Nested containers in Elementor

Hi, I’m feeling really frustrated trying to use Elementor’s containers—especially with how unintuitive they feel. I’ve spent several days watching every official Elementor tutorial on containers and Flexbox, but I still can’t get things to work the way they’re supposed to.

Here’s what I’m trying to achieve:
I want a single container with a layout where there’s a heading at the top (like “Frequently Asked Questions”), and directly below that, two elements side-by-side that share the same background. From what I understand, this involves using nested containers, but it’s just not working as expected. (please see screenshots).

I’ve included a video showing what I’ve tried so far. No matter what I do, Elementor either turns every element into a column or every element into a row—I can’t seem to mix them within a single parent container.

Here’s what I’ve been doing:
I create a parent container and set it to Flexbox.
I choose the “column” structure so I can have the section title at the top.
Then I add two inner containers underneath for the side-by-side content.
The idea is to have one vertical container (for the title) and then a horizontal layout below (two containers next to each other), all within the same parent so they can share the same background color.

But when I try to set the inner containers to “row,” nothing happens. If I switch the parent container to “row,” all the containers become horizontal and I lose the top-to-bottom layout I need.

The only workaround I’ve found is to use separate containers for the top and bottom sections, but then they don’t share a background, which defeats the purpose.

Could you please create a video tutorial that shows exactly how to structure this layout using containers and Flexbox in Elementor?
Also, I sometimes need the bottom two containers to be in a 2/3 + 1/3 width ratio instead of 1/2 + 1/2. I haven’t been able to figure that part out either—would you mind including that in the tutorial too?

Thanks so much in advance!
Here is the video: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cgghx2twi7mcny84le3uj/Screen-Recording-2025-04-17-at-12.26.58-PM.mov?rlkey=okzepf1bh54su6sds9ab1n517&st=76z87kg1&dl=0

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Hello,

I left the “Test page” in Dashboard -> Pages so you can see how I have configured that – https://prnt.sc/AU3uD3pLKx6W

Let me know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards

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