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The bar background is fully opaque, so a 149 blur behind it is invisible, yet it forces the browser to re-blur the 150 page content on every scroll frame â the main cause of janky/"sticky" 151 scrolling. Removing it makes scrolling smooth with zero visual change. */ 152 box-shadow: 0 2px 12px rgba(15, 24, 37, 0.18); 153 } 154 /* Lime-green accent hairline at top â picks up the "UK" in the logo */ 155 .cuk-nav-bar::before { 156 content: ""; 157 position: absolute; 158 inset: 0 0 auto 0; 159 height: 2px; 160 background: linear-gradient(90deg, 161 transparent 0%, 162 var(--cuk-logo-green) 30%, 163 var(--cuk-logo-green) 70%, 164 transparent 100%); 165 opacity: 0.85; 166 } 167 168 .cuk-nav-row { 169 display: flex; 170 align-items: stretch; 171 justify-content: space-between; 172 gap: 16px; 173 min-width: 0; 174 min-height: 52px; 175 } 176 .cuk-nav-row > :first-child { 177 min-width: 0; 178 flex: 1 1 auto; 179 display: flex; 180 align-items: stretch; 181 /* Fail-safe: nav items have white-space:nowrap and flex-shrink:0, so they 182 can't compress when the viewport is tight. Without this, overflowing 183 items render visually on top of the auth widget to the right. The 184 breakpoint rules below shrink the auth widget early enough that this 185 clip should never actually fire on real viewports, but it guards 186 against contextual-links UI and zoomed-text edge cases. */ 187 overflow: hidden; 188 } 189 190 /* Tame the Bootstrap .row negative margins on the region wrapper */ 191 .cuk-nav-bar .region-navigation, 192 .cuk-nav-bar .region.region-navigation { 193 margin: 0; 194 width: 100%; 195 } 196 .cuk-nav-bar .block-menu, 197 .cuk-nav-bar #block-mainnavigation { 198 width: 100%; 199 margin: 0; 200 } 201 202 /* Menu list + items 203 Pre-existing theme (scss/_header.scss â style.css) forces UPPERCASE, 204 a 46px line-height, a grey hover background, and tight padding. We 205 beat it with high-specificity selectors + !important on the key 206 declarations. Without touching the compiled stylesheet. */ 207 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul, 208 .cuk-nav-bar .navbar-nav { 209 display: flex !important; 210 flex-wrap: nowrap; 211 align-items: stretch !important; 212 /* Auth widget removed: spread the menu items evenly across the full nav 213 width instead of bunching them on the left with empty space on the right. */ 214 justify-content: space-between !important; 215 width: 100%; 216 gap: 2px; 217 margin: 0 !important; 218 /* Small symmetric side gutters; space-between handles the distribution. */ 219 padding: 0 8px !important; 220 list-style: none; 221 text-transform: none !important; 222 } 223 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li, 224 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-item { 225 display: flex; 226 align-items: stretch; 227 flex: 0 0 auto !important; 228 border: 0 !important; 229 } 230 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li a, 231 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link { 232 position: relative; 233 display: inline-flex !important;
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265 transition: transform 0.22s cubic-bezier(.2, .6, .2, 1); 266 } 267 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li a:hover, 268 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li a:focus, 269 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li a.is-active, 270 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link:hover, 271 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link:focus, 272 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link.is-active { 273 color: var(--cuk-nav-text-hover) !important; 274 background: transparent !important; 275 text-decoration: none !important; 276 } 277 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li a:hover::after, 278 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li a:focus::after, 279 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul li a.is-active::after, 280 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link:hover::after, 281 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link:focus::after, 282 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link.is-active::after { 283 transform: scaleX(1); 284 } 285 286 /* ----------- AUTH WIDGET (desktop) --------------------------------------- */ 287 .cuk-auth-desktop { 288 display: flex; 289 align-items: center; 290 gap: 6px; 291 flex-shrink: 0; 292 font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, sans-serif; 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331 border: 1.5px solid var(--cuk-logo-green); 332 transition: all 0.15s ease; 333 display: inline-flex; 334 align-items: center; 335 font-size: 13.5px; 336 letter-spacing: 0.15px; 337 white-space: nowrap; 338 } 339 .cuk-auth-btn:hover, 340 .cuk-auth-btn:focus { 341 background: var(--cuk-logo-green-dark); 342 border-color: var(--cuk-logo-green-dark); 343 color: var(--cuk-logo-navy); 344 text-decoration: none; 345 transform: translateY(-1px); 346 box-shadow: 0 6px 16px var(--cuk-logo-green-glow); 347 } 348 .cuk-auth-avatar { 349 width: 24px; 350 height: 24px; 351 border-radius: 50%; 352 background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(--cuk-logo-green) 0%, var(--cuk-logo-green-dark) 100%); 353 color: var(--cuk-logo-navy); 354 display: inline-flex; 355 align-items: center; 356 justify-content: center; 357 font-size: 11px; 358 font-weight: 800; 359 flex-shrink: 0; 360 letter-spacing: 0; 361 } 362 363 /* ----------- MOBILE OFFCANVAS ------------------------------------------- */ 364 .offcanvas-start { 365 border-right: 1px solid #eef0f4; 366 } 367 .offcanvas-header { 368 border-bottom: 1px solid #eef0f4; 369 padding: 16px 20px; 370 } 371 .offcanvas-header img { 372 max-height: 40px; 373 width: auto; 374 } 375 .offcanvas-body { 376 padding: 20px; 377 } 378 379 .cuk-auth-mobile { 380 display: flex; 381 flex-direction: column; 382 gap: 10px; 383 margin: 0 0 20px; 384 padding: 0 0 20px; 385 border-bottom: 1px solid #eef0f4; 386 } 387 .cuk-auth-mobile-primary { 388 background: var(--cuk-brand-navy); 389 color: #fff; 390 padding: 13px 18px; 391 border-radius: 10px; 392 text-decoration: none; 393 font-weight: 600; 394 font-size: 15px; 395 text-align: center; 396 border: 1.5px solid var(--cuk-brand-navy); 397 display: inline-flex; 398 align-items: center; 399 justify-content: center; 400 gap: 10px; 401 } 402 .cuk-auth-mobile-primary:hover, 403 .cuk-auth-mobile-primary:focus { 404 background: var(--cuk-brand-navy-dark); 405 border-color: var(--cuk-brand-navy-dark); 406 color: #fff; 407 text-decoration: none; 408 } 409 .cuk-auth-mobile-primary .cuk-auth-avatar { 410 background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2); 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452 color: var(--cuk-brand-navy); 453 text-decoration: none; 454 } 455 456 /* Mobile hamburger refinement */ 457 .navbar-toggler { 458 border: 1px solid #e2e6ed; 459 border-radius: 8px; 460 padding: 6px 9px; 461 } 462 .navbar-toggler:focus { box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px var(--cuk-logo-green-glow); } 463 464 /* Logout SVG icon â same colour as the text it replaces */ 465 .cuk-auth-icon { 466 flex-shrink: 0; 467 opacity: 0.85; 468 transition: opacity 0.15s ease; 469 } 470 .cuk-auth-link--logout:hover .cuk-auth-icon, 471 .cuk-auth-link--logout:focus .cuk-auth-icon { opacity: 1; } 472 473 /* ---------- Responsive squeeze for the auth widget ---------- 474 * 475 * The desktop nav has two siblings competing for the same row: 476 * 1. The primary menu (Mortgages, Insurance, â¦, Awards) ââ flex: 1 477 * 2. The auth widget (avatar + "My ContractorUK" + "Log out") 478 * 479 * With 10 menu items the row is wide. The old breakpoints (1399 / 1279) 480 * kicked in too late and Awards collided with the avatar between 481 * roughly 1400â1500px. We now defuse this earlier and tighten the 482 * menu padding across the full d-xl range: 483 * 484 * < 1599px â drop the visible "Log out" text, keep the door-icon 485 * (still a real link, just compact). 486 * < 1499px â drop the "My ContractorUK" text, keep just the avatar 487 * circle (with title= + aria-label= so the affordance 488 * survives for SR users and tooltip-on-hover). 489 * 1200â1499px â tighten paddings and the menu font-size so 10 items 490 * comfortably fit beside the avatar. 491 * 492 * The mobile breakpoint (< 1200px on this nav) collapses everything 493 * to the offcanvas which already uses the full text labels, so this 494 * only affects the d-xl desktop range. 495 */ 496 @media (max-width: 1599px) { 497 .cuk-auth-link--logout .cuk-auth-link-text { display: none; } 498 .cuk-auth-link--logout { padding: 7px 9px; } 499 } 500 @media (max-width: 1499px) { 501 .cuk-auth-link--dash .cuk-auth-link-text { display: none; } 502 .cuk-auth-link--dash { padding: 5px 7px; gap: 0; } 503 } 504 @media (min-width: 1200px) and (max-width: 1499px) { 505 .cuk-nav-bar .menu--main > ul, 506 .cuk-nav-bar .navbar-nav { padding-left: 12px !important; } 507 .cuk-nav-bar .nav-link { padding: 0 9px !important; font-size: 13px !important; } 508 .cuk-auth-desktop { padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 4px; gap: 4px; } 509 .cuk-auth-link { padding: 6px 8px; } 510 } 511 512 @media print { 513 .cuk-nav-bar, .cuk-auth-desktop, .cuk-auth-mobile { display: none; } 514 } 515 516 /* ========================================================================= 517 ContractorUK â modernised footer (matches the new top nav) 518 ========================================================================= */ 519 .cuk-footer { 520 position: relative; 521 background: var(--cuk-nav-bg) !important; 522 color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.72); 523 padding: 36px 0 28px; 524 border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.08); 525 } 526 /* Lime-green accent line at the very top, mirrors the nav */ 527 .cuk-footer::before { 528 content: ""; 529 position: absolute; 530 inset: 0 0 auto 0; 531 height: 2px; 532 background: linear-gradient(90deg, 533 transparent 0%, 534 var(--cuk-logo-green) 30%, 535 var(--cuk-logo-green) 70%, 536 transparent 100%); 537 opacity: 0.65; 538 } 539 540 .cuk-footer a { 541 color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78) !important; 542 text-decoration: none !important; 543 transition: color 0.15s ease; 544 } 545 .cuk-footer a:hover, 546 .cuk-footer a:focus { 547 color: #ffffff !important; 548 text-decoration: none !important; 549 } 550 551 /* ----------- Footer logo (sits above the social links) ----------------- */ 552 .cuk-footer-col--social { 553 display: flex; 554 flex-direction: column; 555 align-items: flex-start; 556 gap: 14px; 557 } 558 .cuk-footer-logo { 559 display: inline-flex !important;
560 align-items: center; 561 gap: 12px; 562 padding: 0 !important; 563 border: 0 !important; 564 border-radius: 0 !important; 565 line-height: 1; 566 color: #ffffff; 567 text-decoration: none; 568 opacity: 0.94; 569 transition: opacity 0.15s ease; 570 } 571 .cuk-footer-logo:hover, 572 .cuk-footer-logo:focus { opacity: 1; background: transparent !important; } 573 .cuk-footer-logo-img { 574 height: 40px; 575 width: auto; 576 display: block; 577 flex: 0 0 auto; 578 } 579 580 /* ----------- Social column (left) --------------------------------------- */ 581 .cuk-footer-col--social ul, 582 .cuk-footer-col--social .menu, 583 .cuk-footer-col--social .nav { 584 display: flex !important; 585 flex-wrap: wrap; 586 gap: 8px; 587 list-style: none !important; 588 padding: 0 !important; 589 margin: 0 !important; 590 align-items: center; 591 } 592 .cuk-footer-col--social li { 593 list-style: none !important; 594 margin: 0 !important; 595 padding: 0 !important; 596 } 597 .cuk-footer-col--social a { 598 display: inline-flex; 599 align-items: center; 600 gap: 6px; 601 padding: 8px 12px; 602 border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12); 603 border-radius: 999px; 604 font-size: 13px; 605 font-weight: 500; 606 transition: background 0.15s ease, border-color 0.15s ease, color 0.15s ease; 607 } 608 .cuk-footer-col--social a:hover, 609 .cuk-footer-col--social a:focus { 610 background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06); 611 border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); 612 } 613 614 /* ----------- Footer menu column (centre) -------------------------------- */ 615 .cuk-footer-col--menu nav, 616 .cuk-footer-col--menu .menu--footer, 617 .cuk-footer-col--menu .menu, 618 .cuk-footer-col--menu ul { 619 display: flex !important; 620 flex-wrap: wrap; 621 justify-content: center; 622 gap: 4px 6px; 623 list-style: none !important; 624 padding: 0 !important; 625 margin: 0 !important; 626 } 627 .cuk-footer-col--menu li { list-style: none !important; margin: 0 !important; } 628 .cuk-footer-col--menu a { 629 display: inline-block; 630 padding: 8px 14px; 631 border-radius: 6px; 632 font-size: 13.5px; 633 font-weight: 500; 634 letter-spacing: 0.2px; 635 text-transform: none !important; 636 transition: background 0.15s ease, color 0.15s ease; 637 } 638 .cuk-footer-col--menu a:hover, 639 .cuk-footer-col--menu a:focus { 640 background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06); 641 color: #fff !important; 642 } 643 644 /* ----------- Brand column (right) --------------------------------------- */ 645 .cuk-footer-col--brand { 646 font-size: 12.5px; 647 color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); 648 line-height: 1.6; 649 } 650 .cuk-footer-col--brand img { 651 max-height: 38px; 652 width: auto; 653 margin-bottom: 8px; 654 opacity: 0.95; 655 filter: brightness(1.05); 656 } 657 .cuk-footer-col--brand .footer-logo { 658 /* Override the SCSS background-image trick â the real <img> already renders */ 659 background: none !important; 660 text-indent: 0 !important; 661 width: auto !important; 662 height: auto !important; 663 } 664 665 /* ----------- Mobile (<992px): stack neatly, recentre ------------------- */ 666 @media (max-width: 991.98px) { 667 .cuk-footer { padding: 28px 0 24px; text-align: center; } 668 .cuk-footer-col--social { 669 align-items: center; 670 } 671 .cuk-footer-col--social ul, 672 .cuk-footer-col--social .menu, 673 .cuk-footer-col--social .nav { justify-content: center; } 674 .cuk-footer-col--brand { text-align: center !important; } 675 .cuk-footer-logo img { max-height: 36px; } 676 } 677 678 /* Service-card / icon-grid theming lives in the landing-page body now 679 (paragraph entity 2 â field_landpage_body). Keeping this block in the 680 theme just used to fight those styles with !important overrides. */ 681 682 /* ========================================================================= 683 ContractorUK â 404 / 403 notice banner 684 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 685 Shown above the homepage when a missing/forbidden URL is served as the 686 custom error page, so visitors know the requested page doesn't exist 687 instead of seeing a silent "fake" homepage. 688 ========================================================================= */ 689 .cuk-error-banner { 690 background: #fff8ec; 691 border-top: 3px solid #f59e0b; 692 border-bottom: 1px solid #f1d6a3; 693 } 694 .cuk-error-banner__inner { 695 display: flex; 696 align-items: center; 697 gap: 16px; 698 padding: 14px 0; 699 } 700 .cuk-error-banner__icon { 701 flex: 0 0 auto; 702 width: 42px; 703 height: 42px; 704 display: inline-flex; 705 align-items: center; 706 justify-content: center; 707 border-radius: 50%; 708 background: #fdebcb; 709 color: #b45309; 710 } 711 .cuk-error-banner__text { 712 flex: 1 1 auto; 713 min-width: 0; 714 line-height: 1.45; 715 } 716 .cuk-error-banner__title { 717 display: block; 718 font-size: 15px; 719 font-weight: 700; 720 color: #1f2c3d; 721 margin-bottom: 1px; 722 } 723 .cuk-error-banner__msg { 724 font-size: 13.5px; 725 color: #6b5836; 726 } 727 .cuk-error-banner__path { 728 color: #8a6d3b; 729 font-style: italic; 730 word-break: break-all; 731 } 732 .cuk-error-banner__cta { 733 flex: 0 0 auto; 734 background: var(--cuk-logo-navy, #1f2c3d); 735 color: #fff !important; 736 padding: 9px 16px; 737 border-radius: 8px; 738 font-size: 13.5px; 739 font-weight: 600; 740 text-decoration: none !important; 741 white-space: nowrap; 742 transition: background 0.15s ease, transform 0.15s ease; 743 } 744 .cuk-error-banner__cta:hover, 745 .cuk-error-banner__cta:focus { 746 background: var(--cuk-logo-navy-dark, #16202e); 747 color: #fff !important; 748 transform: translateY(-1px); 749 } 750 @media (max-width: 575.98px) { 751 .cuk-error-banner__inner { flex-wrap: wrap; } 752 .cuk-error-banner__icon { width: 36px; height: 36px; } 753 .cuk-error-banner__cta { width: 100%; text-align: center; } 754 } 755 756 /* ----------- MOBILE MENU CLEAN-UP (6 Aug 2026) --------------------------
757 One menu, one row style, search first. The panel used to stack the 758 main nav above a second block that carried its own search and a 759 48-item site nav â 58 links, 4 duplicated, two visual languages. */ 760 .offcanvas-body { 761 display: flex; 762 flex-direction: column; 763 padding: 16px 18px 28px; 764 } 765 .offcanvas-body .cuk-auth-mobile { order: 1; margin-bottom: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; } 766 /* Search + site nav first: with 48 destinations, search is the fastest 767 route to any of them. */ 768 .offcanvas-body .region-offcanvas { order: 2; } 769 .offcanvas-body .region-navigation { order: 3; margin-top: 22px; } 770 771 /* The commercial links get a label instead of sitting unexplained under 772 the site nav. */ 773 .offcanvas-body .region-navigation::before { 774 content: "Services"; 775 display: block; 776 margin: 0 0 6px 2px; 777 font-size: 10.5px; 778 font-weight: 700; 779 letter-spacing: .13em; 780 text-transform: uppercase; 781 color: #94a3b8; 782 } 783 784 /* One row style across both lists â the uppercase treatment shouted and 785 matched nothing else on the site. */ 786 .offcanvas-body .navbar-nav .nav-link { 787 padding: 12px 8px; 788 font-size: 14.5px; 789 font-weight: 500; 790 text-transform: none; 791 letter-spacing: 0; 792 color: #22303f; 793 border-radius: 8px; 794 border-bottom: 1px solid #f1f5f9; 795 } 796 .offcanvas-body .navbar-nav .nav-item:last-child .nav-link { border-bottom: 0; } 797 798 /* Four links appeared in both lists; keep the ones that sit with the 799 rest of the site nav. */ 800 .offcanvas-body .region-navigation a[href*="contract_jobs"], 801 .offcanvas-body .region-navigation a[href*="contractor_accountants"], 802 .offcanvas-body .region-navigation a[href*="contractor_pensions_advice"], 803 .offcanvas-body .region-navigation a[href*="umbrella_companies"] { 804 display: none; 805 } 806 807 /* The site-nav block was styled as a floating card inside a panel that 808 is already a card. */ 809 /* The block ships its own card styling; inside a panel that is already 810 a card it just draws a box around a box. */ 811 .offcanvas-body .cuk-sidebar-block { 812 background: transparent !important; 813 border: 0 !important; 814 box-shadow: none !important; 815 padding: 0 !important; 816 margin: 0 !important; 817 } 818 .offcanvas-body .search-section { margin: 0 0 14px; } 819 .offcanvas-body .search-header { display: none; } 820 .offcanvas-body .search-form input.search-input { 821 height: 44px; 822 font-size: 15px; 823 border-radius: 10px; 824 } 825 .offcanvas-body .modern-sidebar .sidebar-nav-list { gap: 0; } 826 .offcanvas-body .modern-sidebar .nav-item > a { 827 padding: 11px 8px; 828 font-size: 14.5px; 829 border-bottom: 1px solid #f1f5f9; 830 border-radius: 8px; 831 } 832 .offcanvas-body .modern-sidebar .nav-icon { width: 19px; height: 19px; } 833 834 /* The panel stopped short of the screen edge, leaving a strip of page 835 showing behind it. */ 836 .offcanvas-start { width: min(88vw, 380px); } 837</style> 838 839<div id="sb-site" class="body-inner cuk-jobs-canvas"> 840 841 <header role="banner" class="site-header navbar navbar-expand-xl navbar-light bg-white border-bottom"> 842 <div class="container d-block"> 843 <div class="row"> 844 <div class="col-9 col-lg-4 d-flex align-items-center"> 845 <a class="navbar-brand" href="/" title="Contractor UK" rel="home"> 846 <img class="img-fluid" src="/themes/custom/cuk_bs/logo.png?v=20260711e" alt="Contractor UK" width="460"> 847 </a> 848 </div> 849 <div class="col-3 d-lg-none d-flex align-items-center justify-content-end"> 850 <button 851 class="navbar-toggler" 852 type="button" 853 data-bs-toggle="offcanvas" 854 data-bs-target="#mobileMenu" 855 aria-controls="mobileMenu"> 856 <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span> 857 </button> 858 </div> 859 <div class="col-12 col-lg-8 text-center text-lg-end"> 860 <div id="block-homepageleaderboard" class="block-content-basic block block-block-content block-block-contentdd5e7a98-51a2-4e3a-8e69-2c0e261f15e2"> 861 862 863 <div class="content"> 864 865 <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> 866 <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> 867 <div class="field__item"><style> 868.top-banner-simple { 869 padding: 0; 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