## Linking HTML or graphic items

Freeway allows you to link two or more HTML items or graphic items, so that text automatically flows between the items when you are editing the page.

Note that the text flow is only active while you are editing the Freeway document. When you publish the site the text is broken into separate blocks.

When you select linked items, a red arrow shows the text flow:

You can select text across linked items in the usual way, by dragging or by choosing Select All from the Edit menu.

### To link two or more items

- Select the Flow tool.

- Click the first item and then each subsequent item in the same order that you want text to flow through them.

Text placed in the first item will flow through the linked items until all the text is placed.

### To unlink items

- Select the Break Flow tool.

- Click one of the linked items to display the links.
- Click the red line linking the items.

The item pointed to by the link is removed from the flow of text and text reflows into the item that was before the removed item.

If it is an HTML item, it will resize vertically to contain the new text.

If it is a graphic item, it will display an overflow icon in the bottom left corner to show that there is more text in the box than can be displayed.

### To delete a text box from the text flow

- Select the box using the Select tool, and delete it.

Text will reflow into the remaining text boxes.

### To cut a linked text box

Cutting a text box from a linked chain is the same as deleting it; the text will reflow into the remaining text boxes.

### To insert a break to the next linked text box

You can insert a break to flow the text from where you currently are to the next box in the flow.

- Position the cursor where you would like the break to begin.
- Open the Insert menu and choose Break, or type [Command] [Enter].

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