Animated Text Block Backgrounds

What You'll Create

Text blocks with decorative background shapes that animate on hover. The background can change color, transform into circles, or shift position when visitors interact with the text, creating playful, engaging content areas.

The Problem It Solves

Squarespace text blocks have no built-in background styling. When you want colored backgrounds behind text that respond to hover with creative animations - morphing shapes, color changes, or movement - you need CSS pseudo-elements to create these interactive backgrounds.

Perfect For

Feature callouts, Interactive about sections, Service descriptions, Team bios, Portfolio introductions.

What Makes This Different

CSS pseudo-elements create colored backgrounds behind text blocks that respond to hover states. The technique enables dramatic transformations - rectangles morphing into circles, colors shifting, backgrounds scaling or moving. Combined with text styling changes on hover, this creates memorable interactive moments.

Details

• Section Type: Fluid & Classic

• Code Type: CSS

• Prerequisites: Section selector with text blocks

• Toolkit Title: Text Block Backgrounds

Learn This Technique

This is one of 150+ code techniques taught inside Standout Squarespace, where you get:

• The complete, copy-paste code

• Video walkthrough explaining how it works

• The principles behind the technique so you can customize it

• Access to our private community for support