Tabs · Background

A full-screen section over a darkened photo. Each tab swaps the background photo (cross-fade) and the title. The tabs are a small vertical list on the left, under a label; the title and a short text sit together on the right, level with the list.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Tabs · Background 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 background video and its pause button only work 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.

Tabs background
  Container
    Tabs
      Label
        Intro   (FBK Intro)
      Tab menu
        Tab · Islands
          Tab · Name
        Tab · Waterfalls
          Tab · Name
        Tab · Roads
          Tab · Name
        Tab · Valleys
          Tab · Name
        Tab · Mountains
          Tab · Name
      Tab content
        Pane · Green islands on still water
          Pane · Photo (background, decorative)
          Panel
            Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
        Pane · Water falling from every cliff
          Pane · Photo (background, decorative)
          Panel
            Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
        Pane · Roads that follow the water
          Pane · Photo (background, decorative)
          Panel
            Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
        Pane · Green valleys between the peaks
          Pane · Photo (background, decorative)
          Panel
            Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
        Pane · Light moving over the peaks
          Pane · Photo (background, decorative)
          Pane · Video (background, decorative)
          Panel
            Panel · Intro   (FBK Intro)
              Video · Pause button
                Toggle · Pause icon
                Toggle · Play icon
    Tabs · sliding line (JS, optional)
    Tabs · background video pause (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, Panel · Intro ×5 (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 Tabs › one tab = a title and its pane, in the same order: duplicate both to add one.
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.

/* «Tabs» · class .fbk-tabsbg */
.fbk-tabsbg {
  /* Dark layer over the photos (60 %: white text keeps 4.5:1 even over a white
     pixel) and length of the fade */
  --fbk-t-shade: color-mix(in srgb, var(--base-ultra-dark) 60%, transparent);
  --fbk-t-fade: 1s;
}

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

• Change the label, the tab names and, in each pane, the photo, title and text. Use photos at least 1600 px wide: they cover the whole screen.
• Each piece has its own class (label, menu, tab, content, pane, photo, panel; the title and text are an FBK Intro): edit its styles in the panel.
• Darkness of the layer over the photos: --fbk-t-shade on the tabs element (.fbk-tabsbg). Keep it at 60 % or more with white text. Length of the cross-fade: --fbk-t-fade.
• Active and hover styles are in the Custom CSS of the class .fbk-tabsbg__tab (Style > CSS): %root%.brx-open is the open tab (full white, underlined) and %root%:hover the tab under the mouse (faint underline); the underline itself is %root%::before. The dark layer is %root%::before of .fbk-tabsbg. The fade is in .fbk-tabsbg__pane (the closing pane stays a moment), .fbk-tabsbg__photo (.brx-open > %root%: the new photo fades in on top) and .fbk-tabsbg__panel (the title and text).
• On phones the tabs stay tabs, in a row above the title.
• The last tab plays a background video: on the block Pane · Video set Style > Background > Video URL (Vimeo or YouTube) and a poster image. The test video is only a placeholder: use a video you have the rights to. The pause button under its text is required (moving content longer than 5 seconds) and needs "Execute code" enabled for the role; it pauses Vimeo videos. With "reduce motion" the video starts paused.

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-tabsbg, .fbk-tabsbg__menu, .fbk-tabsbg__panel, .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

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

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

Replaces

• Tabs background 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.