Overview
Each Nav is a structure giving you the ability to rearrange items through the delightful experience of dragging and dropping boxes.
- You can reference entries, enter hardcoded URLs (internal or external), or enter simple text blocks (which can be used as section headers for dropdown navs, for example).
- You can choose which collections’ entries will be available to choose from.
- Any referenced entries will use the URLs defined by the collection, regardless of the position in the Structure.
- You can place the same entry multiple times. Two times, three times, four times, even six times are all possible numbers of times you can place something.
Storage
Navs are stored in content/navigation. Each gets its own YAML file whose handle matches its filename.
content/
`-- navigation/
|-- header.yaml
`-- footer.yaml
title: Footer
max_depth: 3
collections:
- pages
- posts
- documents
tree: [...] # details below
Templating
You can work with the nav to loop through and render your HTML with access to all the entries and nodes in the navigation.
<ul>
{{ nav:footer }}
<li><a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a></li>
{{ /nav:footer }}
</ul>
Collections
Your navigation tree may contain references to entries. The control panel’s entry selector will show you entries across all collections by default. You may narrow down which collections will appear in the selector in the config area.
Localization
When running a multi-site installation, you can have a different tree for each nav. Learn more about localizing navs.