Option for navbar menu unclear

[michaelaye]

Description

First let me thank you for the awesome Quarto framework. I'm currently dreaming of changing ALL my writing to Quarto, b/c I just love it's versatility so much. For me it's like Latex on steroids, but readable. ;)

I have a question for a feature mentioned in the section of Website Navigation.

The below text from this section could benefit from a screenshot showing what it exactly produces, to me it's unclear if it creates the same as the paragraph above, or a slightly different layout. Syntactically, if I start simply with the word "left" and then write "menu" it's unclear how the compiler even knows that it shall create a navbar?

You can also create a navigation bar menu by including a menu (which is a list of items much like left and right). For example:

left:
  - text: "More"
    menu:
      - talks.qmd
      - about.qmd

[michaelaye]

oh, i read over the navigation MENU word, i thought it's about a different way to create a whole navbar, so if i understand it correctly, this is for creating a dropdown menu inside the navbar, right?

[mcanouil]

yes, see the Quarto documentation website "help" in the top navigation code.

• https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web/blob/main/_quarto.yml#L66