Navbar - Modern Navigation Component
The mobile first menu navigation for today's modern web, developed with ES6+ JavaScript, TypeScript definitions and packed with lots of features.
Demo
Download the package and check the docs folder, or check it online here.
Navbar Highlights
- Mobile First Design
- Accessibility Focus
- ES6+ sources with TypeScript definitions and powerful build tools
- SCSS sources with powerful mixins and CSS variables
- very light footprint,
5kbin size when minified - 3 sets of positions top (main), left or right
- provides a set of options for JavaScript initialization
- DATA API allows you to automatically initiate without JS invocation
- modern browsers supported and semi-modern alike with a special polyfill for IE10+ provided
How It Works
On mobile
- uses the native events behavior, it requires some elements to click on
- shows the
<button class="navbar-toggle">element for element visibility toggle - menu items have a
<button class="subnav-toggle">element that enables visibility of the submenus - makes use of the
open-mobileclass to toggle submenus via theclickhandler
On the desktop
- hides mobile specific elements and changes event behavior to mouse hover
- opens submenus on
mouseenter, by addingopenandopen-positionclasses to the menu item, in rapid succession - hides submenus on
mouseleave, by removing the above classes in a delayed succesion
On both mobile and desktop, Navbar.js allows for full keyboard navigation via the TAB and SPACE keys. In addition, directional arrows provide navigation on desktop with RTL support.
NPM
You can install this through NPM:
$ npm install @thednp/navbar
Browser Usage
Download the latest package. unpack and inspect the contents. You need to copy the navbar.js and navbar.css or their minified variations to your app assets folders as follows.
Link the required CSS in your document <head> tag
<link href="../assets/css/navbar.css" rel="stylesheet">Link the required JS in your document <body> tag, though it should work in the <head> as well
<script src="../assets/js/navbar.js"></script>Initiate the function for your elements at the end of your <body> tag
<script>
var myMenu = new Navbar('selector');
</script>To use the DATA-API, you need to provide the data-function="navbar" attribute to your navbar, like so:
<nav class="navbar" data-function="navbar">
<a href="#" title="App Name">Brand Name</a>
<button class="navbar-toggle">
<i class="menu-icon"></i>
</button>
<div>
<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="#">Link Title</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another Link Title</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>Alternatively you can use only the menu itself and use the specific attribute:
<div class="sidebar">
<ul class="nav" data-function="navbar">
<li><a href="#">Link Title</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another Link</a></li>
</ul>
</div>Other initialization and markup options apply, explained in the demo.
ES6+
import Navbar from '@thednp/navbar'
let myNav = new Navbar('#myNav')Node
// get and store it
var Navbar = require("@thednp/navbar");
// initialize it
var myMenu = new Navbar('#myNav');