Pinned position

Use Pinned position to lock elements in place as users scroll through an element’s parent or the page.

Setting the position type to pinned

To change an element’s position, open the inspector panel and click the dropdown under Position type, then select Pinned.

A fashion website on Editor X. A black circle with the words new collection on it is the selected element and the cursor is highlighting the Pinned option in the Position type dropdown.

Defining what the element is pinned to

To define where you want to pin an element, click the Pin to dropdown.

The options that will appear are dependent on whether the element’s parent is a container or a section.

Select one of the options to set your desired behavior:

Container: Make the element visible as visitors scroll through a specific container.

Section: Make the element visible as visitors scroll through a specific section.

Page: Make the element visible as visitors scroll up and down the page.

Depending on what your element is pinned to, it will behave differently in relation to how the user scrolls through your design.

If an element is pinned to the page, the position of that element will be set relative to the viewport, meaning the element will always be fixed in that position regardless of how the site sections scroll. You may be familiar with this position as the CSS property Fixed.

If an element is pinned to a parent section or container, the element’s position will be set relative to its parent. When an element is pinned to a section or a container, the element will only stay in place as a user scrolls through that section or container*.

Once its parent moves out of the viewport, the pinned element will move with it and will no longer be visible.

Note that pinned elements are not affected by parent overflow. For example, whether the overflow is set to hidden, scroll or show, the pinned element will still be displayed.

*To find out how to create scrollable containers visit our overflow article.

A fashion website on Editor X. A black circle with the words new collection on it is the selected element and the cursor is highlighting Layouter in the Pin to dropdown menu.

Changing from Pin to page to Pin to section

Click the Position type dropdown and choose one of the other options—Default or Sticky—to remove the existing Pinned position.

Then, click on the Position type dropdown again, choose Pinned and select Section under Pin to.

A fashion website on Editor X. A red circle with the word shop on it is the element that’s been selected and the cursor is highlighting Section in the Pin to dropdown.

Follow these steps in the editor

Open exercise template →

Pin an element to the page. Scroll to the fourth section and click on the “new collection” circle image. Change its pinned position in the dropdown to Page. Click Preview, then scroll up and down the page to see how the change affected the way the element behaves.
Pin an element to a section. Scroll to the third section and click on the “shop” button. Change its pinned position in the dropdown to Section. Notice that you’ll first have to change the position type to default or sticky before you can edit the Pin to option. Click Preview and scroll to see how this change affected the behavior of the element.

Transcript

Let’s explore how to use Pinned position on Editor X.

Pinned position lets you lock elements to the position of their parent containers. This means that, when an element is pinned, it will stay in place as you scroll through the content in its parent.

Let’s dive into how it works.

In this example, we’ve added two elements—a shop button and a new collection image—and both are set to the default position type. To pin an element, set the position type to Pinned from the dropdown, and select which parent you want to pin it to.

If we pin the shop button to the page it will stay visible as the user scrolls through the site’s sections. And, for example, if we want the element to appear in the bottom right corner, we can dock this element to the right and the bottom and add margins to distance the element from the page’s borders.

When we switch to preview mode, you can see that the shop button now stays in place as you scroll the page. You may be familiar with this Pin to page behavior as the CSS attribute “Fixed”.

Now let’s see what happens when we pin an element to its parent container. First, let’s return to edit mode. Here we have a layouter set up as a slider where the scroll is horizontal.

To get the behavior we want, we’ll click on the element and choose Pinned position again from the Inspector Panel. You can see we have a few options under the Pin to dropdown: pin to page which we just used, pin to section which would cause an element to stay in place until we reach the next section, and pin to layouter which, in this case, is our container. We’ll choose Pin to layouter. And, to set the distance between the pinned element and the layouter content, we can add margins.

Also, if we drag the element across the canvas, it will stay relative to its parent container and won’t attach to any other containers.

You can choose to place the element outside of the parent container but, for this example, we’ll keep the element inside the parent container we pinned it to.

If we click preview, we can see that the element is now locked in place.

It’s worth noting that, once pinned position is set up, it will automatically be applied to all breakpoints.

Changes to your pinned position settings will also affect other breakpoints, including removing or changing the element’s parent. As an example, notice how changing the element’s position type back to default on mobile also affects its position on desktop.

If you don’t want an element to be pinned at a lower breakpoint, right-click the element and select Don’t Display. Or, go to the Layers panel, select the element and click Don’t Display. You can also add an element to replace it.

However, when we hide the element on mobile, this doesn’t affect the desktop layout. The element is still displayed at this breakpoint.

Editor X is an advanced creation platform. To master it, continue watching this series of video tutorials.