# Spawn navigation on topic pages

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/spawn-navigation-on-topic-pages/168094
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 23, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spawn-navigation-on-topic-pages/168094 "2020-10-23T19:48:16Z")
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### Author: ![Stanzilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stanzilla/32/166422_2.png) [@Stanzilla](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stanzilla)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spawn-navigation-on-topic-pages/168094/1 "2020-10-23T19:48:16Z")

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Hey there, I’m looking for way to spawn the navigation cluster on topic pages, what would be the easiest way to do that?

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spawn-navigation-on-topic-pages/168094/2 "2020-10-24T03:24:28Z")

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If you’re unfamiliar with Javascript and Discourse this won’t be easy, but here’s how I’d go about it:

There’s a plugin outlet called `topic-title` that you can use to add content at the top of a topic. You can add the navigation from the [d-navigation template](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/components/d-navigation.hbs) there… but you’ll also need some custom JS to pass the right parameters in, because some aren’t readily available on the topic page by default.

Plugin outlets and templates are covered a bit here: [Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developer-s-guide-to-discourse-themes/93648#heading--4-b)

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### Author: ![Stanzilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stanzilla/32/166422_2.png) [@Stanzilla](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stanzilla)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spawn-navigation-on-topic-pages/168094/3 "2020-10-24T13:33:47Z")

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Ah, I was hoping that it’s a widget I could spawn in an outlet.
