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Boxed Layout

Boxed layout with collapsed navigation

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The boxed layout has a padding around the main wrapper as well as a background applied to it.

Description

The boxed layout has a padding around the main wrapper as well as a background can be applied to it and all your content will be centered with the background flowing around it.

CSS Classes

This table contains all classes related to the boxed layout, by using these layout specific classes you can apply its css.

All these options can be set via following classes:

Classes Description
.container This is the bootstrap class, the .container class provides a responsive fixed width container To create boxed layout you need to add .container class in <body> tag.
.boxed-layout To create boxed-layout you also require to use .boxed-layout class in <body> tag, this class help page to identify the layout type.

HTML Markup

This section contains HTML Markup to create boxed layout page. You need to add the .boxed-layout 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 4: Contain the and .container and .boxed-layout classes for applying boxed layout css to page.

Robust has a ready to use starter kit, you can use this layout directly by using the sk-boxed.html

        
            <!DOCTYPE html>
              <html lang="en">
                <head></head>
                <body data-menu="vertical-menu" class="vertical-layout vertical-menu 2-columns container boxed-layout menu-collapsed">

                  <!-- 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 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 3 column left sidebar layout.

Variable Value Description
boxedLayout true You must have to set boxedLayout variable value as true in pageConfig block, this will be used in jade condition to add .boxed-layout and .container class to <body>.
contentLayout '2-columns' You need to set contentLayout variable value as '2-columns' in pageConfig block.
JADE Code

To generate boxed layout page or template, you need to use following JADE code.

  • Line no 23: pageConfig block has a template specific configuration variables, in that for boxed layout you need to define variable - var boxedLayout = true.
  • Line no 24: pageConfig block also require to define variable - var contentLayout = '2-columns' as boxed layout use 2 columns.
  • Line no 34-35: content block has content section html file included include ../contents/layout-boxed.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 boxed layout boxed-layout.jade, however you can use it on template level but it will generate whole template as a content left sidebar.

              
                  block pageVars
                    - var pageTitle    = "Boxed Layout"
                    - var pageSubTitle = "Boxed layout with collapsed navigation"
                    - var description  = "The boxed layout has a padding around the main wrapper as well as a background applied to it."
                    - var activeMenu   = "layout-boxed"

                  extends template

                  block pageConfig
                    - var templateCustom = "vertical-layout vertical-menu" //- OPTIONS: menu-flipped
                    - var dataMenu = "vertical-menu"
                    - var boxedLayout = true  //- OPTIONS:- true, false
                    - var contentLayout = '2-columns'

                  append breadcrumbs
                    include ../includes/mixins
                    +breadcrumbs([{url:"index.html",name:"Home"},{url:"#",name:"Starters"}, {name:"Boxed Layout"}])

                  append page-header
                    include page-headers/breadcrumb-top

                  //- Include page content in page block
                  append content
                    include ../contents/layout-boxed.html

                  //- Page specific dependency
                  //------------------------------

                  //- Add custom page specific CSS
                  block pagecss
                    link(rel='stylesheet', type='text/css', href='robust-assets/css/plugins/ui/prism.min.css')

                  //- Add custom page specific JS
                  block pagejs
                    script(src='robust-assets/js/plugins/ui/prism.min.js', type='text/javascript')