Submenu Navbar

Navbar46: Submenu Navbar

Studio navbar where top-level links can carry a children array that opens as a hover dropdown on desktop, listing each sublink with an optional description line. A seal CTA sits on the right, and below lg the same hierarchy renders as an inline-expanded mobile menu instead of a hover panel.

Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/navbar46?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/navbar46?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/navbar46.tsx and the button1 component it uses for its call-to-action.

Quick start

The installed file exports navbar46Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working navbar in one line.

import { Navbar46, navbar46Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar46";

export default function Layout() {
  return <Navbar46 {...navbar46Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

import { Navbar46 } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar46";

export default function Layout() {
  return (
    <Navbar46
      brand="Polaris"
      links={[
        { label: "Work", href: "/work" },
        {
          label: "Services",
          href: "/services",
          children: [
            { label: "Brand Identity", description: "Naming and systems", href: "/services/brand" },
            { label: "Web Engineering", description: "Fast front-ends", href: "/services/web" },
          ],
        },
        { label: "Journal", href: "/journal" },
      ]}
      cta={{ label: "Start a Project", href: "/contact" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type NavLink = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
  children?: SubLink[];
};

type SubLink = {
  label: string;
  description?: string;
  href: string;
};

type CtaLink = { label: string; href: string };

Behavior notes

• Desktop submenus open on hover via CSS (group-hover), not a click or open state; they stay mounted in the DOM at all times and are toggled between invisible/opacity-0 and visible/opacity-100.
• Only links whose children array is non-empty get a chevron and dropdown; the chevron rotates 180° on hover.
• Submenu items can carry an optional description line under the label.
• The mobile menu (conditionally rendered via {open && ...}) does not reuse the hover panel: it lists children inline under each parent label, indented with a left primary-colored border.