Issue #5993๐Ÿ’ฌ AnsweredOpened Jul 5, 2024by TutorialMan77270 reactions

Empty panels are showing

Quick answerby TutorialMan7727

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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Question

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

Please feel free to ask for any extra information

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  • I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

Answers (2)

TutorialMan7727โ€ข Jul 5, 2024

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%; }

GJS Helperโ€ข May 17, 2026

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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