Accordion Navigation

Vertical accordion navigation option

Default vertical navigation type is 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.

Experience it!

This page contain accordion navigation menu options example, check at the left hand side of the page.

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-accordion class 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-accordion class 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">

                            <!-- 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-accordion 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 vertical accordion navigation.

Variable Value Description
menuCustom 'menu-accordion' You need to add vertical accordion navigation class to menuCustom variable value as 'menu-accordion' in menuConfig block.
JADE Code

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

  • Line no 20-21: menuConfig block has a menuCustom variable, it contains navigation specific classes in that you need to add menu-accordion
  • Line no 32-33: content block 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    = "Collapsible Navigation"
                    - var pageSubTitle = "Vertical accordion navigation option"
                    - var description  = "The accordion vertical navigation open/close menu panel on click only."
                    - var activeMenu   = "vertical-accordion-navigation"

                  extends template

                  block menuConfig
                    - var menuCustom = "menu-light menu-fixed menu-shadow menu-accordion"
                    //- OPTIONS : menu-fixed, menu-dark, menu-light, menu-accordion, menu-accordion , menu-native-scroll, menu-icon-right, menu-border, menu-shadow

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

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

                  //- Include page content in page block
                  append content
                    include ../contents/vertical-accordion-navigation.html

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

                  //- Add custom page specific CSS
                  block pagecss

                  //- Add custom page specific JS
                  block pagejs