In this article, we’ll show how to create collapsible buttons in Squarespace in order to enhance mobile experiences on your website.
Addition of various buttons can make your site more visually pleasing and easier for visitors to navigate – this is particularly useful for mobile users.
Add a button
Squarespace provides site owners with many useful tools that allow them to customize their websites without needing extensive coding knowledge. One such feature is collapsing buttons in text blocks – great for adding calls-to-action as they enable visitors to quickly access important information without scrolling.
This tutorial will show you how to easily incorporate collapsible buttons in a text block on Squarespace. It’s quick and straightforward – perfect for making your website more user-friendly for visitors!
If you are using an older version of Squarespace than 7.1, some of this content won’t display correctly. With its introduction of the Accordion Block in 7.1, however, nested content can now be displayed in an accordion and toggleable accordion format for easy organization on one page and to prevent clutter and overwhelm.
Start by adding a text block to your page using the + icon and selecting “Text”. Once added, click “Edit” to launch an edit window that enables you to change text, label buttons, and choose links for them.
When you are ready to add the button, click “Button” from the menu on the left. Choose an icon and button color, before pressing “Save” to save your changes on your website.
If you want to personalize your button even further, the Site Styles panel offers plenty of opportunities. Play around with padding and border radius settings until they match your brand’s aesthetic; change hex codes as needed if desired for button colors – this way your buttons can coordinate seamlessly with the rest of your site and customers will love your customer-friendly site!
Add a block
Squarespace provides users with several tools that enable them to build websites without prior experience. One such tool is Block Editor, which lets you edit individual blocks to meet your own unique layout needs. You may also add the ability to add blocks that can be placed anywhere on a page for customized displays and customized layouts.
Squarespace provides more than the standard text and image blocks – with several special blocks for specific uses, like an accordion block that displays content nested within an expandable box, helping reduce clutter on pages while simplifying website navigation.
The Accordion Block can be added to any page on your website with the Block Editor. To add it, simply click on the + icon located directly next to an empty block, which will bring up a modal window where you can choose what type of block type you would like added (if unsure, use “Suggest” button for guidance). Once selected, use three-dot menu to insert or move into position either before or after.
Once a block has been added to your page, it can be moved easily by dragging it. Furthermore, its settings can be adjusted through clicking its menu – for instance changing background colors of buttons or font sizes can also be done easily as well as altering its border and padding size settings.
Custom HTML code can also help to enhance the look and feel of your site while potentially troubleshooting issues with it.
If your website is having issues, the first step should be identifying its problematic blocks. To do this, open up developer tools in your web browser and search for any div tags containing a class name “sqs-block” followed by an unique identifier; this information will allow you to search solutions in Squarespace Support Center.
Add a class
Squarespace makes adding collapsible text incredibly straightforward. Simply create a Text block in the section you need to edit and click “+” icon to activate “Collapse”.
Squarespace 7.1 comes equipped with a generic button design by default, which may not suit your desired look or layout. You can easily customize it by changing several settings directly in Squarespace.
One of the quickest and easiest ways to customize a Squarespace button’s style is using “Bold” and “Italic” options in Text Blocks – these allow for text color, font size, background color selections and background options, giving your buttons added visual interest.
An alternative way is using the Code Block, which allows you to add custom CSS and JavaScript. However, this approach requires more technical expertise: first you must locate the unique ID for the element you wish to customize – either using Inspect Element or Squarespace ID Finder as methods.
Once you’ve determined an element’s unique ID, you can use it to change its style using the Code Block. This method also makes changes specific to certain blocks – for instance making contact form boxes smaller in certain parts of your website is one example of using this approach.
Use the Code Block to add custom classes to p elements. This enables you to target it using CSS, and is especially beneficial when using a responsive theme as this ensures your content appears identical on both desktops and mobile phones.
Finally, the Code Block allows you to easily change the background color of any squarespace text block – perfect for adding images or patterns as backgrounds on your website without needing to understand HTML or CSS! Customizing Squarespace websites without knowing either is much simpler with Code Block!
Add a style
Collapsing buttons are an effective way to reduce page clutter and hide content you don’t want your visitors to immediately see. Furthermore, these collapsing buttons can serve as powerful call-to-action tools which prompt visitors to take action immediately on your website. However, designing attractive and effective collapsing buttons requires attention to many subtle details that must be considered in their design process.
To give your website’s buttons more of a distinct and tailored appearance, consider adding additional CSS styles. By altering border color or font style settings or even altering transparency settings you can make your buttons truly stand out from competitors’ sites. These small additions will help your site stand out amongst competition.
One of the easiest and most powerful ways to customize your Squarespace website is through its Site Styles panel. Using this easy feature allows you to adjust the design without editing HTML code – an essential tool in website management!
Site Styles provides more than just font and color customization: you can also tailor the size of buttons and text for use on smaller screens such as mobile devices. Furthermore, padding settings enable you to make buttons larger or smaller as needed – helping make your website appear more professional and organized!
Site Styles panel offers another great advantage – providing a full list of each option and setting that has been implemented on your site. This can serve as a handy reference guide when working on future projects and give a better idea of how you should implement certain settings on Squarespace websites.
Collapsible sections on a Squarespace website can help your users feel more organized and improve the mobile user experience, as well as contributing to search engine optimization (SEO). They may even help boost rankings on Google search by covering up information that doesn’t match up with user queries and making more space for what matters to users.
