21 January: A better site footer, clearer cards, keyboard formatting and more
This week we’ve made visual improvements to your site’s footer, added placeholders to empty card fields, add keyboard formatting options, and more
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This week we’ve made visual improvements to your site’s footer, added placeholders to empty card fields, add keyboard formatting options, and more
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We’ve shipped a number of improvements to the footer, which all add up to a cleaner and more adaptive look for the bottom of your page.
The footer now allows for more than four groups of links, so you’ll soon be able to add many more groups and GitBook will automatically organize them in a neat grid.
We’ve increase the footer logo size to allow for wider logos. If your site already used a wider logo, you’ll notice that it now displays larger and fits better on the page.
We’ve also improved the layout of the footer, so that your links and the copyright notice align perfectly with your page content.
These changes are all live now, and your site footer should have updated automatically.
We’ve been making a number of improvements to cards over the last few weeks, and that continues this week. Here are the latest updates:
You’ll now see placeholders on any card with empty text and number fields to show that data is needed in those slots. Other empty card elements also now show buttons that prompt you to add links, files, users or a multi-selection with a click.
We’ve also improved the alert tooltip that appears when you insert a non-numeric value into a number field. It’ll simply notify you that the content of the field needs to be a number.
We’ve update the default content of a card block. Previously new card blocks featured three cards, each with three empty fields. We’ve updated this, so the default for a card block to be one card with one line of text, and a placeholder next to it to add more.
You can now add keyboard formatting to any text in GitBook — perfect for writing keyboard shortcuts in your docs. For example, you could tell people that they can hit ⌘+/ or Ctrl+/ to open a block’s Options menu in GitBook, if you really wanted to.
To add keyboard formatting, highlight the text you want to format and choose the Keyboard option from the inline palette.
When you’re customizing a docs site with multiple site sections or variants, you can easily set site-wide customizations. But you can also override customization settings for specific sections or variants, if you want.
Previously, once you changed something at a section or variant level that override couldn’t be reset. Now, we’ve added a button that let’s you reset any overrides back to the site-wide settings, so you can quickly align all your site spaces once again.
We’re constantly working on improving the way you and your team work in GitBook, and value your input on features, bugs, and more. Make sure you head to our official GitBook community to join the discussion.
You can now rename spaces in your organization right from the sidebar. Just find your space, open the Actions menu and choose Rename.
