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Divi Visual Editor: Adding a hover border to modules

Written by Dan Mossop

The recent release of the latest version of the Divi Theme brings us the visual editor, a powerful new way to edit webpages directly. One of my favorite features of the visual editor is that it allows you, via a border which appears on hover, to see exactly where your sections and rows start / finish. This makes it great for figuring out things like where that stray padding is coming from.

One thing, I thought would be useful is to have the same type of hover border on modules within the visual editor. That way, you can easily tell what is part of the module, and what isn't.

I've come up with the following CSS for doing so:

It simply adds a border to top level modules upon hover. I've done it using the :after element so that the module's position on the page isn't affected at all – where you see the bordered module in the visual editor is where it'll appear on the page.

If you don't want to manually add the CSS to Divi, I've added it as a one-click option in Divi Booster, as of version 2.3.2. You'll find it in the Divi Booster settings page under "Divi Builder > Visual Builder":

Thanks to Glen for pointing out the need to set the z-index to ensure the module text remains editable.

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About Dan Mossop

Dan is a Scottish-born web developer, now living in Brisbane with his wife and son. He has been sharing tips and helping users with Divi since 2014. He created Divi Booster, the first Divi plugin, and continues to develop it along with 20+ other Divi plugins. Dan has a PhD in Computer Science, a background in web security and likes a lot of stuff, 

5 Comments

  1. Deepika Sharma on July 24, 2017 at 8:58 am

    Wove, great feature, i take it as bug in Divi builder, hats up

    Reply
  2. Rostane on January 1, 2017 at 11:15 am

    This is a great feature, so useful and fix a lot of frustration, thanks !

    Reply
  3. Glen on September 21, 2016 at 2:17 am

    Thanks Dan, a good feature to include in Divi Booster. I must admit some frustration when creating complex pages in Visual Builder. Understanding text module boundary's was an issue.

    Reply
  4. Juan Lanteri on September 14, 2016 at 7:22 am

    This is a GREAT idea.

    I´m mad that I can´t make it work, but it´s great :)

    The code goes in Divi "options" no? in "custom css"?

    Reply
    • Juan Lanteri on September 14, 2016 at 7:33 am

      Ok, It´s done.

      I was not refreshing the cache :P

      Man, this is awesome, thanks!

      Reply

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