Grouping the steps into sections
So far, you have seen that different steps are shown in the order they are inserted, but they are rendered in a similar manner—that is, with the same color. Sometimes, it may make more sense to group some of the related steps together into sections. Each section would act as a parent of the different steps under it and represent a specific phase in the user journey. It could also be used to tag the different steps to a specific category type.
In Mermaid, you define a section by using the section
keyword. The syntax of adding a section is quite simple, as we can see here:
section SECTION_NAME
Here, you start on a new line with the section
keyword, followed by a SECTION_NAME
string. The section name should be an alphanumeric string value, and everything after the section
keyword is treated as SECTION_NAME
, which will be displayed as the title of the section.
To link a step under a specific section, simply define that step after the...