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Category Card Grid

Responsive grid of category tiles for entry pages and category browsing.

Overview

CategoryCardGrid renders a responsive grid of LinkTiles for category navigation on home and landing pages. The variant prop picks the per-tile layout:

variantWhen to use
'basic'Standard category tile for general grids.
'compact'Dense layouts where many categories share the page.
'compact-bordered'Compact tile with a border for stronger visual separation on busy backgrounds.
'big'Hero placements where imagery carries the page.

Drive the tiles from the nodes prop, or place CategoryCard children in the default slot (the slot wins when both are present). The block can also render an optional heading, caption, and subline through its text-group props.

Auto-import tag: <LCategoryCardGrid>.

Key Business & UX Benefits

  • Strong category browsing entry points raise click-through to listing pages, the first conversion step for shoppers who arrive without a specific product in mind.
  • Four variants from compact to hero scale gracefully from dense subcategory pages to brand-led landing pages, all from one component.
  • A heading, subline, and caption sit above the grid so editors can frame a section without a separate block.
  • Default slot accepts custom CategoryCard children when a tile needs more than the nodes shape offers.
Pro-Tip from Larry: Use variant="big" on hero placements where imagery does the work; reach for compact inside dense category lists.

Usage

LCategoryCardGrid

Feature List

  • Four variants ('basic', 'compact', 'compact-bordered', 'big') for everything from dense subcategory grids to hero landing pages
  • nodes prop drives the tiles, or pass CategoryCard children in the default slot when a tile needs more than the node shape
  • Heading, subline, and caption render above the grid for editor-driven section framing
  • Built on LinkTile so each category card carries its own accessible link target and focus state
  • Responsive column logic keeps tiles aligned across breakpoints, so the grid feels intentional from phone to desktop
  • Aliases preserve legacy URL paths (inpagenavigationbasicgrid, biggrid, compactgrid) so existing campaigns keep working

API Reference

PropDefaultType
variantrequired
nodes[]

Optional data-driven nodes. Ignored when the default slot has content.

captionstring
captionColorstring
headingstring
headingTag
headingColorstring
sublinestring
sublineColorstring
textAlignmentleft"left" | "center" | "right"
columnCount

Optional column count override — applies to compact, compact-bordered, basic variants

SlotType
defaultany

Slot for CategoryCard children (BlockCategoryCard instances). Takes precedence over nodes.

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