Seeking Joomla! extension

[Haze]

Hi All,

I am playing with Joomla! at the moment and know a few on here have a lot more experience and familiarity with it; it wouldn't be difficult as I've only been looking at it for a few days, and trying to get my head around things and finding extensions, etc. What I wondered was whether anyone could help me find a navigation plugin/extension?
I have tried using different search terms but don't seem to find what I am after. What I am seeking is basically a vertical sidebar navigation like the one that is on the joomla! extensions page itself. I have done similar in the past with mootools or lists but thought as I am playing with Joomla! that I'd try and find something specific to that. Basically looking for a sidenav with an indented subnav.

Ta in advance

[slaughteredlamb]

I don't know how much you've played with the menus in Joomla but to a certain extent you can create this straight out of the box in that you can create a parent menu item with an indented child menu item. If you want child items to appear only when you click on the parent item then you are looking at something like Mootools or CSS which needs to be implemented into your template (check out Joomlart templates as most if not all of their templates have these by default).

Failing that there are menu extensions that do what you want here http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/structure-a-navigation/menu-systems

[Haze]

thanks for the info.. I just seeme d to be going around in circles. I have a template I bought to play with from templatemonster. I've done it before with mootools/css on a client site but was trying to source this sort of stuff on "Joomla!"
Thanks for the pointer though.

[slaughteredlamb]

I've never had to try what you are trying to do myself because either the template I've used supports this straight out of the box or I've not needed/wanted it but my understanding is that you can achieve that kind of menu effect on pretty much any template simply by editing the menu css in the templates style sheet (although some templates have more than one style sheet so you just need to know which one to edit). I'm no coder nor a web developer so I only have limited knowledge on all of this but on a number of templates I've tried with menus similar to what you want and that support this via mootools and css I've not seen a difference between the two i.e. the same effect can be achieved with both. Why you would choose one method over another I don't know all I know is that som components/modules/plugins for Joomla also use Mootools and that can cause one or the other to fail if the exact same version of mootools is not used for both...or something like that anyway, like I say I'm no developer.

Perhaps they have changes but when I last looked templatemonater were great for HTML templates but their Joomla ones left a little to be desired and it seemed to be more the case that an existing template was botched into a Joomla format rather than being designed with Joomla in mind but ten the last time I looked was something like 5 years ago.

[Haze]

Thanks for the info. I'll pla around with the template, it's all a bit of fun..... apparently