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In this article
  • Changing your section background
  • Animating your section background
  1. Home
  2. Creating a website
  3. Using the Wix Harmony Editor
  4. Designing your site
  5. Wix Harmony Editor: Customizing Your Section Background

Wix Harmony Editor: Customizing Your Section Background

7 min
In this article
  • Changing your section background
  • Animating your section background
A section’s background sets the tone for your page, guiding focus and shaping how visitors feel as they scroll. Design sections to align your site's brand and fine‑tune every detail — choose a solid color, an image or a video from the library, and apply subtle effects for depth. 
A screenshot of the Wix Harmony Editor Replace Background options
Good to know:
Save time on design by choosing from a wide variety of ready-made, fully responsive sections. When adding a new section, click Designed Sections to start exploring.

Changing your section background

Switch up your section background to instantly change the look and feel of your page. Choose a color, image, or video to match your style and grab attention.

To change your section background:

  1. Go to your editor.
  2. Select the relevant section.
  3. Click Replace Background. 
  4. Choose the background type and customize it to your needs:

Animating your section background

Bring your section to life by adding a background scroll animation. As visitors move up and down your page, the animation creates a dynamic, engaging effect. Try out options like Parallax, 3D, or Zoom, and adjust the settings to match your style.

To animate your section background:

  1. Go to your editor.
  2. Select the relevant section.
  3. Click the Animation icon .
  4. Select an animaion.
  5. (Optional) Click Customize to fine‑tune your animation settings:
    • Preview on scroll: Click the Preview icon  to preview how your animation plays as visitors scroll.
    • Zoom: Drag the slider to adjust how much you want to zoom in or out.
    • Direction: Adjust the animation’s direction using the available options (e.g. clockwise or counterclockwise, in or out, etc).
    • Speed: Drag the slider to make the animation move quicker or slower.
    • Scale: Drag the slider to decide how far the background fades back.
    • Angle: Set the rotation angle of the animation.
    • Stretch: Set the depth and 3D feel of the animation.
    • Animation type: Choose if your animation fades in or fades out.
Notes:
  • The available animations depend on the background type you pick for your section (i.e. color, image or video).
  • The customization settings vary, based on the animation you select.

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