How to Create Custom Sticky “Back to Top” Designs with Divi

Every week, we provide you with new and free Divi layout packs which you can use for your next project. For one of the layout packs, we also share a use case that’ll help you take your website to the next level.

This week, as part of our ongoing Divi design initiative, we’re going to show you how to create custom sticky back to top designs with Divi and the Green Energy Layout Pack. This technique will help you improve user experience on your pages while taking advantage of Divi’s built-in options on the design-side of things. We hope this tutorial inspires you to create your own alternative back to top designs and use them on your next website!

Let’s get to it.

Preview

Before we dive into the tutorial, let’s take a quick look at the outcome of this tutorial.

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Example #1

Example #2

Example #3

1. Add Smooth Scroll to Page HTML

Upload Green Energy Landing Page to New Page

The first thing you will need to do is create a new page and upload the Green Energy Layout Pack’s landing page.

Open Page Settings

Open the page settings by clicking on the icon marked in the print screen below:

Add Smooth Scroll to Custom CSS Box

Move on to the advanced tab and add a smooth scroll behavior to the entire page by adding the following CSS code to the Custom CSS box:

html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}

2. Add CSS ID to Hero Section

Open Hero Section

The back to top design will redirect visitors to the hero section. To pull it off, you’ll need to open the hero section settings first.

Add CSS ID

Then, go to the advanced tab and add a CSS ID to the section. Later on this post, we’ll add an anchor link that’ll lead visitors to this section.

• CSS ID: section-1

3. Add New Section to Bottom of Page with “Back to Top” Design

General Steps

Add New Regular Section to Bottom of Page

As you could notice in the preview of this post, we’re going to recreate three different design examples. To streamline the process, we’ll start off with some general steps first and focus on each design example individually later on the post. Add a new regular section to the bottom of your page.

Spacing

Open the section settings and remove all default top and bottom padding.

• Top Padding: 0px
• Bottom Padding: 0px

Add New Row

Column Structure

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

Add Anchor Link

As soon as someone clicks on the entire row, we want them to be redirected to the top of the page. To do that, we’ll add a link that redirects to the hero section of the page.

• Row Link URL: yourwebsite.com/page/#section-1

Row Alignment

We’re also placing the row at the right side of the section container.

• Row Alignment: Right

Fixed Position

Next, we’re making the entire row fixed by going to the advanced tab of the row and updating the following position options:

• Position: Fixed
• Vertical Offset: 30px
• Horizontal Offset: 30px
• Z Index: 99

In addition to making the row fixed, we make sure the row overlaps all page content by increasing the z index.

Recreate Design Example #1

Row Settings

Change Column Structure

Now that we’ve gone through all the general steps, we’re going to recreate the three different examples that you were able to see at the beginning of this post. Let’s start with the first one! Change the row column structure:

Background Color

Continue by opening the row settings and add a white background color.

• Background Color: #ffffff

Sizing

Move on to the design tab and change the sizing settings.

• Use Custom Gutter Width: 1
• Width: 9vw (Desktop), 23vw (Tablet), 35vw (Phone)

Spacing

Add some custom padding values as well.

• Top Padding: 2.5vw (Desktop), 6vw (Tablet), 10vw (Phone)
• Bottom Padding: 2.5vw (Desktop), 6vw (Tablet), 10vw (Phone)
• Left Padding: 1vw (Desktop), 2vw (Tablet), 4vw (Phone)
• Right Padding: 1vw (Desktop), 2vw (Tablet), 4vw (Phone)

Border

Continue by adding ’10px’ to each one of the corners in the border settings.

Box Shadow

And add a box shadow using the following settings:

• Box Shadow Blur Strength: 80px
• Shadow Color: rgba(0,0,0,0.3)

Display

To make sure the columns remain next to each other across all screen sizes, we’re going to add an additional line of CSS code to the main element of the row.

display: flex;

Add Text Module to Column 1

Add Content

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

Text Settings

Move on to the design tab and change the text settings accordingly:

• Text Font: Arial
• Text Font Weight: Bold
• Text Alignment: Right
• Text Color: #000000
• Text Size: 1.1vw (Desktop), 3vw (Tablet), 4.4vw (Phone)
• Text Letter Spacing: -1px
• Text Line Height: 1em

Add Text Module to Column 2

Add Symbol

Move on to the second column and add a Text Module there as well. Add the ‘▲’ symbol to the content box.

Text Settings

Last but not least, go to the design tab and change the text settings.

• Text Font: Open Sans
• Text Alignment: Center
• Text Color: #000000
• Text Size: 3vw (Desktop), 8vw (Tablet), 12vw (Phone)
• Text Line Height: 0.6em

Recreate Design Example #2

Row Settings

Sizing

On to the second example! Open the row settings and change the width of the row.

• Width: 7%

Spacing

Move on to the spacing settings and remove all default top and bottom padding.

• Top Padding: 0px
• Bottom Padding: 0px

Add Text Module to Column

Add Symbol

Continue by adding a Text Module to the row and enter the ‘↑’ symbol.

Text Settings

Go to the design tab and change the text settings.

• Text Font: Open Sans
• Text Alignment: Center
• Text Color: #000000
• Text Size: 56px
• Text Line Height: 1em

Spacing

Next, we’re going to add some custom top and bottom padding.

• Top Padding: 30px
• Bottom Padding: 50px

Border

Move on to the design tab and add ’50vw’ to each one of the corners. Add a border as well using the following settings:

• Border Width: 3px
• Border Color: #000000

Recreate Design Example #3

Row Settings

Sizing

On to the next and last example! Open the row settings and modify the width.

• Width: 4% (Desktop), 10% (Tablet), 15% (Phone)

Spacing

Remove the default top and bottom padding next.

• Top Padding: 0px
• Bottom Padding: 0px

Box Shadow

Add a custom box shadow to the row using the following settings:

• Box Shadow Spread Strength: 4px
• Shadow Color: rgba(0,0,0,0.3)

Add Text Module to Column

Add Symbol

The only module we need for this design example is a Text Module. Add ‘^’ to the content box.

Text Settings

Move on to the design tab and change the text settings accordingly:

• Text Font: Open Sans
• Text Font Weight: Ultra Bold
• Text Alignment: Center
• Text Color: #4359e9
• Text Size: 56px
• Text Line Height: 1em

• Text Shadow Color: #35d764

Spacing

Continue by going to the spacing settings and adding some custom top and bottom padding.

• Top Padding: 30px
• Bottom Padding: 20px

Border

Last but not least, add a border to the Text Module and you’re done!

• Border Width: 3px
• Border Color: #4359e9

Preview

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

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Example #1

Example #2

Example #3

Final Thoughts

In this use case tutorial, we’ve shown you how to create custom back to top designs with Divi. We’ve added smooth scrolling to our pages, assigned a section ID to the hero section and linked a fixed row to the hero section. This tutorial is part of our ongoing Divi design initiative, where we try to put something extra into your design toolbox each and every week. If you have any questions or suggestions, make sure you leave a comment in the comment section below!

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