🏛️ Designing Your Email – Using Columns

Columns enable versatile layouts that allow you to combine multiple types of content within one section. Consider these examples of columns in practice:

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Dribble uses two columns, each displaying two images.

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Trello’s latest update features side-by-side content with one image and one text block.

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Etsy combines images and text across three columns.

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Vudu utilizes four columns to highlight movies that even Netflix might pass on.

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Adding columns to your message

When you drag the columns component onto the canvas, a popup appears allowing you to select both the number of columns and the space each column will occupy within the row.

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For instance, choosing a two-column layout will create two placeholders on the canvas

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Where you can drop components such as images, text, or buttons.

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

The overall row that houses your column layout is called a section, indicated by a blue highlight,

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While each individual column is marked with a purple highlight. 

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Clicking within a purple area displays the component’s toolbar (for example, the toolbar for an image), and clicking within a blue area produces the section toolbar.

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Using the section toolbar, accessed via the section edit pencil, you can adjust several settings:

Set vertical alignment for content (top, middle, or bottom of each column).

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Change the number of columns in a section.

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Modify column proportions by adjusting widths.

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail

Add additional content to your layout.

Designing your email - Using Columns | IGSendMail


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