Fumadocs
Layouts

Docs Layout

The layout of documentation

Install via Fumadocs CLI

For advanced customisation that supported options cannot suffice.

npx @fumadocs/cli@latest customise

The layout of documentation pages, it includes a sidebar and mobile-only navbar.

Usage

Pass your page tree to the component.

layout.tsx
import { DocsLayout } from 'fumadocs-ui/layouts/docs';
import { baseOptions } from '@/lib/layout.shared';
import type { ReactNode } from 'react';

export default function Layout({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <DocsLayout {...baseOptions()} tree={tree}>
      {children}
    </DocsLayout>
  );
}

Prop

Type

layout.tsx
import { DocsLayout } from 'fumadocs-ui/layouts/docs';

<DocsLayout
  sidebar={{
    enabled: true,
    // replace the default sidebar
    // component:
  }}
/>;

See Sidebar Links for customising sidebar items.

Prop

Type

A mobile-only navbar, the nav prop is also reusable on other Fumadocs layouts.

Docs Nav

import { DocsLayout } from 'fumadocs-ui/layouts/docs';
import { baseOptions } from '@/lib/layout.shared';
import type { ReactNode } from 'react';

export default function Layout({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
  const base = baseOptions();

  return (
    <DocsLayout
      {...base}
      nav={{
        ...base.nav,
        // override
      }}
    >
      {children}
    </DocsLayout>
  );
}

Prop

Type

Transparent Mode

To make the navbar background transparent, you can configure transparent mode.

import type { BaseLayoutProps } from 'fumadocs-ui/layouts/shared';

export const baseOptions: BaseLayoutProps = {
  nav: {
    transparentMode: 'top',
  },
};
ModeDescription
alwaysAlways use a transparent background
topWhen at the top of page
noneDisable transparent background (default)

Replace Navbar

To replace the navbar in Docs Layout, set nav.component to your own component.

layout.tsx
import { baseOptions } from '@/lib/layout.shared';
import { DocsLayout } from 'fumadocs-ui/layouts/notebook';
import type { ReactNode } from 'react';

export default function Layout({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <DocsLayout
      {...baseOptions()}
      nav={{
        component: <CustomNavbar />,
      }}
    >
      {children}
    </DocsLayout>
  );
}

Fumadocs uses CSS Variables to share the size of layout components, and fit each layout component into appropriate position.

You need to override --fd-nav-height to the exact height of your custom navbar, this can be done with a CSS stylesheet (e.g. in global.css):

:root {
  --fd-nav-height: 80px !important;
}

Advanced

Disable Prefetching

By default, it uses the <Link /> component of your React framework with prefetch enabled.

On Vercel, prefetch requests may cause a higher usage of serverless functions and Data Cache. It can also hit the limits of some other hosting platforms.

You can disable prefetching to reduce the amount of prefetch requests.

import { DocsLayout } from 'fumadocs-ui/layouts/docs';

<DocsLayout sidebar={{ prefetch: false }} />;

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