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Navbar

A responsive horizontal navbar that can supports images, links, buttons, and dropdowns

{% include meta.html new=true since="0.4.3" colors=true sizes=false variables=true %}

The new navbar replaces the deprecated nav component, whose documentation you can still access temporarily here.

The navbar component is a responsive and versatile horizontal navigation bar with the following structure:

  • navbar the main container
    • navbar-brand the left side, always visible, which usually contains the logo and optionally some links or icons
      • navbar-burger the hamburger icon, which toggles the navbar menu on touch devices
    • navbar-menu the right side, hidden on touch devices, visible on desktop
      • navbar-start the left part of the menu, which appears next to the navbar brand on desktop
      • navbar-end the right part of the menu, which appears at the end of the navbar
        • navbar-item each single item of the navbar, which can either be an a or a div
          • navbar-link a link as the sibling of a dropdown, with an arrow
          • navbar-dropdown the dropdown menu, which can include navbar items and dividers
            • navbar-divider a horizontal line to separate navbar items
{% include anchor.html name="Navbar brand" %}

The navbar-brand is the left side of the navbar. It can contain:

  • a number of navbar-item
  • the navbar-burger as last child
{% highlight html %}{{navbar_brand_example}}{% endhighlight %}

The navbar brand is always visible: on both touch devices {% include bp/touch.html %} and desktop {% include bp/desktop.html %}. As a result, it is recommended to only use a few navbar items to avoid overflowing horizontally on small devices.

{{navbar_brand_items_example}}
{% highlight html %}{{navbar_brand_items_example}}{% endhighlight %}

On desktop {% include bp/desktop.html %}, the navbar brand will only take up the space it needs.

{% include anchor.html name="Navbar burger" %}

The navbar-burger is a hamburger menu that only appears on mobile. It has to appear as the last child of navbar-brand.

{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_burger_example }}{% endhighlight %}

You can add the modifier class is-active to turn it into a cross.

{% include anchor.html name="Navbar menu" %}

The navbar-menu is the counterpart of the navbar brand. As such, it must appear as a direct child of navbar, as a sibling of navbar-brand.

{% highlight html %}{{navbar_menu_example}}{% endhighlight %}

The navbar-menu is hidden on touch devices {% include bp/touch.html %}. You need to add the modifier class is-active to display it.

{% highlight html %}{{navbar_menu_active_example}}{% endhighlight %}

On desktop {% include bp/desktop.html %}, the navbar-menu will fill up the space available in the navbar, leaving the navbar brand just the space it needs. It needs, however, two elements as direct children:

  • navbar-start
  • navbar-end
{% include anchor.html name="Navbar start and navbar end" %}

The navbar-start and navbar-end are the two direct and only children of the navbar-menu.

On desktop {% include bp/desktop.html %}:

  • navbar-start will appear on the left
  • navbar-end will appear on the right

Each of them can contain any number of navbar-item.

{% highlight html %}{{navbar_start_end_example}}{% endhighlight %} {% include anchor.html name="Navbar item" %}

A navbar-item is a repeatable element that can be:

  • a navigation link {% highlight html %}{{ navbar_item_link_example }}{% endhighlight %}
  • a container for the brand logo {% highlight html %}{{ navbar_item_brand_example }}{% endhighlight %}
  • the parent of a dropdown menu {% highlight html %}{{ navbar_item_dropdown_example }}{% endhighlight %}
  • a child of a navbar dropdown {% highlight html %}{{ navbar_item_dropdown_bis_example }}{% endhighlight %}
  • a container for almost anything you want, like a field
    {% highlight html %}{{ navbar_item_other_example }}{% endhighlight %}

It can either be an anchor tag <a> or a <div>, as a direct child of either:

  • navbar
  • navbar-brand
  • navbar-start
  • navbar-end
  • navbar-dropdown

You can add the modifier class is-expanded to turn it into a full-width element.

{% include anchor.html name="Transparent navbar" %}

To seamlessly integrate the navbar in any visual context, you can add the is-transparent modifier on the navbar component. This will remove any hover or active background from the navbar items.

{% include snippet.html content=navbar_transparent_example paddingless=true horizontal=true more=true %} {% include anchor.html name="Fixed navbar" %} {% include elements/new-tag.html version="0.6.1" %}

You can now fix the navbar to either the top or bottom of the page. This is a 2-step process:

  • Add either is-fixed-top or is-fixed-bottom to the navbar component {% highlight html %}
  • Add the corresponding has-navbar-fixed-top or has-navbar-fixed-bottom modifier to the <html> element to provide the appropriate padding to the page {% highlight html %}{% endhighlight %}

Try it out!

{% include anchor.html name="Dropdown menu" %}

To create a dropdown menu, you will need 4 elements:

  • navbar-item with the has-dropdown modifier
  • navbar-link which contains the dropdown arrow
  • navbar-dropdown which can contain instances of navbar-item and navbar-divider
{{ navbar_dropdown_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_example }}{% endhighlight %}

Show/hide the dropdown with either CSS or JavaScript

The navbar-dropdown is visible on touch devices {% include bp/touch.html %} but hidden on desktop {% include bp/desktop.html %}. How the dropdown is displayed on desktop depends on the parent's class.

The navbar-item with the has-dropdown modifier, has 2 additional modifiers

  • is-hoverable: the dropdown will show up when hovering the parent navbar-item
  • is-active: the dropdown will show up all the time

While the CSS :hover implementation works perfectly, the is-active class is available for users who want to control the display of the dropdown with JavaScript.

{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_hover_snippet }}{% endhighlight %}
{{ navbar_dropdown_hover_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_hover_example }}{% endhighlight %}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_active_snippet }}{% endhighlight %}
{{ navbar_dropdown_active_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_active_example }}{% endhighlight %}

Right dropdown

If your parent navbar-item is on the right side, you can position the dropdown to start from the right with the is-right modifier.

{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_right_snippet }}{% endhighlight %}
{{ navbar_dropdown_right_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_right_example }}{% endhighlight %}

Dropup

{% include elements/new-tag.html version="0.6.1" %}

If you're using a navbar at the bottom, like the fixed bottom navbar, you might want to use a dropup menu. Simply add the has-dropdown and has-dropdown-up modifiers to the parent navbar-item.

{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropup_snippet }}{% endhighlight %}
{{ navbar_dropup_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropup_example }}{% endhighlight %}

Styles for the dropdown menu

By default, the navbar-dropdown has:

  • a grey border-top
  • a border-radius at both bottom corners
{{ navbar_dropdown_default_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_default_example }}{% endhighlight %}

When having a transparent navbar, it is preferable to use the boxed version of the dropdown, by using the is-boxed modifier.

  • the grey border is removed
  • a slight inner shadow is added
  • all corners are rounded
  • the hover/active state is animated
{{ navbar_dropdown_boxed_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_boxed_example }}{% endhighlight %}

Active dropdown navbar item

{{ navbar_dropdown_item_active_example }}
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_dropdown_item_active_example }}{% endhighlight %}

Dropdown divider

You can add a navbar-divider to display a horizontal rule in a navbar-dropdown.

{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_divider_example }}{% endhighlight %} {% include anchor.html name="Colors" %}
New! 0.5.2

You can change the background color of the navbar by using one of the 9 color modifiers:

  • is-primary
  • is-link
  • is-info
  • is-success
  • is-warning
  • is-danger
  • is-black
  • is-dark
  • is-light
  • is-white
{% highlight html %}{{ navbar_color_markup }}{% endhighlight %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="primary" %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="link" %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="info" %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="success" %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="warning" light=true %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="danger" %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="black" %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="dark" %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="light" light=true %}
{% include examples/navbar-color.html color="white" light=true %}
{% include variables.html type='component' %}