Fixed Divi Header That Shrinks
Another Header tutorial To Be Used With Previous Ones
We are excited that our Divi header series is so popular, and its even more exciting hearing feedback from you about what you want to see next. One of the requested tutorials which will along with some of our previous ones is to have a Divi Theme Builder header menu that shrinks and stays fixed when you scroll. This one is going to go along perfectly with our previous tutorial, which was How To Change The Color Of A Fixed Divi Header Menu When Scrolling. This Divi tutorial will show you how to change shrink parts of the Divi header when scrolling!
#1. Create Your Fixed Divi Theme Builder Header Menu
From your WordPress Dashboard, go to Divi>Theme Builder. Create a new template, and assign where needed. In our example, we chose to assign the menu to a specific page.
Click on “Add Custom Header” and in the popup choose “Build Custom Header.”
In the Divi Theme Builder template, create a section and add a row with any layout you want. In our example, we used a logo, menu, and button.
The most important part here is adding the CSS class to the section. Go to the section settings to the Advanced tab and add the class “pa-header” as shown in the image below.
Be sure to set the header section position!
Go to the section settings to the Advanced tab and go down to the Position toggle. Set the position to Fixed.
#2. Add Some Custom jQuery Code
This Code Will Add A New CSS Class On Scroll
Now for the fun part! You don’t have to worry about adding code because I’ll show you exactly where to add this and you will do just fine copying it to your website!
From your WordPress dashboard, go to Divi>Theme Options. Then look for the Integrations tab at the top. Once you are there, you will see a code input area that says “Add code to the < head > of your blog.” That’s the input areas where you need to paste the code snippet below.
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery(window).scroll(function() {
var scroll = jQuery(window).scrollTop();
if (scroll >= 100) {
jQuery(".pa-header").addClass("pa-fixed-header");
}
else{
jQuery(".pa-header").removeClass("pa-fixed-header");
}
});
});
</script>Here’s how that will look!
#3. Add Some Custom CSS Code
This Code Will Shrink the Divi Menu Items When Scrolling
In step #2, we added some jQuery code that activates a new CSS class in the header section when the page scrolls. Now, we need to tell that class what to do. In our other tutorial, we were changing the background color, but in this one, we are going to change the top and bottom spacing and maybe a few other items.
Change The Spacing
From your WordPress dashboard, go to Divi>Theme Options. Scroll down to the Custom CSS box and paste the following code snippet there.
/*set the transition for the spacing shrinking action*/
.pa-header .et_pb_row {
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
/*set the background color of the fixed header when scrolling*/
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_row {
padding: 0px 0;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}Change The Logo Size
You may also want to change the size of the logo when your menu shrinks. To do this, we need to add the following code snippet to our previous one.
/*set the transition for the logo shrinking action*/
.pa-header .et_pb_menu__logo img {
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
/*change the logo size when the header shrinks*/
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_menu__logo img {
max-width: 80%;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}Change The Menu Text Size
You may also want to change the size of menu text when your menu shrinks. To do that, just add the following code snippet to our previous one.
/*set the transition for the font size shrinking action*/
.pa-header .et_pb_menu ul li a {
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
/*change the menu font size when the header shrinks*/
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_menu ul li a {
font-size: 16px!important;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
Hi Nelson, I followed step by step and couldn’t get it to work. I wasn’t able to see the effect on my site. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Thanks again.
Hi Nelson, I noticed why it wasn’t working because I had padding set on the row when I removed it it started working. The issue is when I remove the padding from the row my menu looks ugly, becomes to big. What can I do to fix that issue? Thanks
Hi Shawn, I can’t really help without a link or knowing exactly what you have tried. Can you tell me what steps you took and show me the site?
So, I followed step-by-step, and while my text and logo will change, I can’t get my actual header background (which is an image) to also shrink. Do you have a tutorial on how to do that?
Hi Catie,
To target the section, just remove the .et_pb_row from that snippet and use that. Then do whatever you want, such as reduce the spacing. Does that makes sense?
Hi Nelson! Thank you for your work! Content on you blog is amazing! Also I have one question. I followed all steps above and it worked perfectly, but there is one little thing I’m not able to solve. While on tablet and mobile view, menu changes to the hamburger icon. Problem is, that shrinking and changing color doesn’t apply on that icon and it stay as I customize it in the theme builder. Can you help me with that? 🙂
Hi Sehij,
I’m not exactly sure what you mean, but I am guessing you want to change the size of the hamburger icon on tablet and phone when you scroll?
Yes, I want to change size and color of hamburger icon.
This is great! I tried the one from Elegant Themes that took me too long and didn’t work. This is SUPER simple. Thank you!
Glad to hear this one is working! I do try to make it as simple as possible! 🙂
Hi Nelson, I followed step by step and it work perfectly.
How can I do the same thing to the search modul inside the header next to the menu?
What CSS code must I insert to shrink the search box?
Hi Bongi,
It will require finding the CSS classes of the search module as well as the property you want to change. If you share a link I can help you out!
Hi Nelson. Thanks for your generous tutorials!
My header is shrinking so long as I leave the ‘row padding value’ as default/blank in the builder. How can I make it shrink if I want to alter the padding size in the builder first?
Also, I’ve taken your advice and created a child theme. But I’m confused as to where I should put the <script> code you have above in the child theme?
Best wishes to you!
Hi Alex,
If the child theme has a scripts.js file then put it there, otherwise you can download our free Divi child theme which includes that file. https://www.peeayecreative.com/free-divi-child-theme-download/
I don’t understand the first question. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work if you change the padding to something else. Maybe add !important to padding: 0px 0;
Hi Nelson,
Great tutorial, as ever, thanks! I’ve got the header shrinking, but I can’t figure out what I’ve done wrong, as it’s ‘covering’ the top of the content?
Example here:
http://markm73.sg-host.com/projects/
If you could advise what I’m doing wrong, I’d be massively grateful!
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Mark,
I don’t see anything wrong. Could you explain more?
Hi Nelson,
Apologies, I found the answer on another on your (fantastic!) tutorials here – https://www.peeayecreative.com/how-to-automatically-stop-your-fixed-divi-header-from-overlapping-the-page-and-push-it-down-instead/
Couldn’t figure out what element to add padding to and the Special Circumstances section of this tutorial sorted it out, thank you again!
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Nelson, thank you so much for doing this channel here. I tried all the manual what you show and it works. Now I want to scale a Image Template and the code is for a Logo. You have some Code for scale a image what i can put under the divi option custom css? Thank you for your answer.
Hi Manuel,
Do you mean you want to do this to an image that is not the logo? I think if you replace .et_pb_menu__logo with .et_pb_image or just take it out completely this will work.
Hi Nelson,
Thanks for this tutorial. I was copying your code and pasting but it was not working. But when I looked carefully that your snippet code and the image code is not the same. I think there is something wrong. I hope you will check it.
I think the code will be this
/*set the default background color at the header section*/
.pa-header{
background: transparent;
}
/*set the background color of the fixed header when scrolling*/
.pa-fixed-header{
background: white;
}
By the way thanks for the life saving tutorial.
What is wrong? The image shows a black hex color #000, your code shows “white” so I’m not sure what is wrong?
Please go to that section of your post. You will find that.
Check out the attached image.
Okay now I understand, yes the image is wrong, I removed it.
Thank You Nelson. This is the only tutorial that solved my problem in the easiest way.
You’re welcome, glad you like it!
Hi Nelson,
As always, thanks for this tutorial.
For my custom header, I have 3 columns. One is an image (instead of using the logo of the menu), next is the menu and the last column is a button.
I am having issues determining the right class to target for the image in column 1 and the button in column 3. I’ve determined that for shrinking the button the CSS I need is something like:
padding-top: 0px !important;
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
font-size: 15px;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
However, I can’t seem to target it correctly. So far, I see that there are other settings overriding the .fixed-header class settings.
I haven’t worked out how to shrink the image yet but, again, am having issues identifying the correct CSS class to target.
The URL for this test page is https://dev.jwoc.info/home-new-header/. Could you take a look?
Thanks!
Hi Mickey,
I could help, but I do not see the class .pa-sticky-header anymore, so I can’t give the right code for you.
Hi Nelson,
I had changed the class from .pa-sticky-header to .jwoc-sticky-header in the section and in the code itself. I wanted to identify it more closely with my client but did make an attribution in the code itself.
Thanks!
I see the issue, wrong class. It’s .jwoc-fixed-header, not sticky 🙂
.jwoc-fixed-header .et_pb_image img {
background: red;
border: 2px solid red;
}
Thanks again, Nelson. Sorry, I had documented this to you incorrectly. OK, so the class assigned to the section is .jwoc-header. From the Jquery code in the head section, it changes to .jwoc-fixed-header.
I was able to target the image in column 1 based on your suggested code above, but I cannot seem to target the button in column 3.
Here’s the CSS code I have in Divi Options to try to target the button to shrink, but it’s not working. Looking in dev mode on the browser, it seems that this is being overridden. I’m wondering if I am targeting the wrong element.
/*set the transition for the button shrinking action*/
.jwoc-header .et_pb_button_0_tb_header {
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
/*change the button size when the header shrinks*/
.jwoc-fixed-header .et_pb_button_0_tb_header {
padding-top: 0px !important;
padding-bottom: 0px !important;
font-size: 15px;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
Thanks!
Is there a way to control the height of the shrunken menu bar?
Sure, things like padding and text sizes are the main things here.
Very nice. Much better than Divi’s official tutorial.
I’m glad you like it!
Hi Nelson,
Great tip, as always!
One issue I have: If I scroll down, the header shrinks and is styled correctly. But if I’ve already scrolled down the page — then click refresh — the header is displayed again in its original size and style UNTIL I scroll even one pixel. Then it realizes it’s down 100 pixels and THEN repaints the header correctly. Is there a way around this??
Here’s the dev page I’m working with: https://northeasterncommercial.com/ with password of ‘opus’
This is happening because the change in the header is under the scroll function so without scrolling a bit the change will not occur. Here the workaround is to add a single line after the ready function starts and the line is
jQuery(window).scrollTop(0);
Please try this code and let us know if this solves the issue or not. 🙂
How do we get it to work on the mobile fixed header?
This solution will be implemented on all the screens, in the mobile header as well.
This is amazing! It worked sooo well for me. I did have a quick question, is there a way to prevent another element from moving up when the logo and text shrink? I have a button that is off-center on the scroll that I would love to fix. TYIA this is very cool solution.
Hi Victoria,
I don’t think I am understanding your question…
So I ended up using a CSS work around but here is what I was trying to do: I wanted to have a button as the last menu item, but I was using the inline center logo menu style and the shrinking header info from above. Without the CSS solution, the only way to add the button was to add it as an element and use spacing to get it inline with menu. It looks good on the top but would shift out of line when you scroll and the header shrinked. Honestly this approach wasn’t the best and I wouldn’t recommend it but I wanted to clarify in case some other nutter tries this haha.
TL;DR I was wondering if there was a way to add CSS that shrunk the button element to keep it proportional and inline.
One way to add a button to the Menu can be to add one more Menu Item to the Menu by going to the WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Menus and then you can style that Menu item to display it like a button. Please try this approach and if you get stuck somewhere then comment the URL of the page and we will try to help you with that.
Hi Nelson, it works perfectly on all pages BUT on product pages !!
I mean, the logo and menu are shrinking but the background color of the header keeps the same size. Thanks.
This is weird behavior. Could you please share the URL of the product page for us to investigate further?
Hi Nelson – Some reason have the same issue happening. Evering is working except background.
James
p.s just purchased the Divi Carousel Maker- it’s great!
We are glad that you liked our Divi Carousel Maker. 🙂
Could you please share the URL of the page so that we can investigate further?
Hello Hemant, here is the link :
https://www.createursdemondes.fr/boutique/createurs-de-mondes-1/
This is related to WooCommerce (product page).
I also have an issue with the header as it’s not responsive at all !!
If you try on a bigger resolution screen (4k for example), you can see that the header’s menu is outside the header background.
I put a fixed minimum height for the section, but the line inside it passes over on big resolution screens.
Do you think we need to use VH instead of PX to make it fully responsive ?
Thanks.
Mike, is the issue already fixed now as I am not able to see any issues in the responsiveness of the header?
Can you do this with a transparent header? I used absolute to make my transparent header from one of your other tutorials. I can’t seem to get it to work with my current settings. Thoughts?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be compatible.
Hi Nelson,
Thank you for all your great tutorials.
I am struggling to get this to work on a couple of development sites I am working on. I am sure we can just look at one and it will be the same solution. I have included it below.. I have added the css class and added the js and css to their respective correct places but it does not work.
Can you please check for me.
Many thanks,
Ollie
The issue is happening because of the presence of two menu modules and the image module that is used for the logo. The snippet in the guide is the generalized solution for all the standard Tb headers. To make the header in your provided URL shrink, please go to the Divi > Theme Options > Custom CSS Panel and place the code given below:
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_menu{
padding-top: 5% !important;
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
.pa-header .et_pb_menu{
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_image{
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_image{
width: 33% !important;
}
.pa-header .et_pb_image{
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
Let us know if that helps. 🙂
Hi There 🙂
This tutorial worked great! Accept for on mobile. The logo shrinks but the section actually enlarges a little bit. Do you know how to fix this?
Hi Danny,
Could you please try this snippet and see if that helps?
@media all and (max-width: 980px){
.pa-header .et_pb_column_0_tb_header{
transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
}
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_column_0_tb_header {
margin-bottom: 0;
transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
}
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_image img{
max-width: 70%;
}
}
Thanks a lot for this great tutorial! It works as described but I wondered what the settings are to make the content below the header automatically adjust to the header size as well? So basically like the standard Divi header that pushes the content down so it automatically starts below the header? I have a very large header which covers the whole first section of the page.
Hi Matt,
I think you are asking about what is covered here: https://www.peeayecreative.com/how-to-automatically-stop-your-fixed-divi-header-from-overlapping-the-page-and-push-it-down-instead/
My (special) header section has a transparent background. When scrolling, the background of the row turns white. I would like the background of the section to be white. Is this possible? I can’t figure it out.
Hi Anneloes,
Could you please make sure that you are providing the Custom Class to the Section and not the Row?
If you have given it to the section then could you please share the URL of the page for me to investigate further?
Hey Nelson + team,
Awesome as always, and much easier than the Divi tutorial! But… I can’t get it to work on a clients site, the header at the moment just kinda jumps.
Could it be because I’ve built a Global Header rather than a custom header? Site is: https://www.braysolutions.com/
Thanks,
Emma
Hi Emma,
Could you please use this code and see if that helps?
.et_pb_section_0_tb_header{
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
padding: 18px 0 !important;
}
.et_pb_section_0_tb_header.et_pb_sticky--top{
padding: 0px 0 !important;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
.et_pb_section_0_tb_header .et_pb_image_0_tb_header img{
-webkit-transition: all .3s ease;
-moz-transition: all .3s ease;
-o-transition: all .3s ease;
max-width: 100% !important;
transition: all .3s ease;
}
.et_pb_section_0_tb_header.et_pb_sticky--top .et_pb_image_0_tb_header img{
max-width: 60% !important;
-webkit-transition: all .3s ease;
-moz-transition: all .3s ease;
-o-transition: all .3s ease;
transition: all .3s ease;
}
.et_pb_section_0_tb_header .et_pb_menu ul li a {
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
.et_pb_section_0_tb_header.et_pb_sticky--top .et_pb_menu ul li a {
font-size: 16px!important;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
Let me know how it goes. 🙂
Hello Nelson,
Congrats for your great work
After implementing the changes in this tutorial I have one problem in one of the pages I am building: https://nueva.musicacreativa.com/titulo-superior-interpretacion/
I dont want the orange menu to overlap the main header menu.
Is there something I can do so the orange menu stays just in the bottom of the main header menu??
Thanks in advance!
Hey there,
Could you please use this code and see if that helps?
.et_pb_fullwidth_menu_0.et_pb_sticky--top{
top: 66px !important
}
@media all and (max-width: 1285px){
.et_pb_fullwidth_menu_0.et_pb_sticky--top{
top: 89px !important
}
}
@media all and (max-width: 980px){
.et_pb_fullwidth_menu_0.et_pb_sticky--top{
top: 128px !important
}
}
Hi Nelson,
Thank you for your tutorials. I am having a few issues with this one however. 1. my header logo image is not shrinking. To test it with something extreme, I currently have:
/*change the logo size when the header shrinks*/
.pa-fixed-header .et_pb_menu__logo img {
max-width: 5%!important;
-webkit-transition: all .5s ease;
-moz-transition: all .5s ease;
-o-transition: all .5s ease;
transition: all .5s ease;
}
Additionally, I’m having a weird “growing” effect occurring to my header now on load. And finally, I tried to follow this tutorial: https://www.peeayecreative.com/how-to-automatically-stop-your-fixed-divi-header-from-overlapping-the-page-and-push-it-down-instead/ but it’s adding additional white space below my header.
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Hey Bryan,
I have checked the URL provided and first of all I am not seeing any white space at the top on my end and second on the scroll you are changing the image module of the same size as the previous one and that’s why you are not seeing the shrink effect. Please change the width on scroll and see if that helps.
Hi Nelson! Thanks for this tutorial!
I could get it running (shrinking) but with setting the header section position “fixed” the header uses the full witdh. What to do when using the overall box-layout? How to tell this now to the header?
Hey Daniel,
There is another way to achieve this, instead of giving position fixed, set the stick to top option in Sticky Options and see if that helps.
Hey Hemant,
that’s it! Thank you so much!
I am glad that the issue is resolved now. Please let us know if you need any further assistance. 🙂
My life would be significantly harder were it not for your tutorials. This solution worked perfectly with your other tutorials on the transparent menu and changing the menu background on scroll. THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!
That’s so nice to hear, happy your life can be easier! 🙂
Thank you! works great. At first i made mistake of setting the Css Section ID to pa-header. Works great
You’re welcome, Johnny!
We are glad to know that our guide helped you in some way. Stay tuned for more such guides.
This is really great, and thank you so much…!!!
You’re welcome!