Today we are releasing the new Custom Element: a container you can drag from the Add Panel, with content you've developed separately using JS.
What can you do with it?
We have lots of components and apps in the Editor, but some sites can’t be built.
Custom Elements are here to unblock you.
Using the Custom Element you can build missing site elements such as charts and tags, with full CSS capabilities, interact with visitors scroll and even change the mouse cursor.
It's fully integrated with Corvid and we have lots of help articles explaining how to use it.
How does it compare with the iframe component?
- Custom Element can be resized dynamically in the live site.
- Custom Element requires the live site to be connected to a domain for it to work.
- Using best practices coding the Custom Element will result with faster UI.
- SEO of the Custom Element is supported out of the box, and can also be defined separately to be served to 100% of the SEO bots.
How to use it?
1. Code the custom element on an IDE of your choice (e.g. VS Code, Corvid Embedded IDE)
2. Host the code on Corvid or your own server 3. Add a Custom Element to stage and connect it to the code 4. Read our tutorials to make amazing elements 5. Come back with feedback :)
Known limitations
The Custom Element has limited settings in Editors of older version (no Corvid hosting), So if you use it and your Editor didn't upgrade to the latest version yet (which might take a few months) - hosting the code will be supported only on server. Enjoy!
