Header Customisation

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Topic: Customizing Shopify header elements—cart/login icons, menu bar color and centering, and showing page sections via hover dropdown.

Guidance provided: Narrow the request to a single, well-scoped question. Include code samples and an inspectable store/URL to improve chances of getting help. Broad, low-effort posts often go unanswered.

Concrete tip (for linking to sections): In Navigation, set menu item links to URLs with hash fragments (e.g., /about-us#contact). The hash must match the section’s HTML id or a custom id added in the content, enabling direct jumps to sections.

Resources: Use forum search, especially for themes based on Dawn, where solutions often overlap. Shared search links cover “color cart icon” and “Dawn color menu.”

Status/outcome: Partial guidance only. No specific solutions yet for custom cart/login icons or menu bar color/centering. Original poster thanked the advice; thread remains open pending more specific details or follow-up questions.

Summarized with AI on December 16. AI used: gpt-5.
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I am looking for some resources regarding customisations for my store! It has been some time since I’ve designed a store, and Shopify feels much more advanced than I remember. If someone could kindly guide me in the right direction for the following, please let me know!

  1. How can I customise the cart and login icons to match my brand’s design without having to use the default options?
  2. How do I change the colour of my menu bar and centre it?
  3. When I hover over a page on the menu bar, how do I get the dropdown box to show sections for my pages?

I’d appreciate any help! Thank you and God bless!

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Hi @campbloo :waving_hand: Read: https://community.shopify.com/c/blog/how-to-get-support-from-the-community/ba-p/1399408

Make the effort to ask a singular scoped question, or show your effort so far with code samples, inspectable URLS.

Overly broad multiple questions with low effort in self help are drastically likelier to join the graveyard of ~400k unanswered questions.

#3 enter the relevant urls with a hash fragment into the menu in the admin i.e. /about-us#contact etc etc where the hash is either the sections html id, or a id you put into custom contents HTML.

For simple concepts and keywords always use the forum search first with the relevant theme name (most free shopify themes are based on Dawn so there is utility overlap there when searching).

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Thank you for the advice! I appreciate it!