Accordion Navigation

Description

Default vertical navigation type is accordion navigation. When new menu item is click, last opened menu close automatically. You can experience accordion navigation in left side menu.

CSS Classes

This table contains all classes related to the vertical accordion navigation option.

All these options can be set via following classes:

Classes Description
.menu-accordion To create vertical accordion navigation, you need to add .menu-accordionclass in navigation <div> tag. Refer HTML markup line no 12.

HTML Markup

This section contains HTML Markup to create vertical accordion navigation. It define where to add css classes to make vertical accordion navigation.

  • Line no 12:Contain the .menu-accordionclass to set vertical navigation accordion.
<!DOCTYPE html>                        <html lang="en">                          <head></head>                          <body data-menu="vertical-menu" class="vertical-layout vertical-menu 2-column menu-expanded">                            <!-- fixed-top-->                            <nav role="navigation" class="header-navbar navbar-expand-sm navbar navbar-with-menu fixed-top navbar-dark navbar-shadow navbar-border">                                ...                            </nav>                            <!-- BEGIN Navigation-->                            <div class="main-menu menu-dark menu-accordion menu-shadow">                                ...                            </div>                            <!-- END Navigation-->                            <!-- BEGIN Content-->                            <div class="content app-content">                                <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

Stack 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 vertical accordion navigation.

Block Variable Datatype Value Description
verticalMenuConfig menuOpenType string 'menu-accordion' verticalMenuConfigblock has a menuOpenType variable, it contains navigation specific classes in that you need to set 'menu-accordion'.
JADE Code

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

  • Line no 20-21:Set vertical accordion navigation class to menuOpenTypevariable value as 'menu-accordion' in verticalMenuConfigblock.
  • Line no 27-28:contentblock has content section html file included include ../contents/vertical-accordion-navigation.html, which can be customizable on page level.

If you want to use vertical accordion navigation options on page level you need to define it on page it self. This template has one example jade file for vertical-accordion-navigation.jade, however you can use it on template level but it will generate whole template have vertical accordion navigation.

                block pageVars                    - var pageTitle    = "Accordion Navigation"                    - var pageSubTitle = "Vertical accordion navigation option"                    - var description  = "Default vertical navigation type is accordion navigation."                    - var activeMenu   = "vertical-nav-accordion"                extends template                append verticalMenuConfig                    - var menuOpenType = "menu-accordion"                append breadcrumbs                    +breadcrumbs([{url:"index.html",name:"Home"},{url:"#",name:"Navigation"}, {name:"Accordion Navigation"}])                //- Include page content in page block                append content                    include ../contents/vertical-nav-accordion.html                //- Vendor CSS                //------------------------------                //- Add Vendor specific CSS                append vendorcss                //- Page CSS                //------------------------------                //- Add custom page specific CSS                append pagecss                //- Vendor JS                //------------------------------                //- Add vendor specific JS                append vendorjs                //- Page JS                //------------------------------                //- Add custom page specific JS                append pagejs