Horizontal Nav

Description

Robust Admin provides flexible horizontal navigation component, which allows you to modify navigation colors, appearance of different types of content, components placement etc. This page contain all navigation styling options.

CSS Classes

All this functionality is available by setting proper classes to the horizontal navigation components and navigation itself. Below table contain all available classes that can be used with the navigation:

All these options can be set via following classes:

Classes Description
.navbar-fixed To create horizontal fixed navigation, you need to add .navbar-fixed class in navigation <div> tag. Fore more information please check horizontal-nav-fixed.html
.navbar-flipped To create horizontal flipped navigation, you need to add .navbar-flipped class in navigation <div> tag. Fore more information please check horizontal-nav-flipped.html
.navbar-light To create light horizontal navigation, you need to add .navbar-light class in navigation <div> tag. Fore more information please check horizontal-nav-light.html
.navbar-dark To create dark horizontal navigation, you need to add .navbar-dark class in navigation <div> tag. Fore more information please check horizontal-nav-dark.html
.navbar-without-dd-arrow To remove the horizontal navigation dropdown arrow, you need to add .navbar-without-dd-arrow class in navigation <div> tag. This navigation class is optional. Fore more information please check horizontal-nav-no-dropdown.html
.navbar-icon-right To create horizontal navigation with right side icons, you need to add .navbar-icon-right class in navigation <div> tag. This navigation class is optional. Fore more information please check horizontal-nav-right-side-icons.html
.navbar-border Add horizontal navigation border bottom by adding .navbar-border class in navbar <nav> tag. This navigation class is optional.
.navbar-shadow Add horizontal navigation shadow by adding .navbar-shadow class in navbar <nav> tag. This navigation class is optional.
.disabled To disabled horizontal navigation menu link, you need to add .disabled class in navigation <li> tag. This navigation class is optional. Fore more information please check horizontal-nav-disabled.html

HTML Markup

This section contains HTML Markup to demonstrate horizontal navigation styling options. This markup define where to add css classes to customize navigation as per your requirements.

  • Line no 12 (Navigation position options): Contain the .navbar-fixed class to set navigation position fixed, here you can use any one class from .navbar-fixed & .navbar-static.
  • Line no 12 (Navigation color options): Contain the .navbar-dark class to set navigation color dark, here you can use any one class from .navbar-light & .navbar-dark.
  • Line no 12: The rest of the navigation classes like .navbar-icon-right, .navbar-border & .navbar-shadow are optional and cab be used on your custom requirements.
        
            <!DOCTYPE html>
              <html lang="en">
                <head></head>
                <body data-menu="vertical-menu" class="vertical-layout vertical-menu 2-column menu-expanded">

                  <!-- navbar-fixed-top-->
                  <nav role="navigation" class="header-navbar navbar navbar-with-menu navbar-fixed-top navbar-dark navbar-shadow navbar-border">
                      ...
                  </nav>

                  <!-- BEGIN Horizontal Navigation-->
                  <div role="navigation" data-menu="menu-wrapper" class="header-navbar navbar navbar-horizontal navbar-light navbar-border navbar-without-dd-arrow"">
                      ...
                  </div>
                  <!-- END Horizontal Navigation-->

                  <!-- BEGIN Content-->
                  <div class="content robust-content container-fluid">
                      <div class="content-wrapper">
                          <!-- content header-->
                          <div class="content-header row">
                              ...
                          </div>
                          <!-- content header-->

                          <!-- content body-->
                          <div class="content-body">
                              ...
                          </div>
                          <!-- content body-->

                      </div>
                  </div>
                  <!-- END Content-->

                  <!-- START FOOTER DARK-->
                  <footer class="footer footer-dark">
                      ...
                  </footer>
                  <!-- START FOOTER DARK-->

                </body>
              </html>
        
        

JADE Configuration

Robust Admin use JADE as template engine to generate pages and whole template quickly using node js, for getting start with JADE usage & template generating process please refer template documentation.

JADE Variables

This table contains required JADE variables to generate horizontal navigation with styling options.

Variable Value Description
headerCustom 'navbar-fixed' To set the horizontal navigation position fixed, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-fixed' in headerConfig block.
headerCustom 'navbar-static' To set the horizontal navigation position static, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-static' in headerConfig block.
headerCustom 'navbar-light' To set the horizontal navigation color light, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-light' in headerConfig block.
headerCustom 'navbar-dark' To set the horizontal navigation color dark, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-dark' in headerConfig block.
headerCustom 'navbar-without-dd-arrow' To remove the horizontal navigation dropdown arrow, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-without-dd-arrow' in headerConfig block.
headerCustom 'navbar-icon-right' To create horizontal navigation with right side icons, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-icon-right' in headerConfig block.
headerCustom 'navbar-border' To create horizontal bordered navigation, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-border' in headerConfig block.
headerCustom 'navbar-shadow' You can also apply horizontal navigation shadow, use headerCustom variable value as 'navbar-light' in headerConfig block.
JADE Code

Use following JADE code to generate page or template having vertical light navigation.

  • Line no 20-21: headerConfig block has a headerCustom variable, it contains navigation specific classes shown in above JADE Configuration table.
  • Line no 31-32: content block has content section html file included include ../contents/horizontal-navigation-styling.html, which can be customizable on page level.

From the above JADE Configuration table, you can choose navigation customization variable value as per your requirement and generate template or page with the help of JADE.

              
                  block pageVars
                    - var pageTitle    = "Horizontal Nav Styling"
                    - var pageSubTitle = "Custom horizontal navigation styling options"
                    - var description  = "The horizontal navigation styling options provides horizontal navigation customization such as border, shadow, position and color."
                    - var activeMenu   = "horizontal-navigation-styling"
                  
                  extends template
                  
                  block headerConfig
                    - var headerCustom = "navbar-light navbar-shadow navbar-without-dd-arrow"
                  
                  append breadcrumbs
                    include ../includes/mixins
                    +breadcrumbs([{url:"index.html",name:"Home"},{url:"#",name:"Navbars"}, {name:"Navbar Styling"}])
                  
                  append page-header
                    include page-headers/breadcrumb-top
                  
                  //- Include page content in page block
                  append content
                    include ../contents/horizontal-navigation-styling.html
                  
                  //- Page specific dependency
                  //------------------------------
                  
                  //- Add custom page specific CSS
                  block pagecss
                  
                  //- Add custom page specific JS
                  block pagejs