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Description

Default vertical menu is full width. You may want change that behavior and make the menu compact at page level or at template level. You can experience compact menu in left side menu.

CSS Classes

This table contains all classes related to the vertical fixed navigation option.

All these options can be set via following classes:

Classes Description
.menu-collapsed To create vertical compact menu, you need to add .menu-collapsed class in <body> tag. Refer HTML markup line no 4.

HTML Markup

This section contains HTML Markup to create vertical compact menu. It define where to add css classes to make vertical compact menu.

  • Line no 4: Contain the .menu-collapsed class to set vertical compact menu.
                  
                      <!DOCTYPE html>
                        <html lang="en">
                          <head></head>
                          <body data-menu="vertical-menu" class="vertical-layout vertical-menu 2-column menu-collapsed">
                            <!-- fixed-top-->
                            <nav role="navigation" class="header-navbar navbar-expand-sm navbar navbar-with-menu 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 app-content">
                                <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

Stack 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 compact menu.

Block Variable Datatype Value Description
verticalMenuConfig menuCollapsed boolean true verticalMenuConfig block has a menuCollapsed variable, You need to set that variable to true to enable compact menu at template level.
JADE Code

Use following JADE code to generate page or template having vertical compact menu.

  • Line no 23: Set menuCollapsed variable value as true in verticalMenuConfig block.

If you want to use vertical compact menu options on page level you need to define it on page it self. This template has one example jade file for vertical-nav-compact-menu.jade, however you can use it on template level but it will generate whole template have vertical fixed navigation.

              
                extends ../base
                //- Template customization
                //------------------------
                block templateConfig
                    - var templateCustom = "vertical-layout vertical-menu-modern"
                    - var dataMenu = "vertical-menu-modern"
                //- Page level customization
                //------------------------
                block pageConfig
                    - var logoType = 'light'
                block navbarConfig
                    - var navbarPosition = "fixed-top"
                    - var navbarColor = "navbar-semi-dark"
                    - var navbarShadow = true
                block verticalMenuConfig
                    - var menuType = "menu-fixed"
                    - var menuColor = "menu-dark"
                    - var menuOpenType = "menu-accordion"
                    - var menuShadow = true
                    - var menuCollapsed = true
                block footerConfig
                    - var footerType = "footer-static"
                    - var footerColor = "footer-light"
                    - var footerBorder = true

Page Level Compact Menu

This section contains JavaScript code to enable compact menu at page level only. You must include following js code in a custom javascript file and must include on that page only where compact menu is required.

                    
                        $.app.menu.collapse();

Template Level Compact Menu

This section contains JavaScript code to enable compact menu at template level. You must set the compactMenu variable to "true" in the app.js file found at this page "app-assets/js/core/app.js". We have already added that code in app.js file where you can just change false to true.

                    
                        var compactMenu = true;