# Announcement bar

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You can add an announcement bar to your online store to display important information about your store.

You can highlight the following information by adding an announcement bar:

* Any shipping delays or regions not accepting international shipments.
* Any new or updated policy pages.
* Any promotions are being offered at this time, such as sales or new gift cards.

<table><thead><tr><th width="287">Setting</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Visibility</td><td><p>Customization of announcement bar visibility in the announcement section is as follows:</p><ul><li>All pages</li><li>All pages except the home page</li><li>Home page only</li><li>Product page only</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Color scheme</td><td><p>In this section, you can change the background and foreground color of a section using the color scheme.</p><ul><li>Scheme 1</li><li>Scheme 2</li><li>Scheme 3</li><li>Scheme 4</li><li>Scheme 5</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Uppercase announcement bar</td><td>Enable this checkbox to uppercase text.</td></tr><tr><td>Allow users to close announcement</td><td>Enable this checkbox to show announcement bar close icon.</td></tr><tr><td>Show gradient text animation effect</td><td>Enable this checkbox to show text in gradient color.</td></tr><tr><td>Enable autoplay</td><td>Enable this checkbox to automatically rotate through the announcement bar text.</td></tr><tr><td>Autoplay interval</td><td>Use the bar to set the auto-rotate time of the text. You can set a minimum of “3” seconds and a maximum of “9” seconds.</td></tr><tr><td>Country/region selector</td><td>By enabling this checkbox, you can see country/region selector in the announcement bar section.</td></tr><tr><td>Language selector</td><td>By enabling this checkbox, you can see Language selector in the announcement bar section.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Add an announcement&#x20;

Only one announcement bar section is available in the theme, but, there can be more than ten blocks in the announcement bar section with which you can add multiple announcement bars. Moreover, In the announcement bar section, you can only add announcement bar blocks.

<table><thead><tr><th width="272">Block</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Icon</td><td>In the section, the icons are given to select. </td></tr><tr><td>Text</td><td>Enter text to display as a announcement bar text on the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Button options</td><td>B<strong>utton label</strong><br>Use "Button label" to add a label to the Button in the section.<br><br><strong>Button link</strong><br>Use "Button link" to add a link to the Button in the section.<br><br><strong>Enable arrow</strong><br>By enabling this checkbox, you can show arrow icon.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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