Confluence Docs 3.0 : Customising the Left Navigation Theme This page last changed on Sep 22, 2008 by jnolen. ### Introduction Confluence comes bundled with the Left Navigation theme. This theme has a navigation menu on the left-hand side of the screen, which can be customised to contain additional links, sections and even macros. ### Creating a custom navigation page Custom left navigation By default, the left-navigation theme just displays the space icon (or profile icon for a personal space), and three menus: page operations, browse space, and add content. To add your own content to the top, create a page in your space called 'Navigation'. Put content there that you want to appear on the left navigation menu. A couple of tips: items in a bulleted list show up as normal menu items use 'h1' to add a section heading for your menu items. ### Examples As an example, create a page called 'Navigation' with the following content:
    h1. Search engines

    * [Google|http://www.google.com]
    * [Yahoo|http://www.yahoo.com]
    * [MSN|http://search.msn.com]
This will give a left navigation menu like the image on the side of this page. You can see another example of customised left-navigation theme on the Codegeist space with its associated Navigation page.
| Alternative left-hand navigation To insert an expandable/collapsible left-hand navigation menu, try the {pagetree} macro, supplied by the PageTree Plugin. You can follow the instructions to add the {pagetree} macro to your Confluence page layout. Note that this looks better if you use the Confluence Default theme rather than the Left Navigation theme.
##### RELATED TOPICS Adding a Navigation Sidebar Attachments: defaultLeftNav.png (image/png) customLeftNav.png (image/png)

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