Add a static block(widget) before the breadcrumbs

Question

I'm using Magento 2.3.0, and I'm trying to add a block before the breadcrumbs, without any padding or margin.

I've created a block from the back-end, then my widget using this block, and then placed the widget on Catalog Category, as I want it only on category pages, and as container I picked After Page Header, but that places me the block/widget right after the breadcrumbs, and it also has the padding from the block class, that I don't want, I would like to have it 100% width.

Answer 1

If default container not working for you, We have always option to add new one. We can add a new container before breadcrumbs in following file

mag2Root/app/design/frontend/{Package}/{theme}/Magento_Theme/layout/default.xml

<referenceContainer name="page.top">
        <container name="before_bread" label="Before Breadcrumbs" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="bread" before="breadcrumbs"/>
</referenceContainer>

Above code will add new container after breadcrumbs. You can select this container for widget container like:

Note: for padding/margin/width, you have a new class bread You can adjust as per requirement!