The navbar is fully contained by an HTML5 Nav tag. Inside a recommended container div, there are 2 main parts of the navbar. A logo or brand link, and the navigations links. You can align these links to the left or right.

Right Aligned Links

To right align your navbar links, just add a right class to your <ul> that contains them.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
      <ul id="nav-mobile" class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html">JavaScript</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>
        

Left Aligned Links

To left align your navbar links, just add a left class to your <ul> that contains them.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#" class="brand-logo right">Logo</a>
      <ul id="nav-mobile" class="left hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html">JavaScript</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>
        

Centering the logo

The logo will center itself on medium and down screens, but if you want the logo to always be centered, add the center class to your <a class="brand-logo">. You will have to make sure yourself that links do not overlap if you use this.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#" class="brand-logo center">Logo</a>
      <ul id="nav-mobile" class="left hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html">JavaScript</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>
        

Active Items

Add active class to your li tags to denote the current page.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#!" class="brand-logo center">Logo</a>
      <ul class="left hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li class="active"><a href="collapsible.html">JavaScript</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>
        

Extended Navbar with Tabs

To add extended components to the navbar, add the class nav-extended to the outer nav tag. This will allow your navbar height to be variable. Then you can just include a tabs component inside the nav-wrapper.

  <nav class="nav-extended">
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
      <a href="#" data-activates="mobile-demo" class="button-collapse"><i class="material-icons">menu</i></a>
      <ul id="nav-mobile" class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html">JavaScript</a></li>
      </ul>
      <ul class="side-nav" id="mobile-demo">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html">JavaScript</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="nav-content">
      <ul class="tabs tabs-transparent">
        <li class="tab"><a href="#test1">Test 1</a></li>
        <li class="tab"><a class="active" href="#test2">Test 2</a></li>
        <li class="tab disabled"><a href="#test3">Disabled Tab</a></li>
        <li class="tab"><a href="#test4">Test 4</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>
  <div id="test1" class="col s12">Test 1</div>
  <div id="test2" class="col s12">Test 2</div>
  <div id="test3" class="col s12">Test 3</div>
  <div id="test4" class="col s12">Test 4</div>
        

Fixed Navbar

To make the navbar fixed, you have to add an outer wrapping div with the class navbar-fixed. This will offset your other content while making your nav fixed. You can adjust the height of this outer div to change how much offset is on your content.

  <div class="navbar-fixed">
    <nav>
      <div class="nav-wrapper">
        <a href="#!" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
        <ul class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
          <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
          <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </nav>
  </div>
        

Navbar Dropdown Menu

To add a navbar dropdown menu, add the ul dropdown structure into the page. Then, add an element to trigger the dropdown menu. Make sure to supply the id of the dropdown structure to the data-activates attribute of the dropdown trigger.

<!-- Dropdown Structure -->
<ul id="dropdown1" class="dropdown-content">
  <li><a href="#!">one</a></li>
  <li><a href="#!">two</a></li>
  <li class="divider"></li>
  <li><a href="#!">three</a></li>
</ul>
<nav>
  <div class="nav-wrapper">
    <a href="#!" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
    <ul class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
      <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
      <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
      <!-- Dropdown Trigger -->
      <li><a class="dropdown-button" href="#!" data-activates="dropdown1">Dropdown<i class="material-icons right">arrow_drop_down</i></a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</nav>
        

To activate the dropdown menu, insert this line of code into your JavaScript file, within the $( document ).ready(function) block

$(".dropdown-button").dropdown();
        

Trigger dropdown menu on click

By default, the dropdown menu is activated by hovering over the dropdown trigger. To activate the dropdown menu on click, pass { hover: false } into the above dropdown() function

Icon Links

You can add icons into links. For icon only links you don't need any additional class. Just pop the i tag in and it will work.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#!" class="brand-logo"><i class="material-icons">cloud</i>Logo</a>
      <ul class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html"><i class="material-icons">search</i></a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html"><i class="material-icons">view_module</i></a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html"><i class="material-icons">refresh</i></a></li>
        <li><a href="mobile.html"><i class="material-icons">more_vert</i></a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>

For adding an icon to a text link you need to add either a left or right class to the icon depending on where you want the icon to be.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#!" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
      <ul class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html"><i class="material-icons left">search</i>Link with Left Icon</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html"><i class="material-icons right">view_module</i>Link with Right Icon</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>

Buttons

You can add buttons into links. For buttons you don't need any additional class. Just pop the .btn class on the a tag.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#!" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
      <ul class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a class="waves-effect waves-light btn">Button</a></li>
        <li><a class="waves-effect waves-light btn">Button <i class="material-icons right">cloud</i></a></li>
        <li><a class="waves-effect waves-light btn-large">Large Button</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>

Halfway FAB in Extended Navbar

Add a halfway FAB to your extended navbar.

  <nav class="nav-extended">
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#!" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
      <ul class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a>A link</a></li>
        <li><a>A second link</a></li>
        <li><a>A third link</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="nav-content">
      <span class="nav-title">Title</span>
      <a class="btn-floating btn-large halfway-fab waves-effect waves-light teal">
        <i class="material-icons">add</i>
      </a>
    </div>
  </nav>

Search Bar

You can add a search form in the navbar.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <form>
        <div class="input-field">
          <input id="search" type="search" required>
          <label class="label-icon" for="search"><i class="material-icons">search</i></label>
          <i class="material-icons">close</i>
        </div>
      </form>
    </div>
  </nav>

Mobile Collapse Button

When your nav bar is resized, you will see that the links on the right turn into a hamburger icon menu. Take a look at the example below to get this functionality. Add the entire button-collapse line to your nav.

  <nav>
    <div class="nav-wrapper">
      <a href="#!" class="brand-logo">Logo</a>
      <a href="#" data-activates="mobile-demo" class="button-collapse"><i class="material-icons">menu</i></a>
      <ul class="right hide-on-med-and-down">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html">Javascript</a></li>
        <li><a href="mobile.html">Mobile</a></li>
      </ul>
      <ul class="side-nav" id="mobile-demo">
        <li><a href="sass.html">Sass</a></li>
        <li><a href="badges.html">Components</a></li>
        <li><a href="collapsible.html">Javascript</a></li>
        <li><a href="mobile.html">Mobile</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>
          

Initialization

After including the button-collapse line into your navbar, all you have to do now is place this code in your page's $( document ).ready(function(){}) code. This example below assumes you have not modified the classes in the above example. In the case that you have, just change the jQuery selector in the line below to match it.

    $(".button-collapse").sideNav();