Customising the Left Navigation Theme

Introduction

Confluence comes bundled with the Left Navigation theme. This theme has a navigation menu on the left-hand side of the screen, which can be customised to contain additional links, sections and even macros.

Creating a custom navigation page

Custom left navigation

By default, the left-navigation theme just displays the space icon (or profile icon for a personal space), and three menus: page operations, browse space, and add content.

To add your own content to the top, create a page in your space called 'Navigation'. Put content there that you want to appear on the left navigation menu.

A couple of tips:

• items in a bulleted list show up as normal menu items
• use 'h1' to add a section heading for your menu items.

Examples

As an example, create a page called 'Navigation' with the following content:

h1. Search engines

* [Google|http://www.google.com]
* [Yahoo|http://www.yahoo.com]
* [MSN|http://search.msn.com]

This will give a left navigation menu like the image on the side of this page.

You can see another example of customised left-navigation theme on the Codegeist space with its associated Navigation page​.

See Also

To insert an expandable/collapsible left navigation menu, see the PageTree Plugin. Note that this looks better on the 'Default' theme rather than on the 'Left Navigation Theme'.