Styled CTA

#Overview

This guide shows how to build a styled call to action (CTA) containing a heading, a body, styling options and a button.

To create this, we will use single line text fields, rich text fields, enumerations and components.

This is the type of CTA you want if the component is meant to be used in different pages in your project which have different styling options available.

Here, by adding styling option dropdown menus, you'll give Editors the possibility to style the CTA using the options you provide.

Dropdowns are great for this, because while they have options, it will only be within a limited selection that ensures the whole project has a cohesive look & feel.

Styled CTA

#Prerequisites

• You need to have a Hygraph account. If you don't have one, you can sign up here.
• You need to have a Hygraph project. You can:
  • Create a project: This is the way to go if you want to follow the entire tutorial for learning purposes.
  • Clone the cookbook project: This is the way to go if you're curious about how the CTAs are made but don't want to follow the step-by-step creation process. This project contains the entire CTA Cookbook so you can compare them, or look into what instances they contain.
  • Use an existing project of yours: If you have a project already and want to add this CTA to it, this is the way to go. In this case, you may need to adjust parts of the tutorial to your own project schema.

#Core concepts

In this guide, you'll work with enumerations, components and basic component fields. Let's look into these concepts:

• Enumerations: an enumeration is a predefined set of values that represents a list of possible options. You can use them to group values within a type.

• Component: a pre-defined set of fields that can be reused across models and content entries. You can think of a component as a flexible, reusable template: you define the fields that will be used inside a component once, and then fill them with different content every time you use it in a content entry.

• Basic component field: a component is a special field type in your Hygraph schema that defines which components of which type can be used in a model. Component fields can be of basic or modular types. A basic component field can only have one component attached to it. You can limit the number of component instances to one, or allow multiple component instances to be added in the content entry.

#What you can do

This guide offers two paths:

• Path 1: Use this guide to create a styled CTA component that you can reuse across different models in your Hygraph projects.
• Path 2: Clone the project that contains the entire CTA cookbook to compare the different CTA configurations without having to clone multiple projects.

#Clone project

We have prepared a project that contains the entire CTA cookbook:

Clone this project

This cookbook contains all the recipes we have so far to create calls to action, so you can compare the different CTA configurations without having to clone multiple projects.

To find this particular recipe in the cookbook project, navigate to the schema and look for "CTA Styled".

This project also contains a demo model that includes all the CTA components in the cookbook as basic component fields, as well as a modular component field that you can use as a CTA type selector.

#Step-by-step guide

Before we can build our Styled CTA component, we need to create other schema elements that we can later add to it.

To make this guide easier to follow, we've divided it in steps for you.

#1. Create a styled button component

We want our CTA to contain a button component that offers styling options, besides the usual URL and label.

We'll start by creating enumerations for size and theme, which will allow us to select how we want the button to look from a dropdown menu.

We'll click + Add next to Enumerations and use the following information:

Styled CTA - Size enumeration

We'll click + Add to save.

Next, we need to add enumeration values. These are the options we will get when using this later on as a dropdown menu.

For every enumeration value, you need to enter a Display name, an API ID, and click Add.

We'll add the following values:

Styled CTA - Size enumeration values

We'll click Add enumeration to save.

Next, we need to create an enumeration for theme selection. We'll repeat the process using the following information:

Once more, we need to add enumeration values. For this example, we'll use two theme options - light and dark.

We'll add the following:

Styled CTA - Theme enumeration values

We'll click Add enumeration to save.

For the second step, we'll create our styled button component. We'll click + Add next to Components and use the following information:

Styled CTA - Button component

We'll click Add component to save. We can now start adding instances to this component.

Let's start with a single line text field, which will be the label of our button. You will find it in the Add fields right sidebar.

We'll click on it to add it, using the following information:

Styled CTA - Button label

We'll click Add to save.

Next, we want to add a slug field, for our button URL. We'll find it on the Add fields sidebar, and add it using this information:

Styled CTA - Button URL

We'll click Add to save.

Now that we've added our basic fields, we can start adding the enumerations we created earlier. We'll find the Enumeration field on the Add fields sidebar, and add it using this information:

Styled CTA - Button size

We'll click Add to save.

We'll repeat the process for our "theme" enumeration:

Styled CTA - Button theme

We'll click Add to save.

We've created a styled button component that contains the basic fields for label and URL, and also offers styling options using dropdown menus.

#2. Create a styled CTA component

Now that we have created the component we want to nest into our styled CTA component, we can start working on this one.

We'll start by creating the component itself, using this information:

Styled CTA component

We'll click Add component to save.

We can now start adding instances to this component. Let's start with a Single line text field, which will be the heading of our CTA.

We'll find it on the Add fields right sidebar, click on it, and use the following information:

Styled CTA component - Heading

We'll click Add to save.

Next, we want to be able to add text to our CTA. To achieve this, we'll add a Rich Text field from the right sidebar, using the following information:

Styled CTA component - Body

We'll click Add to save.

The next step is to add the enumerations we created earlier. When you create schema elements such as components and enumerations, it is normal to reuse them across your schema.

First, we'll add the "size" enumeration. We'll find the Enumeration field on the Add fields sidebar, and add it using this information:

Styled CTA component - Size

We'll click Add to save.

We'll repeat the process for our "theme" enumeration:

Styled CTA component - Theme

We'll click Add to save.

Finally, we'll add a basic component field to include the styled button component that we created in the previous step.

We'll find the Basic component field on the Add fields right sidebar, click on it, and use the following information:

Styled CTA component - Nested button component

We'll click Add to save.

This guide helped you create the schema element yourself. Alternatively, you can clone a project containing all our CTA recipes.

Check out the next document section for that!

#Useful links

• Enumerations
• Components documentation