Hero · Animated grid

Four photos in two columns and a light panel with the text. When the hero is seen, the first photo comes down and the last comes up, each filling its column; they shrink to make room for the other two, then the photos make room for the panel and the text fades in.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Hero · Animated grid 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 entrance only runs on the front end (it waits for the hero to be seen); here it shows its 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.

Hero · Animated grid
  Brand slot (decorative, empty)
  Container
    Hero
      Photos
        Photos · Column 1
          Photo · guatape
          Photo · coast
        Photos · Column 2
          Photo · waterfall
          Photo · valley
      Panel
        Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Button   (FBK Button)
          Button 2   (FBK Button)
    Entrance when visible (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, Button 2 (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.

/* «Hero» · class .fbk-heroanim */
.fbk-heroanim {
  /* Height of the hero, length of the whole entrance */
  --fbk-t-height: max(34em, 70vh);
  --fbk-t-time: 2s;
}

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 four photos (two per column: in the first column the large one is on top, in the second at the bottom) and their alt text.
• Height of the hero --fbk-t-height and length of the entrance --fbk-t-time (2 s; the steps are fractions of it): on .fbk-heroanim.
• The steps are in the Custom CSS of each class (Style > CSS): the photos making room for the panel in .fbk-heroanim, the rows of each column in .fbk-heroanim__col, the photos coming in in .fbk-heroanim__photo and the panel fading in in .fbk-heroanim__panel (rules with [data-fbk-in]).
• It starts when a third of the hero is on screen (code element Entrance when visible, needs "Execute code"; without it the hero shows its end state). Reduce motion shows the end state at once.
• The buttons' hover is the FBK Button effect Sweep.

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-heroanim, .fbk-heroanim__panel, .fbk-heroanim__photos, .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).

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

• 17 - Animated Hero 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.