List: hover preview
A list of projects or services where one floating photo follows the pointer and wipes to each row's picture. On a phone the photo rides down the list and shows the row at the middle of the screen as you scroll. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it each row keeps its own small picture.
Live preview
With a mouse the photo follows the pointer. On a phone it follows the row at the middle of the screen as you scroll.
Before you copy
This is a showpiece. It pastes into Etch like any other item and it is complete without anything else, but its motion comes from the EtchPress runtime: a small script that loads only on the pages that use a showpiece.
Etch for WordPress: download the EtchPress Runtime plugin from Downloads in your account, install it and activate it. Paste your licence key under Settings, EtchPress Runtime, and it updates from the Plugins screen like any other plugin.
Etch Studio: download the EtchPress runtime files from Downloads in your account, unzip them and drop them into your project's Asset Manager, then paste the item. Studio ships the files it needs with your site.
What you can build with it
Selected work on a studio or contractor's home page. A services index where every service has a photo. A list of case studies or press. A menu of locations or team members.
Props
rows (repeater: number, title, meta, image, alt, href)
States shown
Rest; pointer over a row (the photo follows, tilts with speed, wipes to that row's picture, the other rows step back); keyboard focus (the photo parks at the focused row's end); touch (the photo rides the picture column and follows the scroll). Reduced motion and no runtime: a list with a small picture on every row.
How to change it
Content and options are 1 props in the component's settings panel. Colour, type, spacing and radius follow your Automatic.css settings, so a change to the site's palette or scale changes this too. For anything else, edit the classes in the Style Manager, starting with .preview-list. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.
ACSS tokens used
h2, text-s, space-s, radius, heading-color, text-dark-muted, border-color-dark, focus tokens; –ep-font-mono with a fallback.
ACSS requirements
ACSS 4 defaults. Needs the EtchPress Runtime, 0.4.0 or later: the EtchPress Runtime plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files dropped into the project's Asset Manager in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.
Version history
Version 1.0.2, October 2, 2026: The floating picture stays inside the list. Sizes now follow the width of the place it sits in, not the screen, so it fits a narrow column on a wide screen. Version 1.0.1, October 1, 2026: Etch Studio: the component names the runtime files it needs, so Studio ships them with the site. Needs the EtchPress Runtime 0.4.0 or later. Version 1.0.0, October 1, 2026: First release, with the EtchPress Runtime 0.2.1.
Tested with
Etch 1.6.7 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.0.2.
Needs the EtchPress runtime
The plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.
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