---
title: "Change a section's type without losing its content"
slug: "/help/playlists/change-section-type"
tags: ["playlists","deal rooms","sections","section type","layout","editor"]
description: "Switch a deal room or playlist section to a different type, such as Gallery to Carousel, and keep its text, images, and content items."
product: "playlists"
sidebar_label: "Change section type"
last_updated: "2026-10-26T17:09:40.452Z"
---

Change a section's type, for example from a Gallery to a Carousel, without deleting it and building it again. The section stays in the same place, and its content moves into the new type.

### **Snapshot 📸**

**Applies to:** Deal rooms and Choose Your Own Adventure playlists

**Location:** Select a section in the editor → **Change section type**

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## **Change a section's type**

1. Open the deal room or playlist in the editor.
2. Select the section.
3. Click **Change section type** in the section's top bar. In a deal room, you can also right-click the section and choose **Change section type**.
4. Pick the new type. The section's current type isn't listed.

### **Available types**

| Where | Types you can switch between |
| --- | --- |
| Deal rooms | **Banner**, **Gallery**, **Carousel**, **Side-by-side**, **Embedded Content**, **Text**, and **Comparison table** |
| Choose Your Own Adventure playlists | **Gallery**, **Text**, and **Comparison table** |

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## **What happens to the content**

**What stays the same:** the section keeps its position and its styling, including background color or gradient, rounded corners, alignment, width, and browser frame.

**What changes:** height and arrangement come from the new type.

**Where content goes:** Walnut moves texts, images, and content items into the matching slots of the new type, in order. Each type holds:

| Type | Texts | Images | Content item lists |
| --- | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| Banner | 2 | 2 | — |
| Gallery / Carousel | 1 | — | 1 |
| Side-by-side | 2 | — | 1 |
| Embedded Content | — | — | 1 |
| Text | 2 | — | — |
| Comparison table | All text cells | — | — |

**Content that doesn't fit is kept, not deleted.** If the new type has no slot for some of the content, Walnut hides it but keeps it. Switch back to the original type and it comes back unchanged.

:::warning Buttons aren't kept
Buttons in a section are removed when you change its type, and switching back doesn't restore them. Empty elements are also dropped.
:::

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## **FAQs**

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**Can I change section types in a Sales Hub, Customer Hub, or Content Hub playlist?**

No. Changing section type is available in deal rooms and Choose Your Own Adventure playlists.

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**I switched to Text and my demos disappeared. Are they gone?**

No. A Text section has no slot for content items, so Walnut hides them. Change the section back to a type with a content item list, such as Gallery, and they reappear.

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## **Related Resources**

[Organize pages in playlists and deal rooms](/help/playlists/page-navigation)

[Add a comparison table to a Deal Room](/help/deal-rooms/comparison-tables)