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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0

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2020-09-29

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I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’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 nav elements in Jekyll (3.9.0 as of this writing).

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Creating the Directories & Files

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In your Jekyll project, at the top level, you need to create a directory called _data. Inside this folder we will be creating a new file called navigation.yml. The contents of this file will contain all your navigation links and they are rendered like so:

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- title: Home
-url: /
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-- title: Articles
-url: /articles/
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-- title: About
-url: /about/
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Dynamically Rendering the Navigation

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The next and final step is rendering out the navigation with a simple loop:

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{% for item in site.data.navigation %}
-    <li>
-        <a href="{{ item.url }}"><span>{{ item.title }}</span></a>
-    </li>
-{% endfor %}
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Highlight Current Page

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It’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:

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{% for item in site.data.navigation %}
-    <li>
-        {% if item.url == page.url %}
-        <a class="active" href="{{ item.url }}"><span>{{ item.title }}</span></a>
-        {% else %}
-        <a href="{{ item.url }}"><span>{{ item.title }}</span></a>
-        {% endif %}
-    </li>
-{% endfor %}
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-/* Custom styling for active class */
-li a.active { color: red; }
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Congrats! You now have fully functional, dynamic navigation on your Jekyll site.

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