Slides & Backgrounds
A slider is a stack of slides. Each slide has its own background, its own set of layers, and its own entrance transition. This page covers building slides and everything about backgrounds.
The Slide tab holds everything that belongs to one slide — its name, an optional whole-slide link, its transition and speed, and the background colour and image.
Managing slides
The Slides rail on the left of the editor lists every slide as a thumbnail.
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Add a slide | Click + at the bottom of the rail |
| Select / edit | Click a thumbnail — the canvas switches to that slide |
| Reorder | Drag a thumbnail up or down |
| Rename | Open the Slide tab → Slide name |
| Duplicate | Slide tab → Duplicate slide |
| Delete | Hover a thumbnail and click the delete icon |
Open the Slide tab in the right panel to edit the currently selected slide.
Backgrounds
Every slide has a background, set in the Slide tab. Choose a background type:
Solid colour
A single flat colour behind the layers.
Gradient
A linear gradient with a from colour, to colour and angle (degrees).
Image
Pick from the Media Library. Control how it sits:
| Option | Values |
|---|---|
| Size | cover, contain, auto, or a custom width% height% |
| Position | center, the nine anchor points, or a custom x% y% |
| Repeat | no-repeat, repeat, repeat-x, repeat-y |
The first slide's image is treated as the page's LCP element and preloaded automatically.
Video
Set a background video in three ways:
- Self-hosted — a direct
.mp4URL from the Media Library. Plays muted, looped and auto-playing; the image (if set) acts as its poster. - YouTube — paste any YouTube URL; it's embedded, muted, looped and sized to cover the slide (no player chrome).
- Vimeo — paste any Vimeo URL; embedded in background mode.
Video backgrounds are deferred — a slide only loads its video when it's about to be shown.
Overlays
An overlay sits on top of the image/video but under the layers — perfect for darkening a busy video so text stays readable.
- Colour overlay — a single colour at an adjustable opacity
- Gradient overlay — a linear gradient (from · to · angle) at an adjustable opacity
Motion effects
Ken Burns
A slow, cinematic zoom/pan on the background image while the slide is shown. Pick a direction (zoom in/out, pan) from the Slide tab. Previews live on the canvas.
Parallax
When enabled (slider Settings tab), layers subtly shift as the visitor moves their mouse, giving the slide depth. Parallax respects the visitor's reduced-motion preference when that option is on.
Slide transitions
The transition controls how a slide animates in when the slider advances to it.
Set a global transition for the whole slider (Settings tab), and optionally override it per slide (Slide tab). Leave a slide's transition empty to use the global default.
Available transitions:
fade · slide-left · slide-right · slide-up · slide-down · zoom · zoom-out · fade-scale · rotate · rotate-ccw · roll · flip (Y) · flip-x · skew · glide-up · glide-down · blur
The transition speed (ms) is also global with an optional per-slide override. Every transition previews live on the canvas as you pick it.
Whole-slide link
Make an entire slide clickable — set a Slide link in the Slide tab (with an optional Open in a new tab).
Falcon Slider is smart about precedence:
- Interactive layers (buttons, layers with their own link, video, audio, HTML) keep their own click behaviour.
- Passive areas — empty space and plain text/image/shape/icon layers — follow the slide link.
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Headline (passive) → slide link │
│ │
│ [ Buy now ] → its own link │
│ │
│ ← empty space anywhere → slide link │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘This mirrors real anchor semantics, so middle-click, right-click → Open in new tab, and the new tab option all work as expected.
Next
- Layers — add text, images, buttons and more on top of the background
- Animations — animate each layer in