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Description

The fixed navigation layout has a fixed navigation and static navbar menu and footer. Only navigation section is fixed to user. In this page you can experience it.

CSS Classes

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

All these options can be set via following classes:

Classes Description
.menu-fixed To set navigation fixed you need to add .menu-fixed class in menu wrapper. Refer HTML markup line no 12.

HTML Markup

This section contains HTML Markup to create fixed navigation layout. This markup define where to add css classes to make navigation fixed.

  • Line no 12: Contain the .menu-fixed class for adjusting navigation fixed on top.

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 2-column menu-expanded">
                  <!-- fixed-top-->
                  <nav role="navigation" class="header-navbar navbar-expand-sm navbar navbar-with-menu 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>

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 fixed navigation layout.

Variable Value Description
verticalMenuCustom 'menu-fixed' In verticalMenuConfig, use verticalMenuCustom variable value as 'menu-fixed' to fix the navigation menu. verticalMenuConfig block.
PUG Code

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

  • Line no 20-21: verticalMenuConfig block has a verticalMenuCustom variable, it contains navigation specific classes in that you need to add 'menu-fixed'
  • Line no 36-37: content block has content section html file included include ../contents/layout-fixed-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 pug file for fixed layout-fixed-navigation.pug, however you can use it on template level but it will generate whole template as a fixed navigation layout.

            
                block pageVars
                  - var pageTitle    = "Fixed Navigation"
                  - var pageSubTitle = "Fixed navigation with fixed navigation"
                  - var description  = "The fixed navigation page structure have fixed navigation, static navbar and footer."
                  - var activeMenu   = "layout-fixed-navigation"
                
                extends template
                
                block navbarConfig
                  - var navbarCustom = "navbar-dark navbar-shadow navbar-border" //- OPTIONS: navbar-dark, navbar-light, navbar-semi-dark, fixed-top, navbar-hide-on-scroll, navbar-border, navbar-shadow
                block verticalMenuConfig
                  - var verticalMenuCustom = "menu-dark menu-fixed menu-shadow" //- OPTIONS : menu-bordered, menu-native-scroll, menu-icon-right menu-fixed
                
                block footerConfig
                  - var footerCustom = "footer-dark" //- OPTIONS: footer-dark, footer-transparent, footer-fixed
                
                append breadcrumbs
                  include ../includes/mixins
                  +breadcrumbs([{url:"index.html",name:"Home"},{url:"#",name:"Page Layouts"}, {name:"Fixed Navigation"}])
                
                append page-header
                  include page-headers/breadcrumb-top
                
                //- Include page content in page block
                append content
                  include ../contents/layout-fixed-navigation.html
                
                //- Page specific dependency
                //------------------------------
                
                //- Add custom page specific CSS
                block pagecss
                  link(rel='stylesheet', type='text/css', href='../../../app-assets/css/plugins/ui/prism.min.css')
                
                //- Add custom page specific JS
                block pagejs
                  script(type='text/javascript' ,src='../../../app-assets/vendors/js/ui/prism.min.js')