Creating Unique Column FAQ Designs with Divi

Every website that regularly communicates with customers can benefit from a FAQ section. When creating your website with Divi, there are many ways to approach designing your FAQ section. Now, in this post, we’ll be creating a fun FAQ section that focuses on combining the column and module container to create a beautiful design. You won’t even need a separate plugin to create these FAQs—just Divi. You’ll be able to download the JSON file for free as well!

Let’s get to it.

Preview

Before we dive into the tutorial, let’s take a quick look at the outcome across different screen sizes.

Desktop

Mobile

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Let’s Start Recreating

Add New Section

Background

Start by adding a new regular section to the page you’re working on. Before adding a row, adjust the section background.

• Background: Gradient
• Color One: Dark Aqua #50aebf
• Color Two: Light Aqua #6bf2ff
• Direction: 180deg
• Start Position: 21%

Spacing

Modify the section’s padding values too.

• Top Padding:
  • Desktop: 4vw
  • Tablet: 15vw
  • Phone: 24vw
• Bottom Padding: 2vw

Add New Row

Column Structure

Continue by adding a new row to the section using the following column structure:

Column Settings

Spacing

Open the column 1 settings and add some left and right padding.

• Left and Right Padding:
  • Desktop: 1vw
  • Tablet + Phone: 3vw

Add Text Module

Add Content

Time to start adding modules! Add a new text module with some H2 and paragraph content of your choice.

Text

Move on to the design tab and style the paragraph text.

• Text Font: Actor
• Text Color: Off White ##f6f6f6
• Text Size:
  • Desktop + Tablet: 1.5vw
  • Phone: 3.8vw
• Text Letter Spacing: 1px
• Text Alignment: Center

Heading Text

Then, style the heading text.

• Heading Text Level: H2
• H2 Font: Verdana
• H2 Font Weight: Semi-Bold
• H2 Font Color: Off White: #f6f6f6
• H2 Font Size:
  • Desktop: 3vw
  • Tablet: 5vw
  • Phone: 6vw
• H2 Letter Spacing: 7px
• H2 Line Height:
  • Desktop: 1.8em
  • Tablet: 1.6em
  • Phone:1.5 em

Sizing

Furthermore, adjust the sizing.

• Width: 100%

Spacing

Finally, adjust the spacing.

• Top Margin:
  • Desktop + Tablet: 1.5vw
• Bottom Margin:
  • Phone: -5vw
• Bottom Padding: 0vw
• Left + Right Padding: 7vw

Add Divider Module

Line

Below the text, add a divider module and make it yellow.

• Line Color: Yellow #ffe100

Sizing

Then, adjust the weight and width.

• Divider Weight: 4px
• Width: 12%
• Module Alignment: Center

Spacing

Finally, adjust the spacing.

• Top Margin:
  • Desktop + Tablet: -1vw
  • Phone: 10vw

Add New Row

Column Structure

Continue by adding a new using the following column structure:

Sizing

Before anything else, adjust the sizing.

• Gutter Width: 1
• Width: 100%
• Max Width: 100%

Spacing

Then adjust the spacing.

• Top Margin: 3vw
• Bottom Margin: 11vw
• Left and Right Margin: auto
• Top Padding: 0vw
• Bottom Padding: 11vw
• Left and Right Padding: 5vw

Column 1 Settings

Background on Hover

Before adding the other columns, style the column 1 background as follows:

• Hover Background: Gradient
• Color One: Yellow #ffe100
• Color Two: Transparent
• Gradient Type: Radial
• Radial Direction: Top Left
• Start and End Position: 19%

Spacing

Add some spacing values to the column next.

• Bottom Padding:
  • Desktop + Tablet: 0vw
  • Phone: 4vw
• Left and Right Padding:
  • Desktop: 1vw
  • Tablet + Phone: 3vw

Border

Add some rounded corners to the column as well.

• Rounded Corners: 1vw all four corners

Transform

Finally, apply a custom transform translate value to the column.

• Transform Translate: 4vw y-axis (Desktop), 0vw (Hover, Tablet & Phone)

Duplicate Column 1 Four Times

Now, duplicate the first column four times.

Column 2 Settings

Transform

Then, adjust the transformation values. First, column 2.

• Transform Translate: 2vw y-axis (Desktop), 0vw (Hover, Tablet & Phone)

Column 3 Settings

Transform

Then, reset the transformation value in column 3.

• Transform Translate: Reset

Column 4 Settings

Transform

Also, adjust the transform value in column 4.

• Transform Translate: 2vw y-axis (Desktop), 0vw (Hover, Tablet & Phone)

Column 5 Settings

Transform

Finally, review the transform values in column 5.

• Transform Translate: 4vw y-axis (Desktop), 0vw (Hover, Tablet & Phone)

Add Toggle Module to Column 1

Add Content

Time to start adding modules! Add a toggle module to the first column with some content of your choice.

• Title
• Body

State

Then, select ‘Close’ as the module’s state.

• State: Closed

Background

And add a transparent image of a question mark as the background.

• Background: Image
• Background Image Blend: Soft Light

Icon

In the design tab, style the icon.

• Icon Color: Yellow #ffe100
• Icon Size:
  • Desktop: 34px
  • Tablet + Phone: 20px

Toggle

Then, style the toggle backgrounds for static and hover.

• Open Toggle Background Color: Teal #0092af
• Closed Toggle Background Color: Off White: #f7f7f7
  • Hover: Teal #0092af

Title Text

Continue by styling the title text.

• Open Title Text Color: Off White: #f7f7f7
• Title Text Color: Very Dark Grey #3a3a3a
  • Hover: Off White: #f7f7f7
• Title Heading Level: H5
• H5 Font: Actor
• H5 Alignment: Left
• H5 Text Size:
  • Desktop: 1.5 vw
  • Tablet: 3 vw
  • Phone: 4.5 vw

Closed Title Text

Style the closed text as well.

• Closed Title Text Color: Very Dark Grey #3a3a3a
• Closed Title Font: Actor
• Alignment: Left
• Closed Text Size:
  • Desktop: 1.5vw
  • Tablet: 3vw
  • Phone: 4.5vw

Body Text

Don’t forget the body text.

• Body Font: Actor
• Body Text Alignment: Left
• Body Text Color: Off White: #f7f7f7
• Body Text Size:
  • Desktop: 0.9vw
  • Tablet: 2vw
  • Phone: 3vw
• Body Line Height: 1.8em

Spacing

After the text styling, add some spacing values.

• Top Margin:
  • Desktop + Tablet: 1vw
• Top + Bottom Padding:
  • Desktop: 2vw
  • Tablet: 3vw
  • Phone: 5vw
• Left Padding:
  • Desktop: 2vw
  • Tablet: 4vw
  • Phone: 5vw
• Right Padding:
  • Desktop: 2vw
  • Tablet: 3vw
  • Phone: 4vw

Border

Add some rounded corners and remove the default 1px border.

• Rounded Corners: 1vw all four corners
• Border: 0px

Box Shadow

Finally, add an inner box shadow.

• Box Shadow: 6th Option
• Box Shadow Blur Strength:
  • Desktop + Tablet: 18px
  • Phone: 9px
• Box Shadow Spread Strength: -4px
• Shadow Color: rgba(0,0,0,0.21)

Duplicate Toggle Module 4 Times

Duplicate the styled toggle module four times and drag the new ones to the empty columns.

Edit Content

Edit the questions and answers in the duplicated toggle modules and you’re done!

Preview

Now that we’ve gone through all the steps, let’s take a final look at the outcome across different screen sizes.

Desktop

Mobile

Conclusion

In this post, we’ve shown you how to create a unique column FAQ design. We added some hover options to give the design an interesting yellow corner effect. We hope this design will inspire you to create interesting FAQ designs as part of your Divi projects. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below!