Hover effect on multicolumn images -Dawn theme

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Main issue: enable a hover effect that shows a product’s second image in the Dawn theme’s Multicolumn section on a subcategory page, similar to the Featured product section on the homepage.

Key context: a store link was shared for reference. “Liquid code” refers to Shopify’s templating language used to customize theme sections.

Current findings: the Multicolumn section supports only one image per column by default. To replicate the “second image on hover” behavior, the Multicolumn section’s Liquid code must be customized.

Constraints: switching to the Featured product section won’t work because it only provides a single column layout, while the requested layout needs four columns in a row.

Status/outcome: no code solution provided yet. The request remains open pending guidance or implementation details for customizing the Multicolumn section to support hover image swapping.

Summarized with AI on January 12. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi

Does anyone know how to change properly code in dawn theme to add hover effect in multicolumn product images ?

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Hi @BigMark78

What affect do you want? And can you share your store link?

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hover effect (second picture view ) I have on home page in featured product section but I have not idea how to change code on my subcategory page in multicolumn .

https://bbigmark.co.uk/pages/plant-pots-for-orchids

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Per column in Multiple column has only one image, if you want the same feature in featured product, it requires to customize multiple column liquid code

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So , it means to keep a hover effect I need use feature product instead multicolumn on subcategory page . But thing is feature product has only one column . I need four column in the row . Could You help me with this please?