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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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!