Resizing canvas makes componenents end up with wrong positions once exported with dmode 'absolute'
I have sort of found a workaround... Set the .gjs-frame-wrapper to the desired width in CSS and transform: translate (- x px, 0px) for the iframe in CSS. The Canvas is not the correct width then (slightly smaller) but everything seems to work fine nonetheless... I am not going to close the issue however, due to the fa...
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GrapesJS version [X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Microsoft edge 98.0.1108.56 Reproducible demo link https://jsfiddle.net/473b2tah/1/ Describe the bug The canvas resize is cool but does not take into account that one might be working with px offsets because of dmode which works with px offsets, meaning, the zoomed in canvas, does not reflect the exported index.html page. The entire right side is empty once exported because the images are never told to rescale to fit the exported version. So for example here the canvas is at 0.85 scaling, which me...
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I have sort of found a workaround... Set the .gjs-frame-wrapper to the desired width in CSS and transform: translate (- x px, 0px) for the iframe in CSS. The Canvas is not the correct width then (slightly smaller) but everything seems to work fine nonetheless... I am not going to close the issue ho...
Thanks for reporting this, @Adham380. The issue with Resizing canvas makes componenents end up with wrong positions once exported with dmode 'absolute' appears to be a race condition or state management timing problem. This typically happens when component lifecycle events and DOM modifications ove...
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