topic Re: ArcGIS Experience builder section horizontal scroll option in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

ArcGIS Experience builder section horizontal scroll option

MCTilma — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:06:48 GMT

I seem to encounter the lack of a specific functionallity in the settings of the 'Section' widget, and i wonder if there is a solution.

The idea of the experience builder is a form of datahub, where different information products are shown within different categories of our organisation. Therefore, i use the widgets 'Section' and 'Views navigation'. The views navigation are linked to the sections and are well configured. In the section i use a fixed panel as a representative of an information product. Within this fixed panels, are several other components (image, text etc.). This configured fixed panel is duplicated for the amount of information products for that category. And now it comes... with all the items in de section, im at the end of the section and want to add more items vertically, as if it is a scroll page. But this seems not possible. There are options for the height, however it does not extend the Section to add more items. It is only possible to add another widget, but that's not what i want, i want to extend my current widget vertically.

I can think of some fixes, but then i have to rebuild the entire experience. So my question is: is there an option within the 'Section' widget to make it somehow scrollable and to add more items?

Regards, Matthijs

Re: ArcGIS Experience builder section horizontal scroll option

Shen_Zhang — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:05:48 GMT

Hi @MCTilma, have you tried using Column widgets? They provide a vertical scrolling experience for the content inside them. You can place a Column widget within a view of a Section widget, then add several Fixed Panel widgets to the Column. It will appear like this in the TOC:

In this way, you can have a vertical scrolling experience while still keeping the flexibility of fixed layouts. You can also create more advanced interactions by experimenting with different nesting combinations of Fixed Panels, Rows, and Columns.

Re: ArcGIS Experience builder section horizontal scroll option

MCTilma — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:16:59 GMT

Dear Shen Zhang,

Thank you for looking into this. The column is indeed capable of extending the lenght of the page by adding it under the existing column. And it is indeed smart to place a fixed panel to the column, otherwise you will be restricted to the width of the column.

It is a good workaround, however it is still neccessary to add multiple columns under each other and adjust all the gap and spacing between the columns. It is not possible to add length to the column, but only to stack column after column, which can be a restriction.

But thank you for the answer and good workaround.

Regards,
Matthijs