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Strip
A horizontal row of category buttons or icons (like the DirectoryThe public catalog of guides, tools, stack, games, creators, and articles on Botski. category strip).
Why this word exists
A strip is the horizontal cousin of a railA vertical side column on a page (left rail, sticky rail) that holds nav or tools beside the main content.: a row of category buttons or icons you scan left to right. Botski shop talk uses it for the DirectoryThe public catalog of guides, tools, stack, games, creators, and articles on Botski. category strip so nobody says that bar thing.
Strip is chromeThe frame around the content: header, footer, badges, and other permanent UI, not the article itself. and navigation, not content. It does not invent listings; it only points at shelves that already exist.
Where you will meet it
You meet strip in DirectoryThe public catalog of guides, tools, stack, games, creators, and articles on Botski. UI notes and Keep eye-checks after a tipThe tip is the newest saved snapshot on a branch, the one a reviewer can check out. that touches category buttons.
Examples
- The DirectoryThe public catalog of guides, tools, stack, games, creators, and articles on Botski. category strip lets you jump from Guides to Tools without scrolling the whole catalog.
- A tipThe tip is the newest saved snapshot on a branch, the one a reviewer can check out. changes strip icon contrastHow different two colors look next to each other — needed so white icons stay readable on category bars.; Rich does a hard-refreshForce the browser to reload files from the server, not from its cache, so you see the newest tip. to see the new plateA flat colored panel behind a nav item or control — on Botski, the beige, tan, or gray nav plates. colors.
- Soft-modA careful site change that softens or gates a feature without a big redesign — often behind honesty rules. can gate a strip button without redesigning the whole DirectoryThe public catalog of guides, tools, stack, games, creators, and articles on Botski..
Fetched 2026-09-23 CT.