Navgoco is a simple JQuery plugin which turns a nested unordered list of links into a beautiful vertical multi-level slide navigation, with ability to preserve expanded submenus between sessions by using cookies and optionally act as an accordion menu.
Download v0.1.5 | GitHub | Demo | JQuery
Getting Started
Download the plugin, unzip it and copy the files to your application directory and load them inside your HTML.
<head>
<!-- Load JQuery -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
<!-- Load jquery.cookie plugin (optional) -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/navgoco/src/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<!-- Load jquery.navgoco plugin js and css files -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/navgoco/src/jquery.navgoco.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/navgoco/src/jquery.navgoco.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
Sample menu code & Plugin Activation
<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="#">1. Menu</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">1.1 Submenu</a></li>
<li><a href="#">1.2 Submenu</a></li>
<li><a href="#">1.3 Submenu</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<!-- etc... -->
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.nav').navgoco();
});
</script>
For more information check Readme on github...
Please use github for reporting bugs, it's tough to keep track of issues through comments.
Thank you.
I am finding that the submenus down expand. Clicking 'expand all' sometimes gets things going but often the menus just mopve a bit but don't expand. What could be the problem?
Great work and very easy to implement - thank you for sharing! I'll make sure to keep navgoco in mind for the next vertical menu. Right now I tested it with a (one-level) horizontal navigation, which is also working well, but naturally the menu ought to close after an item/link has been clicked.
Big thanks about this. Very nice menu and easy to use
There are some bugs!
@Dao, @Acid Currently no it's not possible, i 'll look into it.
@ken I guess you also try to add a proper link on a parent menu ?
Is there anyway that on level0 has menu items bellow, if you click on the link, it will navigate to an url that associate with the item, and if you click on the caret or similar, the sub menus will open. I think in many cases parent item has link itself and should not be disabled.
Do you have an idea?
Great menu! This is a really basic question but for some reason I can't figure it out. How do I activate a URL change on click? When I change <a href="#"> to whatever I want my link to be, it does not register when you click it, it just stays on the current page.
Is it possible to make the accordion parent clickable? so even if it has subs that it opens the link on the accordion parent but also shows the subs?
Thanks a lot for sharing with us +1 Very great work !
Thank you for your work. can I ask one? I just want add callback function in navgoco's options. Can u show some example how to add callback function?
I'm not english user. please understand my words.
Yeah that's probably a bug, i hadn't considered the possibility of a first level menu item without a submenu.
Thanks for reporting it, i will fix it as soon as possible.
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Just released v0.1.4 to fix this issue.
Thx for reporting, please use github to report issues from now on.
I try it further. So first of all, i need cookies. Then the code you gave me can't close first level link that don't have submenu. Am I right? For example here is my menu:
When I go to 2.1.2 and then click on 1.Home . The 2.1 menu stay displayed, or I need to hide it.
The website I'm working on use php with url parameter to navigate. I try your solution, I understand the idea, but, in my case it always close all.
Oh i get it now, you are using the menu to navigate from anchor to anchor in the same page or do something with ajax ?
Here a quick and dirty solution...
https://gist.github.com/tefra/6397468
Let me know if this works for you. I will incorporate it to the plugin's features.
Thank you for your response. But indeed my menu is in accordion mode. What I want to be able to do, if I take the example of the demo (accordion version!) is when I click on "About" > "Contact Us" and then on "Public Relation" (or any uplevel menu that don't have submenu) it hides the "Contact Us" submenu. And this is not the case in the demo. I think it would be useful and user friendly for big submenu. I hope my question is clear, it's not easy to explain in a foreign language! Thank you.
Enable accordion mode, see demo
Very nice menu, thank you for sharing your work. Can you tell me how to modify the script to hide submenu when user click on any of level 1 link? Thank you in advance