A Simple Solution For A Silly Problem!
Align the Divi Blurb Icon or Image to the Top Left
The Divi Theme and Builder from Elegant Themes is awesome, but it has some weird quirks that are actually pretty bad. For example, when the blurb module icon or image is left aligned it looks awful on mobile, and yet this is the most popular module of them all! This means that blurb modules all over the web are causing problems. Be sure to look at #3 for a clever way to fix this on mobile!
Before we get to that, I’ll show you how to align the Divi Blurb icon or image to the left. The funny thing is, there are several scenarios here. One solution only works for the icon, and another similar solution for the image. If you find this website helpful, please leave us comments and subscribe for more!
#1. Move Divi Blurb Icon To The Top Left
This is the easiest one on the list. You’re going to do a facepalm as soon as you see it. Ready? Add “text-align: left;” to the Blurb module Advanced tab custom CSS box for “Blurb Content.”
Before = Top Center (default)
This icon is left aligned on desktop, but top on mobile!
After = Top Left
This icon is left aligned on desktop, but top on mobile!
#2. Move Divi Blurb Image To The Top Left
Like I said, the icon and image each are differnt, so we need to do something similar but with a few key differences. To align the Divi Blurb image to the top left, go to the Blurb Module Advanced tab and find the “Blurb Image” box. Add the code “display: block; width: 96px;”
Before = Top Center (default)
This image is top-aligned, but we want it on the top left!
After = Top Left
This image is left aligned on desktop, but top on mobile!
#3. Move A Left Aligned Blurb Image/Icon To The Top Only On Mobile
The last one here you could call a bonus, but it’s the most need solution out of all three of them. When using a Blurb module with an icon or image on the left, the mobile version gets really awkward with spacing. The title and text get really narrow, and this looks very unprofessional.
To remedy this, some would say to duplicate the module and adjust the visibility settings, but that is not recommended at all. The easier solution is to use the code below to switch the icon or image to the top on mobile, but keep the desktop version the same. This example shows you how to move a left aligned Blurb image or icon to the top only on mobile.
Icon Example
This icon is left aligned on desktop, but top left on mobile!
Image Example
This image is left aligned on desktop, but top left on mobile!
To solve this, simple open the Blurb module settings and open the Custom CSS toggle in the Advanced tab. Now go to BOTH the Blurb Image and Blurb Content boxes and toggle open the three responsive tabs for Desktop, Tablet, and Phone. Write or copy the CSS below in each of those, and you are done!
display: block;
Thank´s Nelson !!!!!.
Have a nice day.
Guillermo
Hey Guillermo,
You are welcome! Glad you found this helpful! 🙂
Thank you Nelson, I’m new to your channel and FB blog (pending acceptance) and I can’t even begin to tell you how many time you saved my sanity when Divi was driving me nuts!
Thank you Pedro,
I’m so glad I could save your sanity! 🙂 That makes it all worthwhile knowing my content is helping people like you with Divi!
Hello Nelson
I am Sonam from Bhutan
This is what I would like to achieve with the blurb..
Hi Sonam,
I’m not sure what you are asking. Do you mean having the category highlighted?
Hi Nelson I am sending another one
I want the image to appear like in the first image but the text should appear like in 2nd image. Thank you please help me with that
Hi Sonam,
I’m not sur exactly what you mean. Could you explain it?
Hi Nelson! Thanks for all of your posts, they’ve helped almost every time I was stuck! For some reason, I can’t get this one to work. I’m trying for #3 (left aligned image on desktop, but top-aligned on mobile) and it doesn’t seem to be working. What the code snippet and css class did do was to make the blurb image appear, still to the left on mobile, but slightly overlapping the blurb text. (see attached screenshot, this is the ‘after’ image’). I tried increasing the top padding for the blurb module on mobile (in case the image ‘needed room’),… Read more »
Hi Shannon,
I see that Divi/WordPress has been updated and so I needed to update the post. So I actually just rewrote #3 and now you can do it totally within the builder without the snippet. Take a look!
Got it! That worked! I also found (by accident) that if you follow step #3, setting both blurb image and blurb content to display: block; AND you set image/icon position to ‘top’ on mobile (instead of ‘left’) that it will center the image.
I ended up just putting it back to ‘left’, though, because it looked better with the left text alignment.
Thanks so much!
You’re welcome! Glad you got it!