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Pinned Scroll Story — Free Website Section Template
Scroll effects · v1.0.0 · Updated 2026-10-22 · Responsive · GSAP animation · HTML, React & Vue
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About this section
Pinned Scroll Story — Free Scrollytelling Section

Pinned Scroll Story walks visitors through a sequence, one step at a time. On larger screens the steps scroll up on the left while an image stage on the right stays pinned and crossfades to the picture for the step in view; the active step is highlighted and the others fade back.
Scrollytelling made editable
Steps are a list of 2 to 6, each with an image, a label such as "01 · Plan", a title and text. Change the order and the story follows, because every step carries its own image.
Works everywhere
On phones, without JavaScript and while editing, each step simply shows its image above its text, so the content is complete in every situation. The pinned layout switches on from 900px with GSAP ScrollTrigger and respects reduced motion.
Pairs well
Use it after a hero for a product tour, or follow it with a Stacking Cards section for features. Export HTML, a ZIP, React or Vue.
Getting the most from it
Treat each scene as one sentence of your story: a clear heading, two or three lines of text and an image that shows the point. Three to five scenes keep the pinned section short enough to enjoy rather than endure. Order the scenes the way you would explain the idea to a friend, from the problem to the result, and end on a scene that leads naturally into your call to action. Use images with a similar crop so the transitions stay smooth.
Why use it
Why Use the Pinned Scroll Story
How it’s different
How It’s Different From Other Free Section Templates
Step by step
How to Use
- 1Edit the contentFill in the heading and steps in the panel. Wrap words in *asterisks* to colour them.
- 2Add your imagesUpload your own images (resized in your browser and kept on your device) or paste a hosted image URL.
- 3Match your brandPick a colour preset or exact colours, choose heading and body fonts from Google Fonts or your own uploaded font, set the corner radius and width, or apply your brand kit.
- 4Animate and previewThis section is driven by scrolling: scroll inside the preview to see the effect, press Refresh to restart it from the top, and check the section on desktop, tablet and mobile.
- 5Save and exportSave it to My designs, then export a single HTML file, a ZIP with your images, a React or Vue component, or fork it into My Code.
Real-world uses
Common Use Cases
In real websites
Website Templates That Use the Pinned Scroll Story Section
The Pinned Scroll Story section is part of 1 complete website template in the free Website Builder, so you can see it in a full page before you use it on its own: Wedding Website. Open any of them in the builder to edit the whole page, or keep customising this section by itself.
Got questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Also called scrollytelling: content that changes as you scroll. Here, text steps scroll past while a pinned image beside them switches to match the step in view.
Three to five. Each step takes most of a screen height on desktop, so more than six makes the section long; split longer stories into two sections.
Below 900px each step shows its own image above its title and text, in a simple vertical sequence with no pinning.
The export uses images, but you can replace an image with a muted, looping video in the exported HTML; the crossfade works on any element in the stage.
It saves an editable copy of your Pinned Scroll Story in My Code, the UI Snippets code editor: the section markup goes in the HTML panel, its CSS (theme variables, base styles and layout) in the CSS panel, and the GSAP library is added as a CDN link, so you can keep refining the code and save your own versions.
Yes. Every section is free for personal and commercial work, with no account, no watermark and no attribution: export it on its own as HTML, React, Vue or Next.js from its page, or use it in a website you build and export in the Website Builder.