Header
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The Header appears at the top of each page to allow visitors to navigate your store with ease.
Display a main menu and secondary menu with navigation links
Add mega menus to display large dropdowns with multiple columns
Change the header layout and style
Customize the Quick search style and results
The Header displays menu links from the Navigation settings of your Shopify Admin. Use the header's main menu to show your collection and product links.
By default, multiple levels of nested links will appear as dropdown menus.
By default, the header displays the Main menu. You can create a different menu, then change the selected menu in the Header section settings.
Click the Header section to open the settings.
Under navigation, click Select menu for the main menu.
Choose your menu of links that you've made in your Shopify admin.
Click Save.
Highlight a top-level menu item with a custom color. Click the Header section and enter the name of the menu link in the Featured link label field. The featured link appears on both desktop and mobile.
Display a secondary menu of links in the top-left of the header. This menu shows top-level links in a single row — it does not show dropdown secondary links.
Start by creating a new menu of top-level links in the Navigation settings of your Shopify admin.
Click the Header section to open the settings.
Under navigation, click Select menu for the secondary menu.
Choose your menu of links that you've made in your Shopify admin.
Click Save.
The mobile menu uses settings in the Header section. You can also display mobile menu images.
Click the Header section to customize its appearance.
Change the search result styles and add suggested links.
Choose to Show social media icons at the top of the header on desktop and in the mobile menu.
Add your social media links in Theme settings > Social media to automatically display those social icons. Enter the full URL, including https://.
The customer account icon appears by default when customer accounts are enabled in your Shopify admin.
Go to your admin Settings > Customer accounts to find the Show login link in the header of online store and at checkout option.
Related links
If you have menus with three levels of nested links, you can display the links in multiple columns by adding a .
This feature is available in v3.4.0 — Learn how to to access new features.
You can customize search results with Shopify's . Create custom filters, select result types, and add "synonym groups" for relevant results. Learn more in Shopify's .
Customer accounts is a Shopify feature. Our theme support cannot provide code customizations to remove the customer icon. See Shopify's manual to learn more.
Language selector
Allow visitors to view your store in another language that you've added.
Country selector
Allow visitors to select their preferred region and currency.
Mobile menu images
Display images next to collection and product links in the mobile menu.
Colors
Change the text and background colors.
Layout
Rearrange the elements of the header.
Logo
Replace the store name with an image.
Transparent header
Make the header background transparent.
Sticky header
Fix the header to the top of the screen.
Cart icon
Change the icon for the cart.
Product results style
Allow visitors to view your store in another language that you've added.
Promotion links
Allow visitors to select their preferred region and currency.
Searchable fields
Limit the scope of search by selecting searchable areas of your store.
