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How to create a navigation menu

In this how-to, we'll create a simple menu which you can use as the primary navigation for your website. This outputs a top level menu with a nested second level using the Menu loop and a Children loop.

This template relies on the getMenu() method available via the ContentController on all SiteTree records. The number passed in is the level to start the menu from, where 1 is the root level pages.

<%-- app/templates/Page.ss --%>
<ul>
    <% loop $Menu(1) %>
        <li>
            <a href="$Link" title="Go to the $Title page" class="<% if $isCurrent %>current<% else_if $isSection %>section<% end_if %>">
                $MenuTitle
            </a>

            <% if $isSection %>
                <% if $Children.exists %>
                    <ul class="secondary">
                        <% loop $Children %>
                            <li class="<% if $isCurrent %>current<% else_if $isSection %>section<% end_if %>"><a href="$Link">$MenuTitle</a></li>
                        <% end_loop %>
                    </ul>
                <% end_if %>
            <% end_if %>
        </li>
    <% end_loop %>
</ul>

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