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Best way to leave empty space on one side of the page?

Hi,

I am on a localhost, so unfortunately I can’t give you a link.

I am trying to do a grid that is left aligned so a background image can be seen clearly on the right.

In order to do this, I have formatted my rows at 32.5%/32.5%/35%. I want Cell 3 to be transparent and I want Cell 2 to have a “background: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.2);” (Cell 1 is an image). I need the text in Cell 2 to be vertically aligned in the center.

I have tried:
1. Setting the cell backgrounds individually in the Row editor – no effect
2. Setting the overall row to “background: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.2);” and Cell 3 as “background: transparent” – Cell 3 still shows up as “background: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.2);” AND the row background as transparent, with Cell 2 as “background: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.2);” – this has no effect on the actual cells
3. Setting the background of the widget at “background: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.2);” – However, this only shows up as a small chunk of grey and is not stretched the whole row. If I use the “Vertical Alignment: stretch” option, it vertically aligns the text/widget to the top.

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  1. 7 years, 1 month ago Alex S
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    Hi Rachel,

    Just to confirm, by transparent, what do you expect to see? The page background?

    1. What do you mean by no effect? As in, no cells have any backgrounds whatsoever? I ask as this is the route I would recommend taking so I’m not too sure why it didn’t work for you.

    2. This makes sense – the cell is on top of the row so if the row has a background color and the cell doesn’t, you’ll see the row background color.

    3. This also makes sense as the widget isn’t always the exact same size of the cell.

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