Intro to Components

Components allow you to maintain a consistent, efficient, and scalable website by creating customizable blocks from elements and child elements. Reuse those blocks across your site, and modify them in a single place to avoid individually revising each recurring layout. Throughout Lumos components are used for Navbars, Footers, Buttons, and specific sections or layouts like a CTA section. This page should get you up to speed on how to edit components and also includes a list of the components used in this site below. For a full guide on using components check out the Webflow University page.

How to Edit a Component

To make the same changes across all instances of a component, you’ll need to edit the main component. You can edit the main component on any component instance by:

• Double-clicking the component instance
• Right-clicking the instance and choosing Edit component
• Selecting the instance and clicking the “pencil” icon in the label
• Selecting the instance and clicking the Edit component button in the Style, Element settings, or Interactions panels
• Selecting the instance and using the keyboard shortcut Enter

When you do this all other elements on the page will get a dark overlay to show that you are updating the main component and that any changes to it will affect all other instances of that component.

Understanding component properties

Component properties let you define specific elements within a component that can be modified with unique values on a component instance. For example you could make a CTA section that has an editable title and button. In more advanced use cases component properties can also show and hide specific elements, or even change visual styles (like button style, spacing amounts, or section color).

To edit a content property (eg a heading or image) you should:

1. Locate the component instance that contains the element whose values you want to modify
2. Select the element on the canvas
3. On the right side of the designer you will see a properties panel - most section components will have a large amount of properties sorted into different dropdowns, you can open and close these to just look at the specific type of property you are wanting to update (eg Heading properties)
4. Modify the element’s property values (e.g., update the text, replace an image, set the visibility, etc.)

Note: Some components (like a Navbar) might not have any properties set up because instead of having the component include different content on each page it needs to be consistent across the site without any parts of it changing.

Updating styles within a component

Lumos allows you to update visual styles within some components by using component properties. Since each component property is given a name (and often a placeholder) use this to understand what modifying that property will do to the visual style. For example, if you click on a button component below you'll notice it has a property called Small — which is set to false by default, but if type in true instead the button gets smaller. The same thing applies to the property color mode, by default it is set to 1 but if you change it to 2 the style of the button changes.

Feel free to play around with these properties when modified a component to see what visual changes are available. That being said it is recommended to clear out any overrides of a property if it is not having any effect. Eg. don't write something the doesn't work into a Color Mode property like dark or 10 if those options don't do anything, just leave the property blank (you can click on the blue text in the property to reset it).

Component Naming Conventions

One other thing you'll notice is that components have different types of names related to how they are used. Often this will include several words or phrases separated by a slash. This is to help you quickly search through and add components. The most common keywords are explained below:

• Global - These are components that are used inside other components or in component slots throughout the site, they are building blocks that can also be used within layout components.
• Section - These are pre-built sections that you can drop onto a page and have specific style controls for, when creating new pages they will help you quickly fill out the pages with prebuilt responsive designs
• Page - These are page related elements like the core structure or custom code that will exist on most pages.
• Card - These are elements that are used inside of a component slot, giving you more flexibility on the amount of content inside each component

Lumos Chrome Extension

If you are using components a lot I would highly recommend installing the lumos chrome extension - It will pull out values from the custom code to make it easier to see what your options are when modifying a components styles. Chrome extension is linked here.

Components in this site

The components used in this site are displayed below, feel free to copy and paste them onto new pages or modify them to familiarize yourself with each of their options. Note: The navbar is not included on this page but you can find it on almost any other page throughout the site.

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