Description
2 Columns layout is the most common and popular layout, it has a navigation with content section. This layout use the common navbar and footer sections, however you can add customized header or footer on page level.
CSS Classes
This table contains all classes related to the 2 columns layout. This is a custom layout classes for 2 columns layout page requirements.
All these options can be set via following classes:
| Classes | Description |
|---|---|
.2-columns |
You can create 2 columns layout by adding .2-columns class in <body> tag. |
This section contains HTML Markup to create 2 columns layout. You
need to add the .2-columns class in the <body> tag as show in below markup on line no 4. This layout has a navigation
and content sections with common header & footer.
Modern has a ready to use starter kit, you can use this layout directly
by using the starter kit pages from the modern-admin/starter-kit folder.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head></head>
<body data-menu="vertical-menu" class="vertical-layout vertical-menu 2-columns menu-expanded">
<!-- fixed-top-->
<nav role="navigation" class="header-navbar navbar-expand-sm navbar navbar-with-menu fixed-top navbar-dark navbar-shadow navbar-border">
</nav>
<!-- BEGIN Navigation-->
<div class="main-menu menu-dark menu-fixed menu-shadow">
</div>
<!-- END Navigation-->
<!-- BEGIN Content-->
<div class="content app-content">
</div>
<!-- END Content-->
<!-- START FOOTER DARK-->
<footer class="footer footer-dark">
</footer>
<!-- START FOOTER DARK-->
</body>
</html>
Modern Admin use PUG as template engine to generate pages and whole template quickly using node js, for getting start with PUG usage & template generating process please refer template documentation.
PUG Variables
This table contains required PUG variables to generate 2 columns layout.
| Block | Variable | Datatype | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pageConfig |
contentLayout |
string |
'2-columns' |
pageConfig block has a page configuration variables,
for 2 columns layout you need to define variable - var contentLayout = '2-columns' |
PUG Code
To generate 2 columns layout page or template, you need to use following PUG code.
Line no 19-20: Default value of contentLayout variable is '2-columns'. Its is optional to set contentLayout variable value as '2-columns' in pageConfig block.
If you want to use this layout on page level you need to define it
on page it self. This template has one example pug file for 2 columns
layout-2-columns.pug, however you can use it on template
level but it will generate whole template as a 2 columns.
block pageVars
- var pageTitle = "2 Columns"
- var pageSubTitle = "2 columns layout with navigation"
- var description = "The full width 2 columns layout with content & navigation section."
- var activeMenu = "layout-2-columns"
extends template
append pageConfig
- var contentLayout = '2-columns'
append breadcrumbs
+breadcrumbs([{url:"index.html",name:"Home"},{url:"#",name:"Page Layouts"}, {name:"2 Columns"}])
//- Include page content in page block
append content
include ../contents/layout-2-columns.html
//- Vendor CSS
//------------------------------
//- Add Vendor specific CSS
append vendorcss
//- Page CSS
//------------------------------
//- Add custom page specific CSS
append pagecss
//- Vendor JS
//------------------------------
//- Add vendor specific JS
append vendorjs
//- Page JS
//------------------------------
//- Add custom page specific JS
append pagejs