A slim, high-visibility announcement bar featuring an infinitely scrolling striped background and a compact call-to-action button.
When you need to alert every single visitor to a sitewide sale without taking up their entire screen, an announcement bar is the industry standard. The Animated Stripes Announcement Bar takes the relentless, eye-catching motion of our massive promo hero and condenses it into a sleek, narrow header widget designed to sit perfectly at the very top of your website.
This widget is built to be unobtrusive yet impossible to ignore, balancing small screen real estate with aggressive styling.
The Cyber Aesthetic: Moving away from the neon yellow, this widget defaults to a striking indigo and deep purple striped pattern, accented by an emerald green button and stark white text. This creates a premium, tech-focused "Cyber Event" vibe.
Horizontal Layout: The text and button sit inline on desktop screens to save vertical space. If a user views the site on a mobile device, the flexbox layout automatically wraps the button neatly below the text to maintain perfect legibility.
Compact Call-to-Action: The button has been scaled down significantly compared to the hero sections. It features tight padding, a small bold font, and gently rounded corners, making it look like a highly clickable interface element rather than a massive editorial block.
Just like its larger counterpart, this widget prioritizes your storefront's load speeds.
Flawless CSS Panning: The background stripes use a meticulously calculated repeating-linear-gradient size (84.852px) combined with a keyframe animation that shifts the background exactly one pattern width. This creates a perfectly seamless, infinite loop.
Zero-JS Engine: No JavaScript is used to calculate widths or force layout recalculations, ensuring the banner animates smoothly at 60 frames per second without causing any layout shift (CLS).
Accessibility Compliant: The animation will instantly stop if a user has prefers-reduced-motion enabled in their system preferences, leaving a beautiful, static two-tone indigo bar in its place.
This is the ultimate sitewide global element. Pin it to the very top of your global header (above your logo and navigation) to ensure that no matter what page a customer lands on—whether it's the homepage, a blog post, or a specific product—they immediately know there is an active sale happening.
Bring this layout to life on your website in just a few clicks.
Edit Animated Stripes Announcement Bar visually using the native Squarespace extension
First, ensure you have connected your website to the native Redesignee extension. Once connected, you have two easy ways to build:
Native Block: Simply add the native Redesignee Widget Block directly from the fluid engine editor menu inside Squarespace.
Manual Markdown: Add a standard Markdown Block, paste your widget’s code snippet, and the Redesignee floating "Customize" button will automatically appear right over the block.
Both methods let you tweak settings, copy items, and design visually in real time. Saving your changes syncs the updates instantly to your live page.
See Squarespace installation guide
Connect natively via Gutenberg or Elementor
Make sure you have the free Redesignee WordPress Plugin installed. To drop the Animated Stripes Announcement Bar into Elementor, simply drag and drop the Redesignee widget from your sidebar. If you are using the Gutenberg Block Editor, click the " + " icon and select the Redesignee Block. Launch the Cloud Library directly inside your workspace, choose your customized template, and import it with a single click. It automatically inherits your theme fonts and styles!
WordPress plugin installation guide
Quick copy-and-paste for custom setups
If you are using Webflow, Shopify, Wix, or a custom HTML site, click the "Export Widget" button on this page and ensure the platform selector is set to "HTML". Click "Copy" to copy the clean, un-nested source code snippet directly to your clipboard. Paste this code into any HTML component, Code Block, or Embed tool inside your website builder. All styles, animations, and scripts are self-contained and ready to run.
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Sep 15, 2026 05:17 AM
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