Components, Nav Bar & Lightbox

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Use pre-built controls like Nav Bar, Tabs, Slider and Lightbox

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Getting Started with Webflow

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Flex, Grid and Adaptive Layout

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Components, Nav Bar & Lightbox

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Tabs and Customizations

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About this Course

In this free Webflow course, I'm teaching you how to implement and deploy a real site for Angle from scratch without a single line of code. It's going to be a fully functional site with multiple pages, advanced interactions, dynamic data, payments and animated assets from Shape.

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Getting Started

In this section, we'll learn how to create an adaptive Navbar. We'll also learn how to turn it into a Hamburger Menu when the screen size is too small.

Navbar

To add a Navbar, select Body and add the Navbar element under Components. Place it above Hero so that it's at the top of the page. Set the Position to Absolute to make it float and set its width to 100%. Set the background to transparent by simply entering 'transparent' in the color input field. Now, go to Position and give top the value of 30. Set the font-color to black, font-weight to Medium and font-size to 16.

Logo

Now, we'll add a logo to the Navbar. Select Brand in Navbar, insert an image element in it and then choose the Angle logo file. To properly align the image, select Brand and set its width as well as height to 60. In Display, choose Flex. Select the 2nd option for both Align and Justify to make sure that it's centered. The best thing is that Webflow does all the work for us in terms of adaptiveness.

Preview

When you click on the 'eye' icon in the left, you enter the Preview mode. Preview is where you can interact with the website. If you go to the preview mode, you can see that the Navbar items are normal links. There's also some default interaction when you click on the hamburger menu. We'll be adding custom interactions now.

Interactions

Head back to the Editor by clicking the 'eye' icon again. Select the Navbar and go to Element Settings by clicking on the cog icon next to the brush icon on the right. In Navbar Settings, click on the 'Open Menu' button so that the menu stays open, this makes it easier to make changes and see them right away. In Menu Type, select Over Right.

Styling Navbar

Select the Nav Menu and set the background-color to white. To have the change take effect, go back to settings, close and open the menu again. Test it in Preview to make sure it works fine. We made the recent changes to Mobile devices, what we should have done is made them for Tablets first so the smaller devices would have simply inherited it. To rectify this, click on the Tablet icon and change the color to white there as well.

Lightbox

Head back to Desktop, close the Navbar and select Hero. Add a Div Block to Hero and then add the Lightbox component to the newly created Div Block. Click Lightbox Link and choose the Mockups1 file as the image. Duplicate Lightbox Link twice. Now, select the Div Block and in Display, choose Grid because we want to have gaps. Click on the '+' icon in Columns to add another column. Remove the 2nd row in Rows. Set the gap for each column to 30px. Lastly, change the 2nd image to Mockups2 and the 3rd one to Mockups3.

Styling Lightbox

Start off by clicking on the 1st Lightbox Link and give it a padding of 20 on all sides. You can also press Shift and scrub up & down to apply a specific number to all the sides at once. Set the background to white and border-radius to 50. Add a box shadow, set Angle to 180, Distance to 30, Blur to 60 and the A value in color to 15.

Reusing Class

We want to apply the same styles to the other two Lightbox Links as well. Classes make this very easy. Though, the classes don't get applied to similar components by default, all we've to do is type in the name of the class in the Selector input field. In this case, add 'Lightbox Link' to the other two components. To ensure that the components do not take up the full width and height of the component, select Div Block and in Align, choose the 1st option i.e. Align Items: Start. Lastly, add a padding of 30 to all sides.

Lightbox Link

Go to Lightbox Link Settings for the first link. In media, click on the image icon and add Mockups1. Now, if you click on the first image, you'll see an enlarged version of it on the screen. Do the same for the second and the third link. To be able to navigate between the links, check the 'Link with other lightboxes' option and add Mockups as the group name. Make sure to do this for all the Lightbox Links.

Responsiveness

Let's add some responsiveness to our Lightbox component. Firstly, click on the tablet icon and reduce the border-radius for the Lightbox Links to 20. We'll also decrease the gap between the link by clicking the 'Edit Grid' button and setting the column gap to 20. Set padding-left and padding-right to 20.

Mobile Responsive

For mobile-landscape, we'll be reducing the padding. Press shift and scrub up until the value is 10. Lastly, let's deal with mobile portrait. Select the Div Block and click on the 'Edit Grid' button. In columns, remove the last two so every column takes up 100% of the width. You can now Publish the website and test it to make sure everything looks fine.

Conclusion

In this section, we learned how to create a Navbar, how to create a Lightbox and add navigation to it. In the next one, we'll be creating a phone interaction using tabs. Hope to see you there!

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Components

Add Navbar component

Navbar

Select Body

Create Navbar

Background Transparent

Position Absolute (or Fixed), Top 30px, Tablet Top 0px

Width 100%

Color Black

SF Pro Rounded, Medium

Size 16px

Logo

Brand container 60x60

Flex W Center H Center

Create Div

Display Grid, Remove Row

Gap 30px

Shift Padding 30px

Align Top

Lightbox Link

Mockup-1

Radius 50px

Background White

Shift Padding 20px

Box Shadow 30px, 60px 15%

Flex, Align Top

Set Media in Element Settings

Duplicate

Mockup 2, 3

Change Media

Link with other lightboxes

Group name Mockups

Media Queries

Tablet: Lightbox padding LR 20px, Gap 20px

Mobile Landscape: Link Radius 20px, Padding 10px

Mobile Portrait: 1 Column

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