Split Screen Menu

Navbar96: Split Screen Menu

A minimal bar with a wordmark, a Menu button and a call to action. Menu opens a fullscreen overlay split in two, five huge links on the left and a photo that cross-fades to the hovered link on the right with a contact block beneath, and on phones the same overlay stacks the photo above the links.

Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

npx shadcn add "https://beste.dev/r/navbar96?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://beste.dev/r-base/navbar96?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/navbar96.tsx plus the shadcn button primitive it uses.

Quick start

The installed file exports navbar96Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working navbar in one line.

import { Navbar96, navbar96Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar96";

export default function Page() {
  return <Navbar96 {...navbar96Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

import { Navbar96 } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar96";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <Navbar96
      brand="Northwind"
      menu={[
        { label: "Projects", href: "/projects", image: { src: "/photos/tower.jpg", alt: "A glass tower" } },
        { label: "Studio", href: "/studio", image: { src: "/photos/office.jpg", alt: "A bright office" } },
        { label: "Contact", href: "/contact", image: { src: "/photos/lake.jpg", alt: "A mountain lake" } },
      ]}
      contacts={[
        { label: "Email", value: "[email protected]", href: "mailto:[email protected]" },
        { label: "Studio", value: "14 Wharf Road, London" },
      ]}
      socials={[
        { label: "Instagram", href: "https://instagram.com" },
        { label: "LinkedIn", href: "https://linkedin.com" },
      ]}
      button={{ label: "Start a project", href: "/contact" }}
      labels={{ menu: "Menu", close: "Close", openMenu: "Open menu", closeMenu: "Close menu" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type MenuLink = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
  image: { src: string; alt: string };
};

type ContactLine = {
  label: string;
  value: string;
  href?: string;
};

type NavItem = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
};

Behavior notes

• The overlay and all of its photos are server-rendered and CSS-toggled (invisible opacity-0 to visible opacity-100), and the overlay is inert while closed so its links are not keyboard-reachable.
• Every photo sits absolutely in one frame; the active one fades to full opacity while the rest fade out and, under motion-safe:, settle from scale-105. The active index follows both hover and focus on the links.
• The links rise in one after another through inline transitionDelay values from the index, reset to 0ms on close.
• Opening the menu locks body scroll, restored on close and on unmount; Escape and any link inside the overlay close it.
• The bar blur lives on the inner <nav> rather than the <header>, because backdrop-filter on the header would trap the fixed overlay inside the bar.
• On phones the photo moves above the links with order-first and the contact lines drop into the foot next to a full call to action.