This wiki macro allows you to create a horizontal or vertical navigation menu without modifying the current skin

Description

This is a custom navigation menu wiki macro that allows you to add a navigation bar on header, left panels or right panels.

Vertical menu example

{{menu type="vertical" position="right" id="panelmenu"}}
* [[Main>>Main.WebHome]]
* [[Sandbox>>Sandbox.WebHome]]
** [[Sandbox.TestPage1]]
** [[Sandbox.TestPage2]]
** [[Sandbox.TestPage3]]
* [[Blog>>Blog.WebHome]]
{{/menu}}

Horizontal menu example

{{menu type="horizontal" id="horizontalmenu"}}
* [[Home>>Main.WebHome]]
* [[Sandbox>>Sandbox.WebHome]]
** [[Sandbox.TestPage1]]
** [[Sandbox.TestPage2]]
* [[Blog>>Blog.WebHome]]
** [[Blog Archive>>Blog.Archive]]
** [[Blog Categories>>Blog.Categories]]
{{/menu}}

It can be inserted in a xwiki document or in a panel. In a xwiki document it will show only when viewing that document, while if you define the panel in a wiki it will show in all wiki.

{{menu type="" id="" position=""}}
xwiki syntax 2.0
{{/menu}}

Parameters:

• type: horizontal or vertical
• id: the id of the navigation menu, used to add more than on navigation menu
• position: left or right, used for to specify if for left panels or right panels.

Screenshots

Horizontal menu

Vertical left menu

Vertical right menu

Branches

A modified version of this macro was used on www.xwiki.org, see XWikiOrgCode.MenuMacro-branch-xwikiorg.1.xar. The code was optimized for the horizontal menu layout and favored JavaScript to a CSS only code.

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

Install xar.