Mega Studio Navbar

Navbar60: Mega Studio Navbar

Full mega-menu navbar where bold top-level items expand into three-column panels: each column carries a parenthetical-badge title over a stack of link cards with descriptions, and the panel can end in a footer strip with a single arrow link. The panels are SSR-mounted (always rendered in the markup, toggled with CSS visibility) rather than conditionally mounted, so the full menu content is present in the server HTML.

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/navbar60?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/navbar60?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/navbar60.tsx, the badge7 and button12 components it uses for column labels and its CTA, and its dependencies.

Quick start

The installed file exports navbar60Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working navbar in one line.

import { Navbar60, navbar60Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar60";

export default function Layout() {
  return <Navbar60 {...navbar60Demo} />;
}

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

import { Navbar60 } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar60";

export default function Layout() {
  return (
    <Navbar60
      brand="Northwind"
      items={[
        { label: "Work", href: "/work" },
        {
          label: "Capabilities",
          href: "/capabilities",
          footerLabel: "See the full practice",
          footerHref: "/capabilities",
          columns: [
            {
              title: "Shape",
              links: [
                { label: "Brand Systems", description: "Naming and voice", href: "/brand" },
                { label: "Identity Design", description: "Marks and type", href: "/identity" },
              ],
            },
            {
              title: "Build",
              links: [
                { label: "Web Engineering", description: "Fast front-ends", href: "/web" },
              ],
            },
          ],
        },
        { label: "Journal", href: "/journal" },
      ]}
      button={{ label: "Start a project", href: "/contact" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type NavItem = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
  columns?: MegaColumn[];
  footerLabel?: string;
  footerHref?: string;
};

type MegaColumn = { title: string; links: SubLink[] };
type SubLink = { label: string; description?: string; href: string };

An item only opens a mega panel when columns is non-empty; otherwise it renders as a plain link.

Behavior notes

• Items with columns render as a button: hovering it (onMouseEnter) or clicking it opens its panel; clicking again while open closes it. Hovering a plain link resets activeIndex to null, closing any open panel.
• The mega panels are always mounted in the DOM (one wrapper per item) and switched between invisible/visible plus an opacity/translate transition, rather than conditionally rendered — this is the "SSR-mounted" behavior called out in the block's title/description.
• The panel closes on outside pointerdown or on Escape, via a document-level listener attached only while a panel is open.
• Each panel is a full-bleed strip below the nav row (absolute inset-x-0) containing a md:grid-cols-3 grid of columns; a column's title is rendered inside a Badge7.
• An item can add a footer strip (footerLabel/footerHref) shown as a single bold link with an arrow icon beneath the column grid.
• The mobile menu (below lg) flattens every column's links into one indented list under each item's own link, rather than reproducing the column layout.