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Description

The fixed navbar & navigation layout has a fixed navbar, navigation menu and static footer only content section is scrollable to user. In this page you can experience it. Fixed navbar & navigation layout provide best usability and modularity.

CSS Classes

This table contains all classes related to the fixed navbar & navigation layout. This is a custom layout classes for fixed navbar & navigation layout page requirements.

All these options can be set via following classes:

Classes Description
.fixed-top To set navbar fixed you need to add .fixed-top class in navbar <nav> tag. Refer HTML markup line no 7.
.menu-fixed To set the main navigation fixed on page .menu-fixed class needs to add in navigation wrapper. Refer HTML markup line no 12.

HTML Markup

This section contains HTML Markup to create fixed navbar & navigation layout. This markup define where to add css classes to make fixed navbar, navigation and static footer .

  • Line no 7: Contain the .fixed-top class for adjusting navbar fixed on top.
  • Line no 12: Contain the .menu-fixed class for adjusting main navigation on left side.

Stack has a ready to use starter kit, you can use this layout directly by using the starter kit pages from the stack-admin/starter-kit folder. 

        
            <!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-fixed 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 right-->
                          <div class="content-right">
                              ...
                          </div>
                          <!-- content right-->
                      </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 fixed navbar & navigation layout.

Block Variable Datatype Value Description
navbarConfig navbarPosition string 'fixed-top' navbarConfig block has a navbarPosition variable, it contains navbar position specific classes in that you need to set 'fixed-top'
verticalMenuConfig menuType string 'menu-fixed' verticalMenuConfig block has a menuType variable, it contains vertical layout navigation type specific classes in that you need to set 'menu-fixed' for fixed vertical navigation.
horizontalMenuConfig menuType string 'navbar-fixed' horizontalMenuConfig block has a menuType variable, it contains horizontal layout navigation type specific classes in that you need to set 'menu-fixed' for fixed horizontal navigation.
JADE Code

To generate fixed navbar & navigation layout page or template, you need to use following JADE code.

  • Line no 22-23: Set navbar fixed class to navbarCustom variable value as 'fixed-top' in navbarConfig block.
  • Line no 25-26: Set vertical layout navigation type class to menuType variable value as 'menu-fixed' in verticalMenuConfig block.
  • Line no 28-29: Set horizontal layout navigation type class to menuType variable value as 'menu-fixed' in verticalMenuConfig block.
  • Line no 35-36: content block has content section html file included include ../contents/layout-fixed-navbar-navigation.html, which can be customizable on page level.

If you want to use this layout on page level you need to define it on page it self. This template has one example jade file for fixed layout-fixed-navbar-navigation.jade, however you can use it on template level but it will generate whole template as a fixed navbar & navigation layout. 

              
                  block pageVars
                    - var pageTitle    = "Fixed Navbar & Navigation"
                    - var pageSubTitle = "Fixed navbar with fixed navigation"
                    - var description  = "The fixed navbar & navigation page structure have fixed navbar and navigation, static footer."
                    - var activeMenu   = "layout-fixed-navbar-navigation"
                  extends template
                  append pageConfig
                  append navbarConfig
                    - var navbarPosition = "fixed-top" 
                  append horizontalMenuConfig
                    - var menuType = 'navbar-fixed'
                  append verticalMenuConfig
                    - var menuType = 'menu-fixed'
                  append breadcrumbs
                    +breadcrumbs([{url:"index.html",name:"Home"},{url:"#",name:"Page Layouts"}, {name:"Fixed Navbar"}])
                  //- Include page content in page block
                  append content
                    include ../contents/layout-fixed-navbar-navigation.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