divider

Anchor Divider Prose

Section boundary slide. Dark canvas with a single heading.

Variant

Marks the start of a major section. Use sparingly — every divider is a context switch for the audience. A 30-slide deck typically has 3-5 dividers; more becomes navigation noise.

section-breakagenda-settingwalkthrough

When to use

Major section starts. Marks the boundary between two themed sections of the deck. The dark canvas is a strong context-switch signal — use it when the audience needs to re-orient.
Sparingly. A 30-slide deck typically has 3-5 dividers. More becomes navigation noise; the signal weakens if every third slide is a divider.
With an eyebrow. An inline-code paragraph above the heading stamps a section number or category label. Useful for serialized decks where the audience needs to remember which section they're in.
Light variant for sub-section orientation. The light variant keeps the bright body-slide canvas and centers the heading at h2 weight — a lighter context switch for narrowing focus within a section, between a dark divider and the content slides. (Absorbed the standalone subtopic component on 2026-06-07.)

When not to use

More than five per deck. Each divider is a hard context switch. Too many dilutes the signal and slows the audience. Group related content under fewer sections instead.
Section title that doesn't earn a section. If the next 3-4 slides aren't a coherent unit, the light variant (bright canvas, centered) is the right tool. Reserve the dark divider for genuine section starts.
Header or footer overrides. Don't reinstate _header: or _footer: on a divider. The dark canvas is meant to be uninterrupted; chrome belongs on body slides.

Authoring

<!-- _class: divider -->
<!-- _paginate: false -->
<!-- _header: '' -->
<!-- _footer: '' -->

`Section 01`

## Section name

Slots

Slot	Selector	Required	Description
`heading`	`h2`	yes	Section name.
`eyebrow`	`p > code`	no	Optional section number or category label above the heading.

Anatomy

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│            [dark background]            │
│                                         │
│               SECTION 02                │
│                                         │
│            Section headline             │
│                                         │
│                                         │
│                                         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Variants

`numbered` — Numbered — auto-incrementing section index

Stamps an auto-incrementing section number in the corner. Each divider in the deck increments the counter; closing slides carry an independent counter.

<!-- _class: divider silent numbered -->

`Section 03`

## Inventory

`light` — Light — bright-canvas sub-section break

Drops the dark canvas for the standard bright body-slide background, centers the heading, and shrinks it to h2 weight. Use for mid-section orientation that shouldn't carry the full context-switch weight of a dark divider. Absorbed the standalone subtopic component on 2026-06-07.

<!-- _class: divider light -->

`The Framework · Component 02`

## Before we can score a signal, we have to agree on what one is.