Gallery · Masonry

The Bricks Image Gallery as a masonry wall in CSS columns: every photo keeps its shape. The wall stops at a set height and fades out under a Show all photos (N) pill; every photo opens the lightbox.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Gallery · Masonry 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.

Masonry gallery
  Container
    Intro   (FBK Intro)
    Wall
      Gallery

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 Gallery › Content › Items: pick your photos in the media library.
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.

/* «Wall» · class .fbk-masonry */
.fbk-masonry {
  /* Height of the wall before it fades out; how much the other photos dim when
     one is pointed at */
  --fbk-t-height: 44em;
  --fbk-t-dim: 0.55;
}

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

• Photos: select Gallery and pick them in Items from the media library (alt text comes from there). Columns and Spacing are the gallery's own controls (3 and 2 on phones here); leave Image ratio empty so each photo keeps its shape.
• Height of the wall: --fbk-t-height on .fbk-masonry (Wall), 44em (34em on phones). The fade at its foot blends into the section background (--fbk-bg): keep a section background (Light here) or the fade has nothing to blend into. With fewer than 10 photos there is no fade and no pill.
• Pill: classes fbk-gallery--more and fbk-gallery--total on Gallery (it counts every photo). It is the Fancy Bricks control over a photo (Solid · White · Round: the fbk-ui classes on Gallery); its text and colors are --fbk-gallery-more-label, --fbk-gallery-more-bg and --fbk-gallery-more-color. A click on it opens the photo under it in the lightbox, which browses them all.
• Hover: the other photos dim (class fbk-masonry--focus on Wall, amount --fbk-t-dim) and the photo zooms softly (fbk-gallery--zoom on Gallery); remove either class to turn it off.

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 — Gallery, .fbk-masonry, .fbk-masonry__list, .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

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.