How to Hide Your Header Before Scrolling with Divi’s Sticky Options

A hero section is the eyecatcher of your website. It usually sets the tone for the rest of the website and shows visitors what they can expect. That’s why it can be helpful to make sure all focus is on the few elements you share in your hero section, such as the copy and call to action. But just because you want to highlight the hero section, doesn’t mean you don’t need a navigation bar too. If you’re looking for a user-friendly way to reveal your header once people start scrolling, you’ll love this post. Today, we’re showing you how to hide your header before scroll using Divi and its built-in sticky options. The effect we’re achieving is fully responsive and looks great across all screen sizes. You’ll be able to download the template JSON file for free as well!

Let’s get to it.

Preview

Before we dive into the tutorial, let’s take a quick look at the outcome across different screen sizes.

Desktop

Mobile

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When uploading the template to your Divi Theme Builder and entering the template, you’ll notice that the section isn’t visible. That’s because the effect is already applied to it. To modify the different elements, you can either switch over to wireframe mode and access the elements there, or temporarily remove the section transform translate & main element settings and put them back when you’re done modifying the header design.

1. Building The Header Element Structure Inside a New Header Template

Create New Global Header Template

Start by going to the Divi Theme Builder. There, start building a new global or custom header.

Section Settings

Background Color

Once inside the template editor, you’ll notice a section. Open the section settings and change the background color.

• Background Color: #001b34

Spacing

Move on to the section’s design tab and remove all default top and bottom padding next.

• Top Padding: 0px
• Bottom Padding: 0px

Add New Row

Column Structure

Continue by adding a new row using the following column structure:

Background Color

Without adding modules yet, open the row settings and apply a background color of your choice.

• Background Color: #001b34

Sizing

Move on to the row’s design tab and change the sizing settings accordingly:

• Use Custom Gutter Width: Yes
• Gutter Width: 1
• Equalize Column Heights: Yes
• Width: 100%
• Max Width: 100%

Spacing

Continue by changing the padding values accordingly:

• Top Padding: 0px
• Bottom Padding: 0
• Left Padding:
  • Desktop: /
  • Tablet & Phone: 5%
• Right Padding:
  • Desktop: /
  • Tablet & Phone: 5%

Column 1 Settings

Background Color

Once you’re done with the general row settings, open the column 1 settings and apply a background color.

• Background Color: #f4d5b8

Add Menu Module to Column 1

Select Menu

Time to add modules, starting with a Menu Module in column 1. Select a menu of your choice.

Upload Logo

Upload a logo next.

Background Color

Then, change the background color.

• Background Color: #063765

Background Image

And upload an illustration background image of your choice. You can find and use the one below by downloading the freebie at the beginning of this post.

• Background Image Size: Fit
• Background Image Position: Center

Menu Text Settings

Move on to the module’s design tab and change the menu text size.

• Menu Text Size: 18px

Dropdown Menu Settings

Then, change the dropdown menu settings accordingly:

• Dropdown Menu Line Color: rgba(0,0,0,0)
• Mobile Menu Background Color: #ddc1a7
• Mobile Menu Text Color: #063765

Icons Settings

Change the icon colors in the icons settings to white too.

• Shopping Cart Icon Color: #ffffff
• Search Icon Color: #ffffff
• Hamburger Menu Icon Color: #ffffff

Sizing

Then, modify the logo max width in the sizing settings.

• Logo Max Width: 70px

Spacing

Apply some custom padding values next.

• Top Padding: 1%
• Bottom Padding: 1%
• Left Padding: 5%
• Right Padding: 5%

Box Shadow

Along with some custom box shadow.

• Box Shadow Blur Strength: 50px
• Shadow Color: rgba(0,0,0,0.3)

Transform Translate

And complete the module settings by modifying the transform translate settings as follows:

• Right:
  • Desktop: 20px
  • Tablet & Phone: 0px

Add Button Module to Column 2

Add Copy

In column 2, the only module we need is a Button Module. Add some copy of your choice.

Button Alignment

Move on to the design tab and change the button alignment.

• Button Alignment: Right

Button Settings

Then, style the button accordingly:

• Use Custom Styles For Button: Yes
• Button Text Size: 16px
• Button Text Color: #2a2a2a
• Button Background Color: #ffffff
• Button Border Width: 0px
• Button Border Color: rgba(0,0,0,0)

• Button Font Weight: Bold
• Button Font Style: Uppercase

Spacing

Give some shape to your button using custom padding too.

• Top Padding: 20px
• Bottom Padding: 20px
• Left Padding: 40px
• Right Padding: 40px

Box Shadow

Next, apply a box shadow.

• Box Shadow Blur Strength: 30px
• Shadow Color: rgba(0,0,0,0.18)

Transform Translate

And complete the module settings by modifying the transform translate values accordingly:

• Right:
  • Desktop: 50px
  • Tablet & Phone: 0px

2. Apply Custom Sticky Effects to Achieve Hide Before Scroll Effect

Make Row Absolute Positioned

Now that we’ve set the foundation of our header, we can apply the hide header before scroll effect. You can apply this effect to any header you build, as long as you follow the steps below. The first step is opening the row settings and turning the row absolute. This will help us prevent space from being taken up by the header at the top of our page.

• Position: Absolute
• Location: Top Left

Make Section Sticky

Next, we’ll open the section settings and allow it to stick to the top.

• Sticky Position: Stick to Top
• Bottom Sticky Limit: None
• Offset From Surrounding Sticky Elements: Yes
• Transition Default and Sticky Styles: Yes

Section Animation

We’ll add an animation to our section too. This animation will help prevent the header from showing when your page is loading.

• Animation Style: Fade

Section Transition Duration

You can decide for yourself how slow or fast the header slides down once you start scrolling by modifying the transition duration in the section’s advanced tab. The higher the duration, the slower the header slides down.

• Transition Duration: 800ms

Section Transform Translate

Now, in a default state, we don’t want the header to be visible. The first step to achieving that is going to the section’s transform settings and using a negative value for the Y-axis.

• Right: -300px

We’ll bring this value back to zero in a sticky state. This means that as soon as you start scrolling, the header becomes visible again.

• Sticky Right: 0px

Section Visibility CSS Property

The next and last step of this tutorial isn’t theoretically needed to achieve the effect, but it’s a good practice to hide elements that aren’t in use. That’s why we’ll go to the section’s advanced tab and add the following line of CSS code in the main element box:

• Main Element:

  visibility: hidden

We’ll change back our content to visible in a sticky state. That’s it!

• Sticky Main Element:

  visibility: visible;

Preview

Now that we’ve gone through all the steps, let’s take a final look at the outcome across different screen sizes.

Desktop

Mobile

Final Thoughts

In this post, we’ve shown you how to make sure your hero section is the focus of your page as soon as people enter your page. More specifically, we’ve shown you how to hide your header before scroll. This allows your visitors to process the hero section information first before they’re presented with an ability to navigate. You were able to download the JSON file for free as well! If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below.

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