Elements · Slot heading

A big word over a photo whose letters spin like slot-machine reels when it comes into view, bounce and stop at slightly different heights.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Elements · Slot heading 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: the letters don't spin here: the builder shows the title as plain text (the script runs on the front end). 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.

Heading · Slot
  Container
    Slot heading
      Photo (decorative)
      Content
        Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Button   (FBK Button)
      Slot heading (JS)

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 (FBK Button) › Properties: Text, Link, Tone, Shadow on hover · Icon group: Icon, Icon position · Style group: Style, Size, Width, Hover effect.
4. 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.

/* «Slot heading» · class .fbk-slotword */
.fbk-slotword {
  --fbk-t-size: clamp(var(--h1), 14vw, 12em);
  --fbk-t-stretch: 75%;
  --fbk-t-shade: 55%;
  --fbk-t-gap: 0.15;
  /* Spin: total time and the delay between letters */
  --fbk-t-spin: 2.2s;
  --fbk-t-stagger: 0.08s;
}

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

• Write the word in the Intro's title (short words work best: one line). The reels show it in capitals (the effect only reads well with capitals); the script builds them and measures the font, so any font and size line up; screen readers read the title once, as written.
• Word size, layer darkness, spin time and the delay between letters: --fbk-t-* on .fbk-slotword. The spin is the keyframes fbk-slotword-spin in its CSS; how far each letter stops is OFFSETS in the script.
• It spins once (under 5 seconds, no pause needed); for visitors who ask for reduced motion the letters show already stopped. Needs "Execute code"; without it the title shows as plain text.

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-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.

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

Dark mode

This section is dark on purpose (class fbk-section--dark), so it looks the same whether your site is in light or dark mode.

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.

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

Replaces

• Slot text 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.