Animated Navbar

A highlight slides under whichever link the pointer is on, groups open a small menu, and below a width of its own it folds into a menu button. It can stay put, hide while you scroll down, or shrink into a floating bar.

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The decision inside it

It folds by its own width, not the screen's

So it works in a preview frame, a sidebar layout or a narrow container, and the menu button appears exactly when the links stop fitting.

When to use it

Use Animated Navbar as the header of a marketing site: links with a sliding highlight, groups that open a menu, and a mobile menu when the links stop fitting. For an app's own navigation use a sidebar.

Installation

How you get it

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any coding agent. It installs the file and uses it as it is, instead of writing a new one.

Use Layro's Animated Navbar for this.
Install it: npx shadcn@latest add @layro/animated-navbar
(the @layro registry is set up in components.json, with LAYRO_KEY in .env.local)
Import it from @/components/ui/animated-navbar.
Do not rewrite or restyle it. Pass my data through its props
and keep its built-in states.

For the full brief with every prop and the mistakes assistants usually make, use Copy prompt above. Pro components install through the @layro registry with your CLI token: see the Namespaced tab.

Usage

components/site-header.tsx

import { AnimatedNavbar } from "@/components/ui/animated-navbar";

export function SiteHeader() {
  return (
    <AnimatedNavbar
      logo={<span className="font-semibold">Madgixs</span>}
      items={[
        { label: "Product", children: [{ label: "Templates", href: "/templates" }, { label: "Signing", href: "/signing" }] },
        { label: "Pricing", href: "/pricing" },
        { label: "Customers", href: "/customers" },
      ]}
      actions={<a href="/signup">Start free</a>}
      behavior="shrink-on-scroll"
      variant="floating"
      currentHref="/pricing"
    />
  );
}

API reference

“Copy prompt” above puts a full brief on your clipboard — install command, dependencies, props, and the mistakes an assistant usually makes with this component.

Props

Read from the component’s own TypeScript interface when the site is built, so this table cannot drift from the file you install.

Prop	Type	Notes
`logo`required	`React.ReactNode`	Your mark, usually a link home.
`items`required	`NavbarItem[]`	—
`actions`	`React.ReactNode`	On the right: sign in, a call to action.
`behavior`	`"static" \| "hide-on-scroll" \| "shrink-on-scroll"`	What scrolling does. Default "shrink-on-scroll".
`variant`	`"full" \| "floating"`	"full" spans the width; "floating" is a rounded bar with a gap above. Default "full".
`mobileBreakpoint`	`"sm" \| "md" \| "lg"`	Below this width of the bar, items fold into a menu. Default "md".
`scrollContainer`	`React.RefObject<HTMLElement \| null>`	The element that scrolls, when it is not the window.
`currentHref`	`string`	The current page's href, marked aria-current.

Dependencies

npm packages

clsxframer-motionlucide-reacttailwind-merge

Layro foundations, installed alongside it

layro-theme

States

All of them are drawn by the component. None is left for you to design.

Default
Hover highlight
Group open
Shrunk on scroll
Mobile menu open
Reduced motion

Accessibility

Keyboard reachable throughout, in visual order
Focus trapped in overlays, Escape closes them
Focus returns to whatever opened it
Live regions announce what changed, not that something did
Honours prefers-reduced-motion

Responsive behavior

Sizes to its container, not the viewport
Usable from 320px up
Pointer-based interaction, so trackpad and touch both work
No hover-only affordances

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Inside

It folds by its own width, not the screen's

When to use it

Installation

How you get it

Usage

API reference

Props

Dependencies

States

Accessibility

Responsive behavior

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