Empty panels are showing
So, the CSS below didn't work. I had to manually change the CSS in the grapes.min.css file. The CSS couldn't override the CSS in grapes.min.css. .gjs-cv-canvas { top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
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GrapesJS version
- I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS
What browser are you using?
Opera 109
Reproducible demo link
https://jsfiddle.net/9zmyrhoe/
Describe the bug
How to reproduce the bug? Open the jsfiddle above and run
What is the expected behavior? The panels not meant to show
What is the current behavior? Black empty panels
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So, the CSS below didn't work. I had to manually change the CSS in the grapes.min.css file.
The CSS couldn't override the CSS in grapes.min.css.
.gjs-cv-canvas { top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
The issue of "empty black panels" appearing in your GrapesJS editor, even when panels.defaults is set to an empty array, stems from how GrapesJS initializes its UI. While setting panels.defaults: [] prevents any buttons or content from being added to the default panels, the HTML containers for thes...
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