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From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Padez?= <andre.padez@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:19:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Layout's three bands are nav rows
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Top Menu, Content, Footer — the layout IS a page, and those are the only three things on it. They were
reachable by scrolling and by knowing which tab held what; as rows they take the shape the nav already
teaches with the pages under Pages, and the open one is `band` in the query string.

Fixed rather than fetched, unlike pages. A band cannot be added or removed from the admin — only the
code that draws it can — so reading them from the database would be a query that can only ever return
the same three rows in the same order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 web/NavPanel.tsx | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 web/sections.ts  | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/web/NavPanel.tsx b/web/NavPanel.tsx
index a42942e..455e35f 100644
--- a/web/NavPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/NavPanel.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Link, useSearchParams } from 'react-router';
 import { Lock } from 'lucide-react';
-import { DEFAULT_SECTION, SECTIONS, isSectionKey, sectionOpen, type SectionKey } from './sections';
+import { DEFAULT_SECTION, LAYOUT_BANDS, SECTIONS, isSectionKey, sectionOpen, type SectionKey } from './sections';
 import { useReady } from './useReady';
 import { pageParam, usePages } from './usePages';
 
@@ -145,6 +145,47 @@ export const NavPanel = () => {
       Drawn whether or not Pages is the open section. The list of pages IS the site, and hiding it
       until you click makes the nav a menu of menus.
     */
+    /*
+      Layout's three bands, as rows under Layout.
+
+      The layout IS a page — a header, the slot a page goes in, and a footer — and those three are the
+      only things on this screen. They were reachable by scrolling and by knowing which tab held what;
+      as rows they are the same shape as the pages under Pages, which is the shape the nav already
+      teaches.
+
+      Fixed rather than fetched: unlike pages, these three are structural. A band cannot be added or
+      removed from the admin, only the code that draws it can, so a list read from the database would
+      be a query that can only ever return the same three rows.
+    */
+    if (section.key === 'layout') {
+      return (
+        <div key={section.key} className="flex flex-col">
+          {row}
+          {LAYOUT_BANDS.map((band) => {
+            const childSearch = new URLSearchParams(params);
+            childSearch.set('section', 'layout');
+            childSearch.set('band', band.key);
+            childSearch.delete('media');
+
+            const current = active === 'layout' && params.get('band') === band.key;
+
+            return (
+              <Link
+                key={band.key}
+                to={{ search: `?${childSearch.toString()}` }}
+                replace
+                className={`flex items-baseline gap-2 border-b border-border py-1.5 pr-3 pl-9 text-left transition-colors ${
+                  current ? 'bg-muted' : 'hover:bg-muted/50'
+                }`}
+              >
+                <span className="min-w-0 flex-1 truncate text-xs">{band.label}</span>
+              </Link>
+            );
+          })}
+        </div>
+      );
+    }
+
     if (section.key !== 'pages' || !pages?.length) return row;
 
     return (
diff --git a/web/sections.ts b/web/sections.ts
index e171cbd..7e30292 100644
--- a/web/sections.ts
+++ b/web/sections.ts
@@ -70,6 +70,27 @@ export type Section = {
   pinned?: boolean;
 };
 
+/**
+ * The three bands the layout is made of, in the order they appear on the page.
+ *
+ * The layout IS a page: a header, the slot a page goes in, and a footer. These are the nav rows under
+ * Layout, and the `band` in the query string.
+ *
+ * FIXED, unlike the pages under Pages. A band cannot be added or removed from the admin — only the
+ * code that draws it can — so reading them from the database would be a query that can only ever
+ * return the same three rows in the same order.
+ */
+export const LAYOUT_BANDS = [
+  { key: 'header', label: 'Top Menu' },
+  { key: 'content', label: 'Content' },
+  { key: 'footer', label: 'Footer' },
+] as const;
+
+export type LayoutBand = (typeof LAYOUT_BANDS)[number]['key'];
+
+export const isLayoutBand = (value: string | null): value is LayoutBand =>
+  value !== null && LAYOUT_BANDS.some((band) => band.key === value);
+
 export const SECTIONS: Section[] = [
   {
     /*