Replicating Bootstraps main nav and subnav

Question

I need to quickly knock up the functionality of the twitter bootstraps main navigation and sub navigation e.g. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html (when you

Answer 1

Great Answer from @Oleg,

For people like me who want to reproduce the responsive behaviour of the .subnav

Here is the css code (without colors, borders and effects)

body {  padding-top: 90px; }
@media (max-width: 980px) {
    body {
        padding-top: 0;
    }
}
.subnav {
    width: 100%;
}
@media (max-width: 768px) {
    .subnav {
        position: static;
        top: auto;
        z-index: auto;
        width: auto;
        height: auto;
    }
    .subnav .nav > li {
        float: none;
    }
}
@media (min-width: 980px) {
  .subnav-fixed {
    position: fixed;
    top: 40px;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    z-index: 1020;
  }
 .subnav-fixed .nav {
    width: 938px;
    margin: 0 auto;
  }
}
@media (min-width: 1210px) {
  .subnav-fixed .nav {
    width: 1168px;
  }
}

If you want to clone the style of the menu (including colors, borders and effects)

http://jsfiddle.net/baptme/ydY6W/

Answer 2

As of 2012-12-04 the accepted answer is no longer the best choise, since the desired functionality has been included into Bootstrap. Please see Affix JavaScript component which is part of Bootstrap JS

Answer 3

Here is another code

$(function(){
  var
    $win = $(window),
    $filter = $('.navbar'),
    $filterSpacer = $('<div />', {
      "class": "filter-drop-spacer",
      "height": $filter.outerHeight()
    });
  $win.scroll(function(){     
    if(!$filter.hasClass('navbar-fixed-top')){
        if($win.scrollTop() > $filter.offset().top){
        $filter.before($filterSpacer);
        $filter.addClass("navbar-fixed-top");
      }
    }else if ($filter.hasClass('navbar-fixed-top')){
      if($win.scrollTop() < $filterSpacer.offset().top){
      $filter.removeClass("navbar-fixed-top");
      $filterSpacer.remove();
    }
    } 
  });
});

Answer 4

Here is my code to implement this feature:

$(document).scroll(function(){
    // If has not activated (has no attribute "data-top"
    if (!$('.subnav').attr('data-top')) {
        // If already fixed, then do nothing
        if ($('.subnav').hasClass('subnav-fixed')) return;
        // Remember top position
        var offset = $('.subnav').offset()
        $('.subnav').attr('data-top', offset.top);
    }

    if ($('.subnav').attr('data-top') - $('.subnav').outerHeight() <= $(this).scrollTop())
        $('.subnav').addClass('subnav-fixed');
    else
        $('.subnav').removeClass('subnav-fixed');
});

Answer 5

The two answers above work great, but I just thought I'd let people know that I've made this into a module (without the jQuery dependency) available at ForbesLindesay/booting-sub-nav. It can be used standalone with a script tag or via https://github.com/component/component/