PatternFly Element | Navigation element

Site navigation for Red Hat's web sites

Usage

See the implementation documentation for how to build the appropriate markup for your site.

If this is an upgrade from the previous version of the nav, read the upgrade documentation.

If JS is working and enabled, the component will copy specific markup from inside the <pfe-navigation> tag to the Shadow DOM, this allows styles and behaviors to be encapsulated so we don't get any outside code messing with the appearance or behaviors of the navigation.

Once it's working it updates an attribute pfe-navigation[pfe-navigation-open-toggle] with the id of an expanded dropdown's button. If nothing is open the attribute will be empty.

Features:

Handles responsive styling and behaviors
Built with accessibility & SEO best practices
Dynamic breakpoints - JS will detect when there isn't enough room for the menu or secondary links and collapse them, so breakpoints don't have to be manually set. See pfe-navigation[breakpoint] attribute to see what breakpoint is currently active.
Reports an open dropdown via the attribute pfe-navigation[open-toggle].
Enclosed styling and behaviors for the main menu to avoid styling bugs
Has backwards compatibility with the previous version of the nav

The parent DOM can also call some methods like:

isOpen() - With no params returns true if anything is open, otherwise specific section names can be provided to see if a specific section is open.
isMobileMenuButtonVisible() - Returns true if the menu hamburger is visible, this happens around a 'tablet size' viewport.
isSecondaryLinksSectionCollapsed() - Returns true if search and other secondary links get moved to the mobile dropdown menu, which is the layout for the 'mobile phone sized' screens.
updateOpenDropdownHeight() - On mobile/tablet update the height inline style for the currently open dropdown

Example markup:

<!-- These links should be directly after <body> -->
<a href="#pfe-navigation" class="visually-hidden skip-link">Skip to navigation</a>
<!-- !! Update anchor link to main/content -->
<a href="#ADD-ID-TO-MAIN" class="visually-hidden skip-link">Skip to content</a>

<pfe-navigation id="pfe-navigation" role="banner">
  <nav class="pfe-navigation" aria-label="Main Navigation">
    <div class="pfe-navigation__logo-wrapper" id="pfe-navigation__logo-wrapper">
      <a href="#" class="pfe-navigation__logo-link">
        <img
          class="
            pfe-navigation__logo-image
            pfe-navigation__logo-image--screen
            pfe-navigation__logo-image--small"
          src="assets/redhat--reverse.svg"
          width="400" alt="Redhat" />
        <img
          class="
            pfe-navigation__logo-image
            pfe-navigation__logo-image--print"
          src="assets/orange-joe.svg"
          width="400" alt="Orange Joe Inc." />
      </a>
    </div>
    <ul class="pfe-navigation__menu" id="pfe-navigation__menu">
      <li class="pfe-navigation__menu-item">
        <a href="#" class="pfe-navigation__menu-link">
          Products
        </a>

        <div class="pfe-navigation__dropdown">
          <div>
            <h3>
              <a href="#">Stuff and Things</a>
            </h3>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Enterprise</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Bending Unit</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Poppler Collector</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Ship Piloting</a>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>
          <div>
            <h3>
              <a href="#">Ladders</a>
            </h3>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Lorem ipsum</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Dolor sit amet</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Wakka Wakka</a>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>
          <div>
            <h3>
              <a href="#">Chutes</a>
            </h3>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Yakkita yakkita</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Enterprise Yakkita yakkita</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Upstream Yakkita</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Yakkita ME</a>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>

          <div class="pfe-navigation__footer">
            <pfe-cta pfe-priority="primary">
              <a href="#">Learn more about PFElements</a>
            </pfe-cta>

            <pfe-cta>
              <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a>
            </pfe-cta>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>

      <li class="pfe-navigation__menu-item">
        <a href="#" class="pfe-navigation__menu-link">
          Delivery Service
        </a>
        <div class="pfe-navigation__dropdown pfe-navigation__dropdown--single-column">
          <div>
            <h3>
              Group 1
            </h3>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Enterprise</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Bending Unit</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Poppler Collector</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Ship Piloting</a>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>
          <div>
            <h3>
              Group 2
            </h3>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Enterprise</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Bending Unit</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Poppler Collector</a>
              </li>
              <li>
                <a href="#">Orange Joe's Ship Piloting</a>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>
        </div> <!-- end .pfe-navigation__dropdown -->
      </li>
      <li class="pfe-navigation__menu-item">
        <a href="#" class="pfe-navigation__menu-link">
          Training
        </a>
        <div class="pfe-navigation__dropdown pfe-navigation__dropdown--single-column">
          <ul>
            <li>
              <a href="#">Orange Joe's Enterprise</a>
            </li>
            <li>
              <a href="#">Orange Joe's Bending Unit</a>
            </li>
            <li>
              <a href="#">Orange Joe's Poppler Collector</a>
            </li>
            <li class="pfe-navigation__sub-nav-link--separator">
              <a href="#">Orange Joe's Ship Piloting</a>
            </li>
            <li>
              <a href="#">Orange Joe's Ship Piloting Example</a>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </div> <!-- end .pfe-navigation__dropdown -->
      </li>
      <li class="pfe-navigation__menu-item">
        <a href="#" class="pfe-navigation__menu-link">
          Resources
        </a>
      </li>
      <li class="pfe-navigation__menu-item">
        <a href="#" class="pfe-navigation__menu-link">
          Orange Joe's Promise
        </a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </nav>

  <!-- Example of a custom link in the secondary section -->
  <div slot="secondary-links" class="pfe-navigation__secondary-links" id="pfe-navigation__secondary-links">
    <a href="#" class="">
      <pfe-icon icon="web-icon-globe" pfe-size="md" aria-hidden="true"></pfe-icon>
      Deliveries
    </a>
  </div>

  <!-- Example of a custom dropdown in the secondary section -->
  <div slot="secondary-links">
    <pfe-navigation-dropdown dropdown-width="full" icon="web-globe" name="English">
      <div class="language-picker">
        <h3>Select a language</h3>
        <ul>
          <li class="pfe-headline-5">
            <a href="#/zh" class="language-link" xml:lang="zh" hreflang="zh">
              简体中文
            </a>
          </li>
          <li class="pfe-headline-5">
            <a href="#/en" class="language-link active" xml:lang="en" hreflang="en" aria-current="page">
              English
            </a>
          </li>
          <li class="pfe-headline-5">
            <a href="#/fr" class="language-link" xml:lang="fr" hreflang="fr">
              Français
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </pfe-navigation-dropdown>
  </div>

  <div slot="search" class="pfe-navigation__search">
    <form>
      <label for="pfe-navigation__search-label1">Search</label>
      <input id="pfe-navigation__search-label1" type="text" placeholder="Search" />
      <button>Search</button>
    </form>
  </div>

  <pfe-navigation-account slot="account" login-link="#log-in" logout-link="#log-out"></pfe-navigation-account>

</pfe-navigation>

Slots

search: For site's search form
secondary-links: For site's custom links/dropdowns that appear in the top right at desktop
account: For rh-account-dropdown component or custom auth content

Attributes

Author controlled attributes:

sticky: Add this attribute to the nav to make it stick to the top of the page.
debug: Add to enable detailed event logging (will enable logging for all PFE components)
lang: Language the navigation isn in, should match a key in the navTranslations object on the nav, see supported translations below.

Breakpoint variables

By default, the navigation detects where a navigation needs breakpoints based on the content. This feature was added to help inline search, but can be used on it's own to bypass the 'dynamic breakpoint' functionality. Bypassing that may improve perceived performance on initial load and window resize.

breakpoint-desktop: (Optional) hardcode a breakpoint for when the main menu should turn into the mobile dropdown
breakpoint-tablet: (Optional) hardcode a breakpoint for when everything but the account dropdown should be put in the mobile dropdown

<pfe-navigation id="pfe-navigation" role="banner" breakpoint-tablet="900" breakpoint-desktop="1200">

Component controlled attributes

open-toggle: Present when a dropdown is open, the value of this is the ID of the dropdown toggle.
breakpoint: Because JS detects when the nav doesn't fit, this will show the current breakpoint being used.
mobile-slide: Indicates that the currently open nav item has slid the menu over, this only happens at the mobile breakpoint.

Getting Started

Build the web component

npm run build

Run small web server to serve built files

npm start

Run tests from the project root with

npm run test:watch --element=pfe-navigation

Events

pfe-navigation:ready: Fires on connectedCallback right before the menu markup is processed by the component.
pfe-navigation:expanded-item: Fires when any dropdown is opened, in event.detail it will have a reference to:
- toggle element, the button that opens the dropdown
- pane the dropdown element
- parent the pfe-navigation element
pfe-navigation:collapsed-item: Fires when any dropdown is closed which may be because another one was open. It will have the same references as pfe-navigation:expanded-item.
pfe-shadow-dom-event: Fires when an element is clicked inside of a dropdown in the shadow root. This is for analytics to properly categorize and report the event. event.detail has:
- target Element clicked
- parent the pfe-navigation element

Translations

By default the nav supports the following languages:

en
de
fr
it
es
pt (Specifically brazilian portuguese)
ja
ko
zh (Specifically simplified Chinese)

There are 5 strings for the UI that should be translated, they are:

en: {
  login: "Log In",
  menu: "Menu",
  search: "Search",
  returnToMainMenu: "Back to menu",
  openAccountMenu: "Open account menu",
}

By default the nav provides translations in all of the supported languages. To see what those translations are, go to a page with the nav and run this command in the console:

document.querySelector('pfe-navigation').navTranslations

It's possible to add or update translations, listen for the pfe-navigation:ready, to add a language (e.g. Klingon, tlh):

document.addEventListener('pfe-navigation:ready', (event) => {
  event.detail.nav.navTranslations = {
    'tlh': {
      login: "QonoS",
      menu: "HIDjoilev",
      search: "SoQ",
      returnToMainMenu: "DaH pemuS",
      openAccountMenu: "jIHegh",
    }
  }
});

To update an existing translation, use the same code, but the existing lang code, and the keys that you would like to update. For instance, if I wanted to change english's login text:

document.addEventListener('pfe-navigation:ready', (event) => {
  event.detail.nav.navTranslations = {
    'en': {
      login: "Authenticate!"
    }
  }
});

CSS Variables

The defaults are correct at time of writing, check final CSS in case any get updated without updates to README.

General Variables

CSS Property Name	Default	Description
`--pfe-navigation--gutter`	32px	Spacing between columns
`--pfe-navigation--accordion-transition`	height 0.25s ease-in-out
`--pfe-navigation--content-max-width`	1136px	How wide dropdown content can get
`--pfe-navigation--FontFamily`	"Red Hat Text", "RedHatText", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
`--pfe-navigation--FontFamilyHeadline`	"Red Hat Display", "RedHatDisplay", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
`--pfe-navigation--ZIndex`	pfe-zindex(navigation)	Default is 98
`--pfe-navigation--overlay--Background`	rgba(21, 21, 21, 0.5)
`--pfe-navigation--fade-transition-delay`	1s	How long the navigational elements remain hidden before fading in

Nav Bar Variables

CSS Property Name	Default	Description
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--Height`	72px
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--Background`	#151515
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--Color--default`	pfe-var(ui-base--text)	Default is very dark gray
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--Color--active`	pfe-var(text)
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--toggle--BackgroundColor--active`	pfe-var(surface--lightest)	Default is white
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--highlight-color`	pfe-var(ui-accent)	Default is blue
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--Color--on-highlight`	pfe-var(text--on-saturated)	Default is white
`--pfe-navigation--nav-bar--alert-color`	pfe-var(link)	Default is blue

Dropdown Variables

CSS Property Name	Default	Description
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--Color`	#151515
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--Color--on-highlight`	pfe-var(text--on-dark)	Default is white
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--Color--secondary`	pfe-var(text--muted)	Default is gray
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--Background`	pfe-var(surface--lightest)	Default is white
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--link--Color`	pfe-var(link)	Default is blue
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--link--Color--hover`	#036
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--headings--Color`	#464646
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--headings--single-column--Color`	#6A6E73
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--separator--Border`	1px solid pfe-var(ui--border--lighter)	Default border color is light gray
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--BoxShadow`	0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12)
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--arrow--color`	#B8BBBE
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--arrow--color--active`	#6A6E73
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--highlight-color`	pfe-var(ui-accent)	Default is blue
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--single-column--spacing`	16px
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--full-width--spacing--mobile`	24px
`--pfe-navigation--dropdown--full-width--spacing--desktop`	64px

Mobile Dropdown Variables

CSS Property Name	Default
`--pfe-navigation--mobile-dropdown--PaddingVertical`	16px
`--pfe-navigation--mobile-dropdown--PaddingHorizontal`	32px

Skip Links Variables

CSS Property Name	Default
`--pfe-navigation--skip-link--Color`	pfe-var(link)
`--pfe-navigation--skip-link--BackgroundColor`	pfe-var(surface--lightest)

Dependencies

pfe-icon
pfe-cta
pfe-avatar

If a login experience/account dropdown is desired, pfe-navigation-account.

@cpelements/pfe-navigation

PatternFly Element | Navigation element

Usage

Features:

Slots

Attributes

Author controlled attributes:

Breakpoint variables

Component controlled attributes

Getting Started

Events

Translations

CSS Variables

General Variables

Nav Bar Variables

Dropdown Variables

Mobile Dropdown Variables

Skip Links Variables

Dependencies

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@cpelements/pfe-navigation

PatternFly Element | Navigation element

Usage

Features:

Slots

Attributes

Author controlled attributes:

Breakpoint variables

Component controlled attributes

Getting Started

Events

Translations

CSS Variables

General Variables

Nav Bar Variables

Dropdown Variables

Mobile Dropdown Variables

Skip Links Variables

Dependencies

Readme

Keywords

Package Sidebar

Install

Repository

Homepage

DownloadsWeekly Downloads

Version

License

Unpacked Size

Total Files

Last publish

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