Content Left Sidebar

Description

Content layout left sidebar provides more navigations options on page level. For the larger screen this layout provides best usability. This layout use the third column as a sidebar section.

CSS Classes

This table contains all classes related to the content left sidebar layout. This is a custom layout classes for content left sidebar layout page requirements.

All these options can be set via following classes:

Classes Description
.content-left-sidebar You can create 3 column left layout by adding .content-left-sidebar class in <body> tag.
.content-right In this layout content should be float in right side, so .content-right class needs to add in content wrapper. Refer HTML markup line no 27.
.sidebar-left In this layout sidebar should be float in left side, so .sidebar-right class needs to add in sidebar wrapper. Refer HTML markup line no 33.

HTML Markup

This section contains HTML Markup to create 3 column left sidebar layout. You need to add the .content-left-sidebar class in the <body> tag as show in below markup on line no 4. This layout has a navigation, content and left sidebar sections with common header & footer.

  • Line no 27: Contain the and .content-right class for adjusting content section in right side.
  • Line no 33: Contain the .sidebar-left class for adjusting sidebar section in left side.

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

        
            <!DOCTYPE html>
              <html lang="en">
                <head></head>
                <body data-menu="vertical-menu" class="vertical-layout vertical-menu content-left-sidebar 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 Navigation-->
                  <div class="main-menu menu-dark menu-fixed menu-shadow">
                      ...
                  </div>
                  <!-- END Navigation-->
                  <!-- BEGIN Content-->
                  <div class="content app-content container-fluid">
                      <div class="content-wrapper">
                          <!-- content header-->
                          <div class="content-header row">
                              ...
                          </div>
                          <!-- content header-->
                          
                          <!-- content right-->
                          <div class="content-right">
                              ...
                          </div>
                          <!-- content right-->
                          
                          <!-- sidebar left-->
                          <div class="sidebar-left">
                              <div class="sidebar">
                                  ...
                              </div>
                          </div>
                          <!-- sidebar left-->
                          
                      </div>
                  </div>
                  <!-- END Content-->
                  <!-- START FOOTER DARK-->
                  <footer class="footer footer-dark">
                      ...
                  </footer>
                  <!-- START FOOTER DARK-->
                </body>
              </html>
        
        

PUG Configuration

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

PUG Variables

This table contains required PUG variables to generate 3 column left sidebar layout.

Block Variable Datatype Value Description
pageConfig contentLayout string 'content-left-sidebar' pageConfig block has a page configuration variables, in that for 3 column layout need to define variable - var contentLayout = 'content-left-sidebar'
PUG Code

To generate content left sidebar layout page or template, you need to use following PUG code.

  • Line no 20-21: You need to set contentLayout variable value as 'content-left-sidebar' in pageConfig block.
  • Line no 27-28: content block has content section html file included include ../contents/layout-content-left-sidebar.html, which can be customizable on page level.
  • Line no 30-31: sidebar block has sidebar section html file included include ../contents/sidebar-common.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 pug file for content left sidebar layout-content-left-sidebar.pug, however you can use it on template level but it will generate whole template as a content left sidebar.

              
                block pageVars
                	- var pageTitle    = "Content Left Sidebar"
                	- var pageSubTitle = "content layout with left sidebar"
                	- var description  = "The content left sidebar layout with navigation, content area and left sidebar."
                	- var activeMenu   = "layout-content-left-sidebar"
                
                extends template
                
                append pageConfig
                	- var contentLayout = 'content-left-sidebar'
                
                append breadcrumbs
                	+breadcrumbs([{url:"index.html",name:"Home"},{url:"#",name:"Page Layouts"}, {name:"Content Left Sidebar"}])
                
                //- Include page content in content black
                append content
                	include ../contents/layout-content-left-sidebar.html
                
                append sidebar
                	include ../contents/sidebar-common.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