From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards (2019)

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Floating vs. tiles layout

Floating vs. tiles layout - Tableau Tutorial

From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards (2019)

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Floating vs. tiles layout

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- [Narrator] One thing to consider when you're building your dashboard layout is are you going to go for a tiled or a floating layout. Now this is one of the biggest debates in the Tableau world. Do you go for tiled or do you go for floating? Now there are two main options for our layout. Do we want to go for all tiled layout, where all of our elements are arranged in a grid? Or do you want to have a free-flowing dashboard where all of the elements are floating and can be positioned anywhere in the dashboard? So what is the advantage of going for 100% tiled layout? Firstly, it's going to use a grid layout. Now generally, this works pretty well for a standard dashboard. It allows quick, easy alignment and fairly rigid structure. Now the downside to that is sometimes it can be hard to place objects exactly where you want them. But for standard grid layout, tiled is a really good choice. Now the benefit of the 100% floating layout is there's no grid. That means that any element can be…

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