# Custom navbar
## HTML
If you need custom navigation, you can create a HTML-based navigation bar (but note that documentation links begin with `#/`).
```html
```
## Markdown
Alternatively, you can create a custom markdown-based navigation file by setting `loadNavbar` to **true** and creating `_navbar.md`. Details are available in the [load-navbar configuration paragraph](configuration#load-navbar).
```html
```
```markdown
- [En](/)
- [chinese](/zh-cn/)
```
!> You need to create a `.nojekyll` in `./docs` to prevent GitHub Pages from ignoring files that begin with an underscore.
`_navbar.md` is loaded from each level directory. If the current directory doesn't have `_navbar.md`, it will fall back to the parent directory. If, for example, the current path is `/guide/quick-start`, the `_navbar.md` will be loaded from `/guide/_navbar.md`.
## Nesting
You can create sub-lists by indenting items that are under a certain parent.
```markdown
- Getting started
- [Quick start](/quickstart)
- [Writing more pages](/more-pages)
- [Custom navbar](/custom-navbar)
- [Cover page](/cover)
- Configuration
- [Configuration](/configuration)
- [Themes](/themes)
- [Using plugins](/plugins)
- [Markdown configuration](/markdown)
- [Language highlight](/language-highlight)
```
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