Mercantile Supply · Merchant guide

Content builder

A free-form band you compose from blocks: text at any size, images, buttons, columns, dividers and video. It starts as an image beside a statement and a button. For long copy, add a Rich text block; for a video, a Video block. Use it when no other section has the shape you want.

Where to find it

In the theme editor, Add section › Content builder. The theme starts with it on: Home page.

Settings

Setting Choices Shows when What it does
Density Follow theme · Compact · Normal · Spacious Always Space, columns and image shape in this section. Follow theme uses Density in Theme settings › Layout.
Text size Default · Smaller · Standard · Larger Always Makes this section's text and title smaller or larger than its Density sets.
Color scheme Always

Who sees this

Setting Choices Shows when What it does
Show this section to Everyone · Guests and retail · Trade customers Always Trade customers are signed-in company buyers. The theme editor always shows the section. Learn more

Layout

Setting Choices Shows when What it does
Content alignment Left · Center · Right Always The default for every block. A block or column can set its own.
Content width Narrow · Medium · Full width Always
Section width Full width · Contained Always Contained draws the color scheme as a panel inside the page margins.
Color around the panel On · Off Section width is Contained Off shows the page background around the panel. Color scheme colors the panel itself.
Around the panel Section width is Contained and Color around the panel is on

Which settings reveal which:

flowchart LR
  section_width["Section width"]
  panel_ground["Color around the panel"]
  ground_color_scheme["Around the panel"]
  section_width -- "is Contained" --> panel_ground
  section_width -- "is Contained  + more " --> ground_color_scheme
  panel_ground -- "on  + more " --> ground_color_scheme

Blocks

It also takes these blocks: Text, Image, Buttons, Columns, Divider, Video, Rich text.