Header

The following example shows a stripped back example of the website header. It does not include the complete navigation component.

The beta banner is contained within <div class="banner"> and can be removed when no longer required.

Open this Simple header, with optional beta banner and omitting site navigation in a new tab

HTML:

<header class="global-header">
	<span role="status" aria-live="polite"></span>
	<div class="banner">
		<div class="banner__inner l-center">
			<p>This is a new website. <a href="https://github.com/w3c/w3c-website">Give feedback</a> to help us improve it.</p>
		</div>
	</div>
	<nav id="lang-nav" aria-label="Language options">
		<div class="l-center">
			<div class="l-cluster">
				<ul class="clean-list" role="list">
					<li><a href="/ja" hreflang="ja" lang="ja">日本語ホームページ<span class="visuallyhidden" lang="en"> (Japanese website)</span></a></li>
					<li><a href="/zh" hreflang="zh-hans" lang="zh-hans">简体中文首页<span class="visuallyhidden" lang="en"> (Chinese website)</span></a></li>
				</ul>
			</div>
		</div>
	</nav>
	<nav id="global-nav" aria-label="Main">
		<div class="global-nav__inner l-center">
			<a class="logo-link" href="/">
                <span class="logo">
                    <img src="https://www.w3.org/assets/logos/w3c-2025/svg/w3c.svg" alt="W3C" role="img"/>
                </span>
				<span class="visuallyhidden">W3C homepage</span>
			</a>
		</div>
	</nav>
</header>

Considerations

Note the use of the center layout and cluster layout.

Note the inclusion of <span role="status" aria-live="polite"></span>, which is visually hidden. This will hold notifications for Assistive Technology users who have logged into their account. Such messages are injected via JavaScript.

Header

¶Considerations

Considerations