Elements · Spotlight carousel

Four photos per view: the active one rises to full height with its button, and its large title and text sit beside it, above the thumbnails. Longer text simply makes the row taller.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Elements · Spotlight carousel 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 text doesn't follow the photos yet (it needs the script). 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.

Spotlight carousel
  Container
    Text + photos
      Texts cell
        Texts
          Text · A morning above the lake
            Text · Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Text · The falls nobody signs
            Text · Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Text · Three quiet days
            Text · Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Text · The coast road, slowly
            Text · Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Text · The empty road
            Text · Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Text · A morning at the reserve
            Text · Intro   (FBK Intro)
      Photos cell
        Photos
          Slide · A morning above the lake
            Slide · Frame
              Slide · Photo
              Slide · Button wrap
                Slide · Button   (FBK Button)
          Slide · The falls nobody signs
            Slide · Frame
              Slide · Photo
              Slide · Button wrap
                Slide · Button   (FBK Button)
          Slide · Three quiet days
            Slide · Frame
              Slide · Photo
              Slide · Button wrap
                Slide · Button   (FBK Button)
          Slide · The coast road, slowly
            Slide · Frame
              Slide · Photo
              Slide · Button wrap
                Slide · Button   (FBK Button)
          Slide · The empty road
            Slide · Frame
              Slide · Photo
              Slide · Button wrap
                Slide · Button   (FBK Button)
          Slide · A morning at the reserve
            Slide · Frame
              Slide · Photo
              Slide · Button wrap
                Slide · Button   (FBK Button)
    Sync photos and texts (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 Text · Intro ×6 (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 Slide · Button ×6 (FBK Button) › Properties: Text, Link, Tone, Shadow on hover · Icon group: Icon, Icon position · Style group: Style, Size, Width, Hover effect.
4. Select Texts, Photos › Content › Options (loop or fade, autoplay, items per page, gap), Arrows and Pagination; one slide = one child, duplicate it to add more.
5. 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.

/* «Text + photos» · class .fbk-spot */
.fbk-spot {
  /* Height of the thumbnails; the active photo is as tall as the text and the
     thumbnails together */
  --fbk-t-thumb-h: clamp(13em, 18vw, 16em);
  /* Least height of the text row (so the active photo is never short) */
  --fbk-t-text-min: 14em;
  /* Layout (changes on tablet and below 767 px): slides per view, and where
     each slider sits */
  --fbk-t-per: 4;
  --fbk-t-rows: minmax(var(--fbk-t-text-min), auto) var(--fbk-t-thumb-h);
  --fbk-t-photos-row: 1 / span 2;
  --fbk-t-text-row: 1;
  /* Where the text starts, lined up with the thumbnails */
  --fbk-t-text-pad: 0px;
}

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

• Replace the photos (decorative: the title names the story, so alt stays empty) and keep one text per photo, in the same order (the script warns in the console if they differ).
• Thumbnail height: --fbk-t-thumb-h; least text height: --fbk-t-text-min (both on the grid).
• The texts follow the photos only with "Execute code" enabled; without it, both still work.
• Each piece has its own class; the states set by the slider are in Style > CSS of that piece: the photo growing to full height in .fbk-spot__photo (.splide__slide.is-active %root%), the button showing in .fbk-spot__action (.splide__slide.is-active %root%) and the leaving photo fading in .fbk-spot__frame (.splide__slide.is-prev > %root%).

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-spot, .fbk-intro.
• 767px and below — .fbk-spot, .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--light, fbk-section--soft, fbk-section--dark.

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

Replaces

• 10 - Carousel 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.