Sections

Sections are large containers that act as the building blocks of each page. By default, they span the width of the browser, and you can set the height as you wish.

Adding sections

You can have as many sections as you want on each page. Add an empty section by selecting a section and clicking the + icon. You can also choose from tons of pre-designed sections inside the Add panel.

Three vertically stacked sections, the top a closeup photo of a black bike on black background, the second one a man in a silver helmet and the bottom one a blue gradient

Moving sections

To reorder sections, select a section and from the 3 dots on the floating action bar, choose Move Up or Move Down. You can also reorder sections from the Layers panel.

A photo of a black bicycle next to the sections panel options including Move Up, Move Down, Apply Grid, Flip to Vertical, Duplicate, Don't Display and Delete

Background colors

From the Inspector panel, choose the Design tab to change the background color of your section.

A photo of a white helmet on top of a light purple background next to a color picker from the Editor X design panel choosing the purple

Duplicating sections

You can duplicate a section to use the same design somewhere else on the page. Select the section, then from the floating action bar, click the 3 dots and choose Duplicate.

Two duplicate images of a man in a silver helmet with the Sections panel open and Duplicate selected

Flipping to vertical

You can turn any horizontal section into a vertical section. Select the section, then from the floating action bar, click the 3 dots and choose Flip to Vertical.

A horizontal image of a black bike being selected to Flip to Vertical and a vertical section with the same image next to it

Creating vertical sections

Add a full length vertical section by selecting Page from the breadcrumbs, and clicking the + icon on either side.

Picture of a section, the cursor hovering over the plus sign on the right, displaying add section

Follow these steps in the editor

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Duplicate a section. Select the black section and from the floating action bar, click the 3 dots, then select Duplicate.
Change the background color. Select the duplicated section and from the Inspector panel, choose the Design tab. Make the background color white.
Move a section. Select the white section and from the floating action bar, click the 3 dots, then select Move Down.
Flip a section to vertical. Select the purple section and from the floating action bar, click the 3 dots, then select Flip to Vertical.

Transcript

Let’s take a look at how to work with Sections on Editor X. Every site page is divided into unique strips that can be customized individually. This lets you create multiple design experiences on every page at any breakpoint.

To work with a section, select it. If you can’t because something’s in the way, like here with this image, use these blue breadcrumbs to select it from under other elements—or go to your top bar and open the Layers panel to navigate, and find your section.

To add a new section, click the + icon at the bottom, and use the floating action bar to change the background color.

From the 3 dots, you have more controls like move up, move down, and flip a section to vertical.

We’ll use this vertical section as a sidebar, for a logo and social links. When you add or move elements, they attach directly to the section you place them in and auto-dock to the nearest edges.

For some elements, like social bars, the default layout is horizontal, but from the floating action bar, you can change the design and layout.

You can resize a section by hand by dragging its edges. For more precision, go to the Inspector panel, and resize using your preferred units of measure.

If you want to keep the elements of your sidebar in place as you scroll, select each element, go down to Position on the Inspector panel, and toggle on Fixed Position. Do this for all elements inside the section. Now when you scroll, you can always see your sidebar elements.

All sections can be set to fill the height of any viewport. To do this, select a section, change the units to viewport height, and type 100.

To arrange elements precisely within a section, apply a grid. This creates a 2-dimensional framework to design on.

On Editor X styling cascades down, which means that all design choices made on desktop, trickle down to smaller breakpoints. On tablet, this section is still filling the screen as it’s set to 100% viewport height, and this section is still flipped vertically.

To make better use of the space on smaller screens, you can always redesign. For example, let’s flip this section back to horizontal, hide the social bar, and resize the section.

Because we set this logo to Fixed Position, it stays still as the site scrolls. You can use it as an anchor to help users navigate back to the top of the site. Learn more about anchors in the Inspector panel video in this series.

Again, these styling changes only trickle down to smaller breakpoints. Back on desktop, the design’s still the same.

To display large amounts of content in a digestible way, use Overflow.

First, click the section, go to Overflow Content on the Inspector panel and select Scroll. Choose the scroll direction and decide if you want to display the scrollbar.

Next, let’s paste in a big chunk of text. As you can see, this was way too much text to fit in this size section. So we chose to reveal it through a scroll.

On tablet and mobile, you might not want this much text. To hide the entire section, click Don’t Display.

Now on tablets and all smaller devices this section is hidden. Let’s head back to desktop to check out the overflow effect. When you scroll down, the section freezes, scrolls through all the text, and then continues.

Since all of your sections can be rearranged and styled per breakpoint, your site experience will be unique to each device.

Editor X is an advanced creation platform. To master it, continue watching this series of video tutorials.