center logo in the middle of site navigation partial view

BEWD 90 posts 303 karma points

Apr 03, 2019 @ 19:00

Hi

I am building a website in Umbraco 8 and using Bootstrap 4, The design for the site has the main navigation across the top with the Business Logo in the middle (3 nav links to the left, 3 to the right of the logo)

I have the following HTML for the navigation which works fine if hard coded but I'm not sure how to code it in a partial view (eg, select the Home node and the first 2 descendants, then place the logo, then select the next 3 descendants - including and descendants of those main pages

 <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md navbar-fixed-top navbar-dark main-nav">
        <div class="navbar-collapse collapse nav-content order-2">
            <ul class="nav navbar-nav left">
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="~/Default.aspx">Home</a>
                </li>
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="~/about.aspx">About Us</a>
                </li>
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="~/events.aspx">Events</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <ul class="nav navbar-nav text-nowrap flex-row mx-md-auto order-1 order-md-2">
            <li class="nav-item">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">
                    <div class="triangle" style="text-align:center;">
                        <img class="logo" src="~/images/Carps_logo.PNG" width="280" />
                        <div class="triangleImg">
                            <img src="~/images/triangle.png" />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </a>
            </li>
            <button class="navbar-toggler ml-2" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-content" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
                <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
            </button>
        </ul>
        <div class="ml-auto navbar-collapse collapse nav-content order-3 order-md-3">
            <ul class="ml-auto nav navbar-nav right">
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Gallery</a>
                </li>
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="navbarDropdownMenuLink" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
                        Menus
                    </a>
                    <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdownMenuLink">
                        <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">A La Carte Menu</a>
                        <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">
                            Dessert Menu
                        </a>
                        <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Childrens Menu</a>
                        <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Sunday Lunch Menu</a>
                        <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Drinks</a>
                    </div>
                </li>
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="~/contact-us.aspx">Contact</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </nav>

Any advice on how I can code this would be grateful, I have done navigation partials before just not sure how to split it with the logo in the middle?

Thanks

Ben

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Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points

Apr 03, 2019 @ 19:23

Hi Ben,

An easy route would be to put 2 multi-node treepickers (one for the left and one for the right) on your home node for each side of the nav and render those.

Hope this helps,

Amir

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BEWD 90 posts 303 karma points

Apr 03, 2019 @ 20:13

Ahh, now that is an option worth looking into. Would it be easy enough to also automatically display any dependants of those nodes from the normal MNTP code?

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Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points

Apr 03, 2019 @ 20:17

By dependents do you mean child nodes? If so you should be able to loop through them like with any other nav code, something like below.

@if(item.Children.Any()) {
            var childItems = item.Children.Where("Visible");
            <ul>
                @foreach(var childItem in childItems) {
                    <li><a href="@childItem.Url">@childItem.Name</a></li>   
                }
            </ul>
        }

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BEWD 90 posts 303 karma points

Apr 04, 2019 @ 10:18

Great thanks Amir, it took a bit of playing around but I got it working

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BEWD 90 posts 303 karma points

Apr 04, 2019 @ 13:27

It looked at first glance to be ok and it renders fine but when I click on a link i get the below error.

enter image description here

The code in the Partial view is as follows and then this is bought in on the MasterPage with @Html.Partial("leftHandNavigation") :

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage
@using Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent
@using Umbraco.Web

@{ var selection = Model.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedContent>>("leftHandNavigation").ToArray(); }

@if (selection.Length > 0)
{
    <ul class="nav navbar-nav right">
        @if (Model.Name == "Home")
        {
            <li class="nav-item active">
                <a class="nav-link" href="../default.aspx">Home</a>
            </li>
        }
        else
        {
            <li class="idol">
                <a href="~/default.aspx">Home</a>
            </li>
        }
        @foreach (var item in selection)
        {
            if (item.Children.Any())
            {
                var childItems = item.Children;
                <li class="nav-item dropdown">
                    <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="navbarDropdownMenuLink" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">@item.Name</a>


                <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdownMenuLink">
                    @foreach (var childItem in childItems)
                    {
                    <a class="dropdown-item" href="@childItem.Url">@childItem.Name</a>
                    }
                </div> 
                </li>
            }
            else
            {
                {
                    <li class="nav-item">
                        <a class="nav-link" href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a>
                    </li>
                }

            }
        }
    </ul>
}

Any ideas what the error is referring to?

thanks

Ben

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Center logo in the middle of site navigation partial view