Sygnal Attributes v5

Webflow Tools that Make Your Site Better

SA5 is the lastest version of Sygnal's Webflow Utilities Library. The tools here are 100% free, 100% open-source, and 100% designed for Webflow.

Libraries

SA5 is divided into a series of individual libraries.

Our Most Popular Libs

Library	Purpose	Features
SA5 HTML	A huge range of page-modification capabilities	Dynamic attributes Truncate text w/ ellipses Advanced sorting Advanced filtering Encoded Emails Hide Sections w/ Empty Collection Lists and much more...
SA5 User Accounts	Get logged in user info to personalize your site and improve user experience. Custom-route on login.	User name Email Custom fields Access groups
SA5 Rich Text	Add capabilities to Webflow's Rich Text Block	Responsive inline images
SA5 Layout	Advanced, dynamic layouts for your Webflow pages	Restructure your collection lists entirely into groups Create dynamic tabs from the CMS Overcome Webflow's 5-nested-item limit
SA5 Forms	Easily replace Webflow's native form handler with your choice of 3rd party handlers like Basin, Zapier, Make, and n8n.	Eliminate SPAM Trigger automations
SA5 Modals	Create powerful, consistent modals with full design control and zero interactions
SA5 Hotkeys	Define custom hotkeys to trigger your scripts, page actions and navigation
SA5 URL	Special URL enhancement tools	Pass-through your query params from one page to another for referer tracking Target all external links to a new tab
SA5 Video	Add capabilities to your video elements	Youtube Hide related videos Background Video poster image Video player
SA5 Elements	Control Webflow's elements with code, and receive events when they change	Tabs Sliders Buttons Dropdown menus Lightboxes Radio buttons Accordions Lotties Locale Switcher
SA5 Format	Format numbers and currencies & dates specially	Locale-specific formatting
SA5 Track	Special tracking using cookies and webStorage
SA5 Select Custom	Custom Select element based on Finsweet's attribute of the same name. Adds some dynamic update capabilities

Specialized Use / Advanced Libs;

Library	Purpose	Features
SA5 Core	Central to SA5, but has a few tricks up its sleeve	Hide objects in the designer and make them visible in the published site
SA5 Cache	Handle high-latency tasks such as content-fetching with a built-in caching layer.	Allows complex calculations and slow data retrievals to easily cache. Code your update directly to the cache layer and it will "lazy load" the content when needed.
SA5 Embeds	Embed external content into your blog posts and pages.	Tables from Google Docs
SA5 Social Share	Adds Email as a social share option. Designed to work in conjunction with Finsweet's Social Share component.	Adds share-to-email
SA5 Analytics	Adds some analytics capabilities to your site using attributes.	GTM dataLayer events UTM Tracking Rel Attributes A/B testing
SA5 Data	Extract CMS data into JS objects from your collection lists, to power your custom code and calculations.	Extract data from collection lists into datasources Extract querystring data, and URL data Cookies and webStorage Data-bind these pieces of information to text elements and form inputs
SA5 404	Improve your 404 pages	Smart search trigger Webflow site search based on the Path the user was looking for
SA5 Countup	Animated count up to a set value. Triggers on scroll-into-view
SA5 UI	Special UI components	5-star ratings component ( display only )
SA5 Demo	Add special capabilities to your Webflow demo sites, such as links to the correct readonly link page.
SA5 Commerce	Simple commerce solutions for one-off purchases.	Paypal Windcave
SA5 Trigger	Custom trigger items and interactions from text links and buttons.	Trigger interactions, such as pop-ups and modals from a link Support CMS-driven scenarios

Experimental Libraries & Features 🧪

These are libraries we're experimenting with.

Now you can sponsor the development of those features, and they will be added to the library for everyone to use.

Library	Purpose	Features
SA5 Calc 🧪	Calculate & sum items
SA5 SEO 🧪	Some SEO tools	Noindex Nofollow JSON-LD
SA5 Fixup 🧪	Fix a few things in Webflow editor and published sites.
SA5 Logic 🧪	Add logic capabilities using attributes, for conditional visibility and page structuring	If Switch
SA5 Effects 🧪	Experimental effects	Depthmap ( fake 3d )
SA5 State 🧪	State management
SA5 Booking 🧪	Tag trigger elements easily to invoke 3rd party booking systems with the correct service, location, category, and staff member.	GetTimely SimplyBook
SA5 Localization 🧪	Various localization features
SA5 Detect 🧪	Detect and manipulate your page depending on how
SA5 Table	Add HTML tables

We've also begun including our dev team and roadmap notes in these docs so that they are available for community comment and discussion. You can expand most features for a Future notes document.

Feature Requests

• Share your ideas in SA5's forum.

• If you'd like a specific feature built that you already see on our design board here, you can sponsor a feature. Features marked with

2023 Review of SA5's Capabilities

Navigating the Docs

• Documentation is organized by library

• At the top of most libraries, you'll two important pages-

  • 🔍 About this Library, which gives you an overview of the capabilities

  • 🚀 Quick Start, which gives you the library code you need

• Within each library the features are grouped separately

• A lot of features have subpages- make sure to click the > to expand those sections

• 🧪 indicates EXPERIMENTAL items, which are not yet available

• 📝 indicates NOTES, which are primarily for the dev team

• ▶️ indicates VIDEO TUTORIALS, which we're just beginning to add

What’s new in v5?

The tech changes we've made in v5 open the doors to a lot of new capabilities.

If you are using v4, none of these changes will affect your current websites. Since all of our CDN URLs are version-locked, you’ll continue to use the same libraries you are using now until you upgrade to the newer versions, someday, if you want to.

The v5 Tech Stack

• We’ve changing from a JavaScript ES6 codebase to TypeScript

• We’ve changed fully from CSS to SASS.

• We’ve eliminating all use of jQuery in the libraries.

• We’ve separated classes through the library into discrete source files

• We’ve bundled the distributed files differently for even greater efficiency

• We've integrated debugging features

We’re excited about the tremendous capabilities the new stack gives us.

Switching to v5

If you choose to switch to the upgraded v5 libraries at some point, you’ll see a few minor integration changes;

Javascript <script> elements;

• Will be moved from the before-/body section to the before-/head section of your pages and site-wide code settings.

• The library URLs will change to point at the /dist/ path, rather than the /src/ path.

• You'll also notice that the type=module is dropped

CSS <link> elements will essentially remain unchanged, and will continue to point to /dist/css/

All of this is covered in the docs for each feature, and we’ll update the docs as each library is migrated, so that you can upgrade them if you choose to.

What about attribute or code changes?

You can simply reference the new libraries with no changes to your custom attributes or existing features- and you’ll still get the enhanced features and performance benefits.

Will I need to upgrade to v5 eventually?

Nope! If you’re happy with things as they are and don’t need any of the new features, you don’t need to change a thing. v4 will continue to run indefinitely.