the Widget Element into. Click on Add new Element.
Step 3. Choose Widget from the Elements List.
Step 4. The General Tab is the place to choose the type of widget you want to add. Select you widget from the drop down box. The widgets you see here will depend on what plugins you have installed and active. When you choose an element, any customizable fields for that widget will appear.
Step 5. Customize the widget as desired. You can also set Element Visibility in this tab, or add a CSS Class or CSS ID to the instance of the element for further customization with Custom CSS.
Step 6. The next step is to customize the design of the Widget. On the Design Tab, you will find a variety of styling options, from background color, radius, border and alignment options.
Step 7. Click Save when you are finished customizing your Widget. It will appear in the row of the Container you added it to. Preview the page to view, and you can always come back and edit the Widget to fine tune the look and function.
Read below for a detailed description of all element options.
Element Options
Location: The edit screen within each Element.
You can deploy as many individual Elements in pages and posts as you need, there is no limit. Within each of the Elements you will see a tab or tabs that house an array of options that make it possible for you to configure each Element independently, and greatly enhance your flexibility and creative options.
Note: The displayed option screens below show ALL the available options for the element. If you have Avada’s Option Network Dependencies turned on, you will only see options relevant to your selections, and so the options screen may look somewhat different.
General Tab
Widget – Choose the type of widget you’d like to add.
Element Visibility – Choose to show or hide the element on small, medium or large screens. You can choose more than one at a time.
CSS Class – Allows you to add a class name to the wrapping HTML element. The class name does not have to be unique, but all areas with the same name will reflect any changes made to the class.
CSS ID – Allows you to add an ID to the wrapping HTML element. The ID must be unique to each CSS ID.
Design Tab
Display Widget Title – Choose to enable or disable the widget title. Specifically useful for WP’s default widget titles.
Padding – Controls the padding for this widget container. Enter value including any valid CSS unit, ex: 10px.
Margin – Controls the margin for this widget container. Enter value including any valid CSS unit, ex: 10px.
Background Color – Controls the background color for this widget container.
Background Radius – Controls the background radius for this widget container.
Border Size – Controls the border size for this widget container.
Border Style – Controls the border style for this widget container. Choose from None, Solid, Dotted or Dashed.
Border Color – Controls the border color for this widget container.
Divider Color – Controls the color of dividers in this widget container. Leave empty for the Theme Options default value or no dividers when using the vertical menu widget.
Content Align – Controls content alignment for this widget container. Choose from Left, Right, Center or Inherit. Inherit means it will inherit alignment from its parent element.
Mobile Content Align – Controls mobile content alignment for this widget container. Choose from Left, Right, Center or Inherit. Inherit means it will inherit alignment from its parent element.
Global Options
There are no Global Options for the Widget Element.
