Blog · Post mosaic

The five latest posts as a mosaic of FBK Post cards with the photo filling each card: the newest one big, two columns by two rows, the other four around it; on hover a line draws along the bottom and the big card's excerpt opens under its title.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Blog · Post mosaic on fancybricks.co — the live preview, and the button that copies it.

Structure

This is what the Bricks Structure panel shows after you paste the template. Component instances say which component they are.

Blog · Post mosaic
  Container
    Intro   (FBK Intro)
      Button · Primary   (FBK Button)
    Posts
      Post loop
        Post card   (FBK Post card)

The template also pastes a dashed note above the section, with the short version of this page. It only shows inside the builder, never on the published page — see Builder notes.

How to adjust

Every step is the same move: pick the element in the Structure panel, change its Properties.

Where are those panels?

How to adjust a template shows every one of them in a screenshot of the real builder: the Structure and Properties panels, the classes on an element, a component's style families and the field where a CSS variable goes.

The classes this element carries, in the Bricks panel.

This template's own component, with its Style group open.

1. Paste the template in Bricks first — see Copy and paste.
2. Select Intro (FBK Intro) › Properties: Eyebrow, Hide eyebrow, Title, Title level, Lead, Hide lead · Style group: Eyebrow style, Highlight, Title size, Accent line · Layout group: Alignment, Layout, Background, Spacing · Motion group: Reveal in slider.
3. Select Button · Primary (FBK Button) › Properties: Text, Link, Tone, Shadow on hover · Icon group: Icon, Icon position · Style group: Style, Size, Width, Hover effect.
4. Select Post card (FBK Post card) › Properties: Read more text · Show group: Excerpt length, Hide excerpt, Hide Read more, Hide author, Hide photo, Author and date, Hide reading time, Hide comment count, Category, Date · Style group: Look, Tone, Shape, Padding, Title size · Layout group: Layout, Photo position, Photo shape, Title level, HTML tag · Motion group: Photo hover, Card hover.
5. Select Post loop (query loop) › Query: post type, number of posts, order and filters.
6. Spacing, sizes, color and timing with no property of their own: the CSS variables below.

CSS variables

These are the only values in the template meant to be changed by hand. Copy the block, paste it, edit the numbers.

The Custom CSS field of this template's own element, with one of its variables as a real example.

/* «Posts» · class .fbk-blogmosaic */
.fbk-blogmosaic {
  /* Height of a small card (the big one takes two rows and the gap) */
  --fbk-t-card-h: 17em;
  --fbk-card-overlay-height: var(--fbk-t-card-h);
}

Paste the block in the element's Style → CSS field (the selector is already in it), or set the same variables on the class itself to change every copy at once. The values are your framework's variables, so they follow your site: Choosing a framework.

Finish by hand

• Posts: the query loop is on the li around Post card (Query: posts). Change the number, order or category there. Each post needs a featured image (cards without one show no photo). Card options are on Post card: what to show (category, date, author, excerpt), look, layout, photo shape and hover. The line hover is the class fbk-post--line and the photo zoom fbk-post--zoom (both through the Card hover and Photo hover options).
• Mosaic: four columns, and the first post of the loop spans two columns and two rows (CSS of .fbk-blogmosaic, li:first-child). Show 5 posts to fill it (or 9 for a second row of four). --fbk-t-card-h on .fbk-blogmosaic is the height of a small card. Tablets: two columns with the big post across; phones: one column.
• Here Post card uses Layout Overlay (the photo fills the card), Card hover Line and reveal (the excerpt opens on hover) and a short excerpt; the big card's title is H3 size and the small ones H5, without excerpt (CSS of .fbk-blogmosaic), so no card grows on hover.

On phones

The template is designed desktop first, the Bricks default, and only changes at the two widths the library uses:

• 991px and below — .fbk-blogmosaic, .fbk-intro.
• 767px and below — .fbk-blogmosaic, .fbk-section.

Those changes live in Bricks' own breakpoint fields, so you edit them where you always do: pick the breakpoint in the toolbar and the same fields follow.

Careful with the classes shared by the whole library (fbk-section, fbk-intro, the component classes): a change there shows up in every template that uses them.

If your site's breakpoints are set up mobile first, copy the mobile-first variant of the template instead — see Copy and paste.

Accessibility

In this template, keyboard focus is visible on every interactive piece; movement is cut back when the visitor's system asks for less motion; the state screen readers need is already set (aria-hidden).

What is checked on every template, and what depends on your own palette: Accessibility.

Dark mode

With your site in dark mode this section turns dark too — the class fbk-section--auto-dark on the section does it. Remove the class to keep it light.

Its background is a modifier on the section, so you can swap it for any of the ones the template is checked with: fbk-section--light, fbk-section--dark, fbk-section--soft.

How the library follows your site's color scheme: Dark mode and preview.

Replaces

• 01 – Post Grid from Fancy Bricks 1.0
• 02 – Post Grid from Fancy Bricks 1.0
• 03 – Post Grid from Fancy Bricks 1.0
• 04 – Post Grid from Fancy Bricks 1.0
• 05 – Post Grid from Fancy Bricks 1.0
• 06 – Post Grid from Fancy Bricks 1.0

What happened to the old libraries, and what to do with pages already built with them: Migrating from 1.0/2.0.