Elements · Split carousel

One wide slide per view with the neighbors peeking out under a brand-color cover. The active slide uncovers itself and opens its text beside the photo (under it on phones).

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Elements · Split carousel 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.

Split carousel
  Container
    Intro   (FBK Intro)
    Carousel
      Slide · A wild coast
        Slide · Figure
          Slide · Photo
          Slide · Caption
            Caption · Clip
              Caption · Body
                Slide · Title
                Slide · Text
      Slide · A quiet reservoir
        Slide · Figure
          Slide · Photo
          Slide · Caption
            Caption · Clip
              Caption · Body
                Slide · Title
                Slide · Text
      Slide · A quiet valley
        Slide · Figure
          Slide · Photo
          Slide · Caption
            Caption · Clip
              Caption · Body
                Slide · Title
                Slide · Text
      Slide · A hidden waterfall
        Slide · Figure
          Slide · Photo
          Slide · Caption
            Caption · Clip
              Caption · Body
                Slide · Title
                Slide · Text

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 Carousel › Content › Options (loop or fade, autoplay, items per page, gap), Arrows and Pagination; one slide = one child, duplicate it to add more.
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.

/* «Carousel» · class .fbk-splitslide */
.fbk-splitslide {
  /* Height of every slide */
  --fbk-t-height: clamp(22em, 30vw, 26em);
  /* Width of the text beside the photo */
  --fbk-t-text-w: 24em;
  /* Color over the slides that are not the active one, and the bar by the text */
  --fbk-t-cover: var(--primary);
  --fbk-t-accent: var(--fbk-accent);
  --fbk-t-arrow-inset: var(--space-s);
  /* Layout (changes below 767 px): the text opens beside the photo; on phones,
     under it */
  --fbk-t-direction: row;
  --fbk-t-body-w: var(--fbk-t-text-w);
  /* caption tracks, closed and open (a column beside the photo; a row under it
     on phones) */
  --fbk-t-cols-closed: 0fr;
  --fbk-t-rows-closed: 1fr;
  --fbk-t-cols: var(--fbk-t-cols-closed);
  --fbk-t-rows: var(--fbk-t-rows-closed);
  /* caption state: closed (the active slide's figure opens it) */
  --fbk-splitslide-shown: 0;
  --fbk-splitslide-cover: 1;
}

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

• Replace the photos (decorative: the title names the place, so alt stays empty). Slide height: --fbk-t-height; text width: --fbk-t-text-w (both on the carousel).
• Add or remove slides by duplicating one; keep at least three for a smooth loop.

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-splitslide, .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-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--soft, fbk-section--light, fbk-section--dark.

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

Replaces

• 02 - Slide 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.