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Hostinger AI Builder: How to Style the Header in Manual Mode

Open the header’s Edit header → Style panel to adjust its background, navigation appearance, buttons, and social icons. Use global text styles for navigation size and layout settings for spacing and padding.
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To style a header in Hostinger AI Builder’s manual mode, select the header, click Edit header, and open Style. There you can change its background, transparency, navigation font and colors, buttons, and social icons. Use global text styles for navigation text size, and the header’s layout controls for spacing, padding, and arrangement.

Open the header style controls

  1. In the editor, click the header section.

  2. Choose Edit header, then open the Style tab.

  3. Use the dropdown to select Header, Button, or Social icons, depending on what you want to change.

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Hostinger Help Center’s header styling instructions describe the controls in this panel.

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Change the header background and navigation appearance

Background and transparency

In the Header style controls, set the background color or enable transparency. A transparent header inherits the background of the section beneath it, so its appearance can depend on the opening section of the page.

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Navigation font and colors

Choose the navigation text font and set its color for normal and hover states. If you want larger or smaller navigation text, change the text size in the global text style settings rather than looking for a size control in the header’s Style panel.

Style header buttons and social icons

Buttons

Select Button in the Style dropdown to add and customize buttons shown in the header.

Social icons

Select Social icons to enable the icons, add links to your profiles, and adjust icon size and normal or hover colors.

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Use layout settings for spacing, padding, and logo display

Appearance controls and layout controls serve different purposes. Use the header layout settings for sticky behavior, element and link spacing, menu layout, top and bottom padding, and logo display or size. To change which pages appear in the navigation, use the Pages and navigation panel. Hostinger’s header editing guide covers these layout and navigation controls.

Know what is global and what is local

Use the Website styles panel for site-wide design choices such as global colors, text styles (including navigation links), button shape, and animations. Individual elements and sections also have local settings. In practice, use global text styles for navigation text size, the header’s Style panel for header-specific appearance, and layout controls for spacing and padding. See Hostinger’s guide to website styles for its distinction between global and local styling.

Choose a background approach for each page

Approach

What it does

Use it when

Configured header background

Applies the header background you set in its Style controls.

You want a solid header treatment rather than one that blends into the section below.

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Transparent header

Inherits the background of the section beneath the header.

You want the header to blend with each page’s opening section.

Custom code for page-specific solid colors

Hostinger documents a custom-code method for using different solid header colors on different pages.

You need distinct solid colors by page and are comfortable following a separate, more technical procedure.

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For the custom-code method, follow Hostinger’s instructions for changing the header color on specific pages; do not treat it as a setting in the regular Style dropdown. Hostinger says to add the code through More → Integrations → Custom code, then save and publish. The effect is visible in preview mode and on the live site, not in the editor.

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Check the mobile header separately

Desktop and mobile views can be customized separately. Reordering items on desktop does not automatically change their order on mobile, so inspect the mobile view after adjusting navigation or related layout. Hostinger explains this behavior in its manual-mode template customization guide.

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