Side Nav

Responsive navigation drawer beside the page: pushes the content on large screens, slides over it with a backdrop on small ones.

Attributes

NameTypeDefaultDescription
openedbooleanfalseWhether the drawer is open. On phones (and on tablets unless `tablet-mode` is set explicitly) the initial value is ignored and the drawer starts closed.
desktop-modeDisplayModesideHow the drawer behaves at 960px and up: `side` pushes the content, `over` slides above it.
tablet-modeDisplayModeoverHow the drawer behaves between 600px and 959px.
responsive-tabletbooleanfalseAlso collapse the drawer on tablets in `side` mode when the viewport shrinks to that size.
positionSideNavPositionstartWhich edge the drawer is on: `start` (left in LTR) or `end`.

Events

NameTypeDescription
opened-changeCustomEvent<OpenedChangeEventDetail>Fired when the user or a breakpoint change opens or closes the drawer (not when `opened` is set from code). `detail.opened` is the new state.

CSS custom properties

Grouped by the element and state they target. Click a group to collapse it; click a name to copy it.

NameTypeDefaultDescription
--c2-side-nav--transition-durationtime250ms
--c2-side-nav--background-colorcolor#fafafa
--c2-side-nav--colorcolor
--c2-side-nav--border-top-left-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav--border-top-right-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav--border-bottom-left-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav--border-bottom-right-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav--padding-toppadding16px
--c2-side-nav--padding-rightpadding16px
--c2-side-nav--padding-bottompadding16px
--c2-side-nav--padding-leftpadding16px
--c2-side-nav--border-topborder
--c2-side-nav--border-rightborder
--c2-side-nav--border-bottomborder
--c2-side-nav--border-leftborder
--c2-side-nav__open--widthpixel240px
--c2-side-nav__close--widthpixel0pxWidth of the collapsed drawer; a non-zero value gives a rail.
--c2-side-nav__divider--widthpixel1pxLine between the drawer and the content, on whichever side the drawer is.
--c2-side-nav__divider--colorcolor#e4e4e7
--c2-side-nav__scrollbar--colorcolorrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2)
--c2-side-nav__over--positionpositionfixed`absolute` keeps the overlay inside a positioned parent.
--c2-side-nav__over--toppixel0px
--c2-side-nav__over--heightpixel100dvh
--c2-side-nav__over--widthpixelDefaults to the open width.
--c2-side-nav__over--background-colorcolorDefaults to the drawer background.
--c2-side-nav__over--box-shadowbox-shadow0 12px 40px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.18)
--c2-side-nav__over--border-top-left-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav__over--border-top-right-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav__over--border-bottom-left-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav__over--border-bottom-right-radiusborder-radius
--c2-side-nav__over--padding-toppadding
--c2-side-nav__over--padding-rightpadding
--c2-side-nav__over--padding-bottompadding
--c2-side-nav__over--padding-leftpadding
--c2-side-nav__backdrop--background-colorcolorrgba(0, 0, 0, 0.32)
--c2-side-nav__backdrop--backdrop-filterfilternone
--c2-side-nav__backdrop--z-indexnumber1000
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