Block Icons With Text

From Posstack.com Documentation

What is the Icons With Text section perfect for?

You have various options to use the Icons With Text section for your Shopify themes:

  • Trust badges: See an example here.
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  • Payment icons: See an example here.
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  • Shipping info: See an example here.
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  • Feature highlights: See an example here.
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  • Testimonial slider: See an example here.
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  • Logo Listing: See an example here or scrolling logo list:
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General Configuration

Icons With Text (previously Features block) helps you create separate content blocks (Each block comes with its heading, description, and icon). You can easily position the icon (left, right, center, or bottom) to pair with the wrapped text.  

From the Shopify theme editor, click on Icons With Text (previously Features block) on the sidebar to view the details of settings.

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If you’re new to our Easy Content Builder, please refer to section Add App Sections and Add ECB Blocks for more details on how to create and edit a section or a block.
Section settings Description
Image Position Set the position of the icon (left, right, center, bottom) to pair with the wrapped text. Applied to desktop view only.
Text Alignment Align all content elements to the left, right, or center.
CSS classes // Enter Custom CSS classes:
  • Add a style to cards: uk-card-primary uk-height-1-1 uk-padding
  • Set the icon width: image-width-100 (replace 100 with the desired value).
  • Convert items into sliders: slider. Show the slider with navigation arrows: slider-nav.
  • Use metaobjects (learn how to create and use metaobjects here Create MetaObjects#How to create a Icons With Text metaobject) as a dynamic source: dynamic-source

// Enable Auto-scrolling:

To enable auto-scrolling (Perfect for Logo slider, scrolling announcement text, Testimonial slider, etc.), add the CSS classes below:

  • scrolling: scrolling from right to left.
  • scrolling-r: scrolling from left to right.
  • duration-10: Specify the animation's duration (in seconds), which should complete one cycle. Replace '10' with your desired value.
  • nowrap: to show text in one row (helpful for the Scrolling Announcement bar)
  • overflow-hidden: the scrolling items will be shown within the block's container.
  • max-width-200: Set item max width (replace 200 with your desired width).
NOTE: If you do not set max-width-value, each image's maximum width is 280px. To set the image bigger than 280px, you must specify both image-width-value and max-width-value (input the value as you wish. Make sure the value of image-width-value is always smaller than that of max-width-value.

INFO: Currently, the metaobjects used as a dynamic source can be used on 3 page types: product page, store page, and blog post page.

NOTE: The Slider, Auto-scrolling, and Metaobject features are only available for the PRO plan. To add multiple classes, enter the classes with space between them.

Mobile Set the number of featured content blocks displayed per row on Mobile devices (Less than 576px).
Tablet Set the number of featured content blocks displayed per row on Tablet devices (576px - 991px).
Desktop Set the number of featured content blocks displayed per row on Desktop devices (992px and up).
Animate On Scroll This feature is only available for the Pro plan. It lets you apply different types of animation to elements within each section as you scroll down the page. Learn more about scrolling animations here.
Item Title Enter the title of each featured content block.
Icon Upload the SVG Icon, Icon Font, or Image
Body Add and style (bold, italic, add link) the text content that appears on each block.

How to create scrolling announcement bar and infinite logo/image carousel.

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NOTE: This feature is only available for the PRO plan.

How to create a scrolling logo list/text bar/image carousel:

  • Step 1: Create a Section Settings to control the global settings of the slider (where you specify this section’s column layout, width, background color, etc.)
  • Step 2: Create an Icons With Text section.
  • Step 3: Open the Icons With Text configuration and insert the title/body text/icon (SVG, Icon font, or Image) depending on which content type you want to display.
  • Step 4: enter these additional classes into the CSS Classes field depending on the scrolling style you want:
Note: You can add multiple classes, type the classes with space between them.
  • scrolling: scrolling from right to left.
  • scrolling-r: scrolling from left to right.
  • duration-10: Specify duration (in second) that the animation should complete one cycle. Replace '10' with your desired value.
  • nowrap: showing text messages in one row (helpful for Scrolling important messages)
  • overflow-hidden: scrolling items will be shown within the block's container.
  • max-width-200: Set the items’ maximum width (replace 200 with your desired width).
NOTE: If you do not set max-width-value, each image's maximum width is 280px by default. To show images bigger than 280px, you must specify both the image-width-value and max-width-value (input the value as you wish. Make sure image-width-valuemax-width-value.)

Below are a few examples of logo/text/image carousels we created for demo purposes:

Scrolling announcement bar (full-width):
Ecb-guide-scrolling-text.jpgScrolling announcement bar (shown within a column container):
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Scrolling logo list:
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Infinite image carousel:
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How to add a Testimonial Carousel

NOTE: This feature is only available for PRO plan.

You can use Icons With Text block to create a Testimonial carousel by entering these additional classes into the Item Style field:

  • slider: to enable the carousel
  • slider-nav: to enable the arrow navigation
Note: You can add multiple classes, just type the classes with space between them.
See the Testimonial carousel demo here.

How to create a Testimonial:

  • Step 1: Create a Section Settings to control the global settings of the carousel (The whole block width, background color, etc.)
  • Step 2: Create an Icons With Text section.
  • Step 3: Open the Icons With Text configuration and insert the title, Icon (SVG, Icon font, or Image), and body text as you wish.

Note: You can define the number of Testimonial items per row from 1 up to 6 items (using the Mobile & Desktop configuration).

Below is an example of a Testimonial carousel that displays 3 items:

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How to add SVG icons to Icons With Text

Upload SVG icons
AUG 2023 - IMPORTANT NOTE: Shopify now allows uploading SVG files. For those who used SVG inline (under the Icons With Text block), which is now deprecated, you are required to re-upload those SVG icons to be compatible with the new change in Shopify. Then update your icons' width by following this guide.
Using metaobjects to load SVG icons as a dynamic source
NOTE: The Metaobject feature is only available for the PRO plan.

Step 1: Enter this CSS class into the CSS Classes field: dynamic-source

This field allows you to add multiple CSS classes, make sure you enter all the CSS classes with space between them.

Step 2: Create and use metaobjects by following this guide.

If you want to create a metaobject template for an entirely custom data structure such as Cooking Recipes, Ingredient Lists, Book metadata, Technical Product specifications, etc, use ECB Media and ECB Rich Text Metaobjects by following this guide.
Set the icon width

To adjust the icon's width, simply enter the extra class into the CSS classes field: image-width-100 (replace 100 with the desired value).

Change the SVG icon color

Here are steps to adjust the SVG icon's color:

  • Step 1: Convert your HEX color to CSS filter property.
Simply use this free tool, enter your HEX color format (e.g. #121212) to convert to CSS filter property. Then, copy the generated CSS filter result.
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  • Step 2: Navigate back to your Theme Editor > click on the App section containing the Icons With Text block where you want to change the SVG icons' color.
  • Step 3: Paste the generated CSS filter property into the Custom CSS field. And hit Save.
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Set the Heading font-weight

You may want to use additional classes to set the weight of the title to bold when needed. Add one of the classes below to the field 'Item Style':

  • uk-title-bold: set the Heading's weight to bold (See the Icons with text demo with bold title)
  • uk-text-bold: set the weight of both the Heading and body text to bold

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Apply a different color to text element

You can also use one of these classes to apply a different color to text elements.

  • uk-text-muted: Add this class to mute text.
  • uk-text-emphasis: Add this class to emphasize text.
  • uk-text-primary: Add this class to emphasize text with the primary color.
  • uk-text-secondary: Add this class to emphasize text with the secondary color.
  • uk-text-success: Add this class to indicate success.
  • uk-text-warning: Add this class to indicate a warning.
  • uk-text-danger: Add this class to indicate danger.
Note: You can add multiple classes, just type the classes with space between them.

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Create layout boxes with different card styles

You can add a specific card style to the Icons with text block by using these additional classes:

uk-card-primary uk-height-1-1 uk-padding

See the card style demo: here

By default, you can apply three styles to cards:

  • uk-card-default: create a visually styled box.
  • uk-card-primary: emphasize the card with a primary color.
  • uk-card-secondary: give the card a secondary background color.

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