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Responsive design for mobile breakpoints
Responsive design for mobile breakpoints

Learn how to add mobile support to your Subframe designs

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Written by Irvin Zhan
Updated over a week ago

Responsive design is key to a great user experience, especially across devices. With Subframe, you can customize your design for larger (desktop) and smaller (mobile) breakpoints.

Switching breakpoints

Subframe uses desktop-first responsive design, so editing pages starts at the Desktop breakpoint by default. Switch between Desktop and Mobile breakpoints in the top-right of the page editor.

  1. Click on Breakpoint > Mobile to edit at the Mobile breakpoint

  2. Click on Breakpoint > Desktop to edit at the Desktop breakpoint

Tip: adding, deleting, and moving elements affects all breakpoints.

Adding mobile overrides

Once you are editing at the Mobile breakpoint, you can change the style of elements specifically for the mobile breakpoint just as you normally would – including text styles, colors, size, layout, padding, borders, shadows, and visibility. A purple override indicator will appear for any styles you change.

  1. Click on Breakpoint > Mobile

  2. Edit any styles as you would normally

  3. Subframe generates responsive React + Tailwind code for your designs
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Once you apply an override, it will persist even if you make new changes in the Desktop breakpoint. To help you keep track of overrides, look for the phone icon in the layers panel.

Resetting mobile overrides

You can reset mobile overrides so that your elements look the same across all breakpoints.

To reset a particular style (colors, borders, layout, etc) of an element:

  1. Click on the element

  2. Find the style on the right-hand side

  3. Click on the purple indicator to remove any style changes you made on mobile

To reset all mobile styles of an element:

  1. Right-click the element

  2. Select Reset mobile overrides

How does Subframe export mobile to code?

Exported code uses the prefix mobile: for all style overrides. The Mobile breakpoint applies to viewports less than 767px wide using media queries.

Can I add or change breakpoints in Subframe?

Not yet – if you need additional breakpoints or want to adjust the size of existing ones, reach out to [email protected].

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