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+<h1 id="simple-navigation-setup-in-jekyll-3.9.0">Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0</h1>
+<p>2020-09-29</p>
+<p>I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up &#8220;dynamic&#8221; navigation in Jekyll. The problem I&#8217;ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the simplest way that I tend to use when building out <code>nav</code> elements in Jekyll (3.9.0 as of this writing).</p>
+<h2 id="creating-the-directories-files">Creating the Directories &#38; Files</h2>
+<p>In your Jekyll project, at the top level, you need to create a directory called <code>_data</code>. Inside this folder we will be creating a new file called <code>navigation.yml</code>. The contents of this file will contain all your navigation links and they are rendered like so:</p>
+<pre><code>- title: Home
+url: &#47;
+
+- title: Articles
+url: &#47;articles&#47;
+
+- title: About
+url: &#47;about&#47;
+</code></pre>
+<h2 id="dynamically-rendering-the-navigation">Dynamically Rendering the Navigation</h2>
+<p>The next and final step is rendering out the navigation with a simple loop:</p>
+<pre><code>{% for item in site.data.navigation %}
+ &#60;li&#62;
+ &#60;a href="{{ item.url }}"&#62;&#60;span&#62;{{ item.title }}&#60;&#47;span&#62;&#60;&#47;a&#62;
+ &#60;&#47;li&#62;
+{% endfor %}
+</code></pre>
+<h2 id="highlight-current-page">Highlight Current Page</h2>
+<p>It&#8217;s also very easy to extend this method to add a CSS class based on whether a user is on the currently selected page or not:</p>
+<pre><code>{% for item in site.data.navigation %}
+ &#60;li&#62;
+ {% if item.url == page.url %}
+ &#60;a class="active" href="{{ item.url }}"&#62;&#60;span&#62;{{ item.title }}&#60;&#47;span&#62;&#60;&#47;a&#62;
+ {% else %}
+ &#60;a href="{{ item.url }}"&#62;&#60;span&#62;{{ item.title }}&#60;&#47;span&#62;&#60;&#47;a&#62;
+ {% endif %}
+ &#60;&#47;li&#62;
+{% endfor %}
+
+
+
+&#47;* Custom styling for active class *&#47;
+li a.active { color: red; }
+</code></pre>
+<p>Congrats! You now have fully functional, dynamic navigation on your Jekyll site.</p>
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