Placeholder gif limits responsiveness

@echofoxtrot – You appear to be describing an issue with your theme … how is it applying to NextGEN Gallery? and, have you taken it up with the theme author as well?

– Cais.

Thanks for your fast response. I don’t think I explained it very well. Here is the issue. I am using Nextgen to show a slideshow on a particular page. The images in the slideshow are 940×623. At full size, the website looks fine; the images fill the desired space and all is well. However, if I reduce the screen size to the point that the right sidebar falls below the content, the images in the slideshow resize to fit the space, which is great, but the div that contains the images still takes up 623 pixels in height. It appears to be filled by a .gif placeholder image that is 100×100 pixels. This seems to be hard-coded into the plugin via an inline style, so that I cannot change it with my style sheet. The result is that anything below the image – such as the sidebar, which at mobile device screen sizes is “under” the images, or the footer – is pushed at least 623 pixels “down”, which leaves a lot of white space.

I hope that is a clearer explanation of the issue. Thanks very much. It’s a wonderful plugin; this is the first time I have run into this issue and I hope that there is a solution.

Echofoxtrot

@echofoxtrot – We are seeing this in some cases, would you be able to share a link to your site where we could see this?

– Cais.

Yes. I have made a different example, but you can see the issue. The placeholder is pushing the content (text) “down” as you make the screen smaller.

https://xraytango.com/about-us/

@echofoxtrot – Thanks, this issue is on our to-do list for a near future release as it is a bit more involved.

I have added your URL as an additional sample to our internal notes on this problem.

– Cais.

Great – thanks! Your plugin is popular for a good reason. Glad I could help.

@echofoxtrot – Thank you!

– Cais.

I am having this issue as well, where the placeholder image is creating empty space on my responsive theme.

Has this been addressed? I am running 2.0.66.29

@josiah – As this is two months old, I would recommend starting your own topic.

See https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

Thanks!

– Cais.

Hello Mr Photocrati member Plugin Author
I am having this problem too.

I have two images inserted into the front page of the website https://www.daintreecascades.com.au/ on a desktop computer you can click on them to go to their pages The Round House and The Cottage but on a mobile device you cannot click on the images at all. I have been informed that this has something to do with the wonderful next gen gallery plug in I am using.

Above you say you plan to work on this that was 4 months ago has there been any progress there. Thank you in advance. Gabrielle

@justpurple – This seems like a different issue again, please create your own topic so we can look at this specifically.

Thanks!

– Cais.

FYI: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post