We predefined two types of menus: main and footer, represents the top app bar menus and the footer menus, respectively. This article will briefly introduce how to use the menus.

Menu Entry Properties

PropertyTypeDescription
nameStringThe name of menu.
identifierStringThe ID of menu.
weightNumberThe weight of menu that used for sorting in ascending order.
parentStringThe identifier of parent menu entry.
urlStringThe URL of menu.
preStringThe leading string before menu name.
postStringThe trailing string after menu name.
paramsObjectMenu parameters.
params.dividerBooleantrue means divider.

See also Menu Entry Properties .

Usage

Configuration

The menu configuration file is located in config/_default/menu.toml by default.

Let’s take main menu as an example:

 1[[main]]
 2  name = "FooBar"
 3  identifier = "foobar"
 4  weight = 1
 5  pre = '<i class="fas fa-fw fa-chevron-circle-down"></i>'
 6[[main]]
 7  name = "Foo"
 8  identifier = "foo"
 9  parent = "foobar"
10  url = "https://github.com/razonyang/hugo-theme-bootstrap"
11  weight = 1
12[[main]]
13  parent = "foobar"
14  identifier = "foobar-divider"
15  weight = 2
16  [main.params]
17    divider = true
18[[main]]
19  name = "Bar"
20  identifier = "bar"
21  parent = "foobar"
22  url = "https://github.com/razonyang/hugo-theme-bootstrap/discussions/new"
23  weight = 3

Main Menus

As the image shown, we created a top level menu called foobar, that contains sub menus and divider.

Front Matter

We can also configure menu via page front matter.

1[menu.main]
2  parent = "support"
3  weight = 6
4[menu.footer]
5  parent = "support"
6  weight = 6
7  pre = '<i class="fas fa-fw fa-question-circle"></i>'

The code snippet appends the page to the main and footer menu.

It’s no need to specify the url and name parameters.