How to get rid of the Blogger navigation bar?

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Here's a snapshot of a Blogger blog and the navigation bar (navbar) is at the top shown by the green arrow.

So, how do you get rid of it if you don't want it hanging on top of your blog? If you want to turn it on instead of off, read the section at the end of the post.

To Turn Off the Blogger Navigation Bar
Just copy the Navbar1 code below and paste it anywhere inside your blog XML file as a CSS code after the /* Variable definitions section. If you're not sure what this means, follow these steps:

#Navbar1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}

1. Login to your blog and click the Edit HTML tab inside the Template tab.
2. Inside the file, locate the section body { ..... } and paste the Navbar1 code below this section, after the closing bracket.
3. Click 'SAVE TEMPLATE'.
4. That's it. You're done.

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It's easy to get rid of it. But know that the Navbar serves some purposes. The most valuable purpose for you is that it helps other Bloggers stumble upon your blog when they click the NEXT button on the Navbar searching for other blogs randomly. Not to mention that it's easy go to the login page if you have the Navbar on; otherwise, you have to open up the Blogger login page to login.

So, you decide which is the best for you. To have it on or off?

Update: How to turn on the Blogger navigation bar?
If you're using my templates, most of them don't have the Blogger navigation bar. But, if, you'd like to turn it on, simply look for the following code and delete the code in red.

#Navbar1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}

23 comments:

Antony January 29, 2008 6:51 AM  

Its simply working. thanks

khaerul February 14, 2008 4:23 AM  

hi dzulque, i've tried to hide my navbar but , but i still had trouble to put the code ,
my blog http://armmoney.blogspot.com

Jean Mounier March 04, 2008 1:07 AM  

Thank you! I tried several methods I saw on the net and none worked, until I found yours. It works perfectly at my blog http://blogatation.blogspot.com/

Thanks again.

Gayl June 22, 2008 11:26 PM  

This was a great tip! I am wondering how to get the Edit icon back for the posts. I can't seem to figure out where that code is (or isn't)

Thanks for the wonderful photoblog templates.

bunty July 21, 2008 1:59 PM  

thanks its works for my onlinemovies4me.blogspot.com i was searching form long time for this code..thanks once again

Chen Art Studio September 03, 2008 8:05 AM  

Your templates are awesome! They are simply beautiful. I like them very much. I have changed the templates of my 3 blogs to yours. However, I noticed most of your templates do not have the navigation bar. Please teach me how to show it in my blog so that I can edit my blog easily.

OBT September 04, 2008 4:20 PM  

Chen, see this:
http://www.ourblogtemplates.com/2008/01/how-to-get-rid-of-blogger-navigation.html

debi September 21, 2008 10:10 PM  

Thank you thank you!!!!
You are the best. Love your templates and how easy you make it to instal.
Marvelous simply marvelous.

Rafiq Raja September 29, 2008 4:19 AM  

That worked perfectly well, for my blog. Thanks for the wonderful Note.

Srini October 25, 2008 1:50 PM  

so simple trick?
Thanks,
Srini.
http://reddy-sri.blogspot.com/

Tupperware November 10, 2008 2:09 AM  

Hi OBT, tried to turn on navigation bar but unable to save template. This message appears "more than one widget was found with id:LinkList 1. Widget IDs should be unique." Please help. Thanks.

Tupperware November 10, 2008 10:09 AM  

Hi OBT, I finally managed to resolve the error. I deleted 1 from LinkList1 and it worked..hehe! The professional template is simply awesome.

KingDestroyer January 01, 2009 11:39 AM  

Thanks worked like a charm.

tikoim March 24, 2009 12:08 AM  

Thank you. Easy and quick.

I just pasted it in above 'body{}' - inside it didn't work - but whatever perfect tip - thanks

Thane Silliker March 29, 2009 6:49 AM  

Worked perfectly. Thanks!

Daryl Saari April 19, 2009 10:56 PM  

Since i changed it, it now works great for me now.

Christopher J May 23, 2009 4:15 PM  

Thanks it worked great
Check out the results!

www.subsidizingfailure.org

Nevskaya Palitra-Hammond OÜ June 29, 2009 1:39 AM  

Great!Thanks a lot!

Bill Miracle January 18, 2010 2:32 AM  

How do I get to the "edit html" template if the nave bar is missing and the "customize" link is not there?
I cannot edit the page or post new posts. Help!
prayforphilippines.blogspot.com

Jeremy February 02, 2010 9:43 AM  

it worked!
http://www.burnlikestars.blogspot.com

Debbie "Takara" Shelor February 28, 2010 8:34 AM  

Thank you soooooooooooo much for helping me out with this! I really appreciate how easy the blogger software is to use. But I'm hosting my own blog and I seriously don't want people to push the stupid "next blog" button. So thanks again.

Deb
http://www.debbieshelor.com

kingmp April 27, 2010 3:25 PM  

thank you for the great info I was trying every thing and then when I find you it work perfect keep up the good work

(e June 04, 2010 4:52 PM  

Awesome! Thank you so much! So simple.

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