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Header

Info

What does the component do?

The header is the top section of a website or application that contains important navigation elements to make it easier for users to access the main areas of the site or application.

When should the component be used?

On every page of a website to ensure consistent navigation and brand presence.
To make main navigation elements, logo, search functions and important links visible and easily accessible.
To improve usability and orientation on the website.

Rules

Navigation elements should be logically grouped and labelled for easy navigation. They always have an icon (to the left of the label).
If a hamburger menu is placed, it is always displayed first and to the left.
The header should contain a search function if the website offers a lot of content.
Avoid too many elements in the header so that clarity and responsive behaviour are not negatively affected.

Child Components

Header-Button

Header-Link

Anatomy

Number	Type	Description	Optional
1	Component	`sbb-header-button` oder `sbb-header-link`	No
1a	Component	`sbb-icon`	No
1b	Text	Label	Yes
1c	Component	`sbb-menu`	Yes
2	Component	`sbb-logo`	Yes

Demo

Examples

Basic

Expanded

With User Menu

Basic Scroll Hide

Expanded Scroll Hide

Container Scroll Origin Scroll Hide

HTML-Markup kopiert.

Implementation

The sbb-header component is a container for actions and a logo, and it is displayed at the top of the page.

Slots

It has two slots:
the first one can contain one or more action (sbb-header-button or
sbb-header-link)
or other action items like sbb-button or sbb-link,
and it is displayed at the left end of the component; the second slot is displayed at the right end,
and it can contain a logo, which by default is the sbb-logo.

<sbb-header>
  <sbb-header-link icon-name="hamburger-menu-small" href="https://sbb.ch/somewhere"
    >Menu</sbb-header-link
  >
  <sbb-header-button icon-name="magnifying-glass-small">Search</sbb-header-button>
</sbb-header>

Style

Setting the expanded property will cause the sbb-header component to take up the full width of the page.

To avoid that tabbed/focused elements get hidden behind the header,
it's recommended to set on the <html> tag the CSS property scroll-padding-top to var(--sbb-header-height) or to a greater value.
With this, it's ensured that content will be visible all the time.

Positioning and visibility

By default, the sbb-header has a fixed position at the top of the page;
when the page is scrolled down, a box-shadow appears below it and the component remains visible.
It's possible to change this behavior by setting the hideOnScroll property to true, or adding the hide-on-scroll
attribute: in this case, the box-shadow is still set, but the component disappears when the page is scrolled down and
then reappears as soon as it's scrolled up. It's also possible to bind this behaviour to something other than the document,
using the scrollOrigin property, which accepts an HTMLElement or the id of the element to search for.

<sbb-header expanded hideOnScroll>
  <sbb-header-button icon-name="magnifying-glass-small">Search</sbb-header-button>
  <a href="https://www.sbb.ch" slot="logo">
    <sbb-logo protective-room="none"></sbb-logo>
  </a>
</sbb-header>

Customizing

Users can customize position and behaviour of actions inside the sbb-header component
by adding classes to sbb-header-button/sbb-header-link elements and then defining their own style rules.

All the examples in Storybook have the following requirements:

four action items (with custom icons);
the first item is always left aligned and has expand-from set to small;
the other three items are left aligned in breakpoints zero to medium, and right aligned from large to ultra;
the last item is not visible in breakpoints zero to small.

To achieve this result, a div tag with a CSS class named sbb-header-spacer was added between the first
and the second sbb-header-button item, then a class named last-element was added to the last one.
Finally, the following custom CSS has been added(*). The result can be seen in the home and home--logged-in stories.

.last-element {
  display: none;
}

@media screen and (width >= 840px) {
  .last-element {
    display: block;
  }
}

@media screen and (width < 1024px) {
  .sbb-header-spacer {
    display: none;
  }
}

Content overflow

If a certain sbb-header-button/sbb-header-link should be shrunken (receive ellipsis) when there is too little space,
set the CSS class sbb-header-shrinkable on the desired sbb-header-button/sbb-header-link.

<sbb-header shadow="true">
  <sbb-header-link icon-name="hamburger-menu-small" href="https://sbb.ch/somewhere" target="_blank">
    Menu
  </sbb-header-link>
  <sbb-header-button class="sbb-header-shrinkable">
    Christina Müller has a long name
  </sbb-header-button>
</sbb-header>

(*) Technical note: Due the presence of media-query rules, it was not possible to add those rules directly
in the component's stories (see also this Storybook issue),
so they were wrapped into a style tag and added to the Storybook's configuration file named preview-head.html.

Properties

Name	Attribute	Privacy	Type	Default	Description
`expanded`	`expanded`	public	`boolean`	`false`	Whether to allow the header content to stretch to full width. By default, the content has the appropriate page size.
`hideOnScroll`	`hide-on-scroll`	public	`boolean`	`false`	Whether the header should hide and show on scroll.
`scrollOrigin`	`scroll-origin`	public	`string \| HTMLElement \| Document`		The element's id or the element on which the scroll listener is attached.

CSS Properties

Name	Default	Description
`--sbb-header-height`	`zero-small:var(--sbb-spacing-fixed-14x);medium-ultra:var(--sbb-spacing-fixed-24x)`	Can be used to modify height of the header.
`--sbb-header-z-index`	`10`	Can be used to modify the z-index of the header.

Slots

Name	Description
	Use the unnamed slot to add actions or content to the header.
`logo`	Slot used to render the logo on the right side (sbb-logo as default).