Aquileo | How to design side navigation for mobile using Sidetap plugin ?

In this article, we will learn how to design side navigation features for mobile web interfaces using Sidetap plugin. This plugin is a very lightweight and platform-independent framework and gives easy-to-use syntax and flexibility. It is completely based on HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Please download the required pre-compiled file from the link and save it in your working folder for implementation. Please take care of proper file paths while including in your source codes.

Approach:

Create the HTML structure: The Sidetap plugin uses a very specific HTML structure with all the pre-compiled libraries in the head section as given below in the final code. The plugin specific classes are used with HTML "div" having navigation panel with class="stp-nav" and content panel with class="stp-content-panel". The class used for the main body content is class="stp-content-body".
Instantiate Sidetap: In your mobile web app, the following syntax is used to create a reference to Sidetap. This is written in the script section of the HTML code.

var my_variable = new sidetap();

Final code:

html

<head>
    <meta charset='utf-8' />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,
        initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" />

    <!-- Sidetap libraries -->
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" 
          media="screen" href="sidetap.css" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" 
          media="screen" href="theme/default/default.css" />
    <!-- Sidetap libraries -->
</head>

<body>
    <div class="sidetap">
        <div class="stp-nav">
            <div>
                <!-- The sidetap navigation links
                    can be given here -->
                <nav>
                    <a href="#" class="selected">
                        First Navigation(selected)
                    </a>
                    <a href="#">Second Nav link</a>
                    <a href="#">Third nav link</a>
                    <a href="#">Fourth Nav link</a>
                </nav>
            </div>
        </div>

        <div class="stp-content" id="content">

            <!-- Content Divs -->
            <div class="stp-content-panel">

                <!-- The header contains the
                    class for menu icon -->
                <header>
                    <a href="javascript:void(0)" class="header-button icon menu">
                        <span>Menu</span></a>
                    <h1> Sidetap Plugin</h1>
                </header>

                <div class="stp-content-frame">
                    <div class="stp-content-body">
                        <div>
                            <p>Body content.</p>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- End content Div -->
        </div>
    </div>

    <!-- The jQuery library -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.1.7.2.js">
    </script>

    <!-- The JavaScript library for
        Sidetap plugin -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="sidetap.js">
    </script>

    <script>
        /* Instantiate sidetap in the top
        left side, refer output */
        var sidetapVar = sidetap();
        
        /* On click of the header menu
        button icon */
            
        /* The navigation is toggled */
        $(".header-button.menu")
            .on("click", sidetapVar.toggle_nav)
    </script>

Output:

You can see the final output of the project below:

How to design side navigation for mobile using Sidetap plugin ?

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