Elements · Marquee accordion

An accordion whose titles are moving strips: a big word and a photo in a pill, repeated. The strip runs under the mouse; a round arrow on the line opens the item, with a text, a button and a photo.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Elements · Marquee accordion on fancybricks.co — the live preview, and the button that copies it.

In the builder

Preview on the front end. Scripts don't run inside the builder, so here you only see the layout. Save and open the page to see the full result.

Structure

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

Marquee accordion
  Container
    Intro   (FBK Intro)
    Accordion + pause
      Pause button
        Toggle · Pause icon
        Toggle · Play icon
      Accordion
        Item · Islands
          Header
            Title
            Strip (decorative)
              Strip · Word 1
              Strip · Photo 1
              Strip · Word 2
              Strip · Photo 2
              Strip · Word 3
              Strip · Photo 3
              Strip · Word 4
              Strip · Photo 4
              Strip · Word 5
              Strip · Photo 5
              Strip · Word 6
              Strip · Photo 6
            Arrow
          Content
            Inner
              Text
                Text
                Button   (FBK Button)
              Image   (FBK Image)
        Item · Valleys
          Header
            Title
            Strip (decorative)
              Strip · Word 1
              Strip · Photo 1
              Strip · Word 2
              Strip · Photo 2
              Strip · Word 3
              Strip · Photo 3
              Strip · Word 4
              Strip · Photo 4
              Strip · Word 5
              Strip · Photo 5
              Strip · Word 6
              Strip · Photo 6
            Arrow
          Content
            Inner
              Text
                Text
                Button   (FBK Button)
              Image   (FBK Image)
        Item · Coast
          Header
            Title
            Strip (decorative)
              Strip · Word 1
              Strip · Photo 1
              Strip · Word 2
              Strip · Photo 2
              Strip · Word 3
              Strip · Photo 3
              Strip · Word 4
              Strip · Photo 4
              Strip · Word 5
              Strip · Photo 5
              Strip · Word 6
              Strip · Photo 6
            Arrow
          Content
            Inner
              Text
                Text
                Button   (FBK Button)
              Image   (FBK Image)
      Motion · Pause script (needs Execute code)

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 ×3 (FBK Button) › Properties: Text, Link, Tone, Shadow on hover · Icon group: Icon, Icon position · Style group: Style, Size, Width, Hover effect.
4. Select Image ×3 (FBK Image) › Properties: Image, Alt text · Shape group: Proportion, Shape, Decoration, Border · Size and loading group: Loading, Width, Max width, Alignment · Caption group: Caption, Hide caption.
5. Select Accordion › Content › Expand first item and Independent toggle; duplicate an item to add one.
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.

/* «Accordion» · class .fbk-accmarquee */
.fbk-accmarquee {
  /* Speed of one loop of the strip and the space between words and photos */
  --fbk-t-speed: 14s;
  --fbk-t-gap: var(--space-xl);
  /* Line between items and the open item's tint */
  --fbk-t-line: var(--border-color, color-mix(in srgb, var(--base-ultra-dark) 16%, var(--white)));
  --fbk-t-open-bg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--base-ultra-dark) 4%, transparent);
}

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.

Requirements

• Code execution. Needs "Execute code" enabled for the role in Bricks → Settings → Custom code, or the JS block shows as plain text instead of running.

What each requirement is, and how to set it up once for the whole site: Requirements.

Finish by hand

• Hover effect (on by default, removable): the class fbk-accmarquee--hover on Accordion (the arrow takes the brand color under the mouse).
• Each item: the word is the hidden h3 Title (what screen readers read) and the strip repeats it six times with its photo (change all of them). The content has a text, a button and an FBK Image.
• Speed, gap and colors are variables in .fbk-accmarquee (--fbk-t-speed, --fbk-t-gap, --fbk-t-line, --fbk-t-open-bg). The strip's motion is in the Custom CSS of .fbk-accmarquee__track (Style > CSS): it runs under the mouse and with keyboard focus and, while its item is open, on its own (the common pause button above the accordion stops it; it also stops off screen). It stays still for visitors who ask for reduced motion.
• The open state is %root%.brx-open in .fbk-accmarquee__item (tint) and .brx-open %root% in .fbk-accmarquee__arrow (the arrow turns over; it hangs from the item's bottom line, so it goes down with the content).

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-intro.
• 767px and below — .fbk-accmarquee__big, .fbk-accmarquee__inner, .fbk-accmarquee__pill, .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, aria-label).

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--soft, fbk-section--dark.

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

Replaces

• Fancy Accordion from Fancy Bricks 2.0

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