Adding a cart button to the navigation menu

[Webbieads (Adrienne Hodges)]

Hi there,

I am new to Webflow but after reading this page:

Add a shopping cart to every page of your Ecommerce site | Webflow University

It seems adding a cart to your nav menu is easy but it doesn’t let me. I can see you can create your own nav bar and add it but why can’t you add it to the built in nav bar as per the page above?

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Here is my site Read-Only: LINK
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[Webflow-user (Lykad studios)]

Hej @Webbieads.

If you could please share the read-only link to your site I would gladly look into it and help you.

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[Webbieads (Adrienne Hodges)]

https://preview.webflow.com/preview/helen-thorp-art?utm_medium=preview_link&utm_source=designer&utm_content=helen-thorp-art&preview=7ee2cedf69b41c4f14445c17dfd177df&mode=preview

[Webflow-user (Lykad studios)]

Ah i see the issue here. You can’t drag and drop elements into a symbol unless the symbol Is opened at the time.

Do this:

1. Double click the navbar

2. Now that the navbar symbol is opened, drag the cart element into the navbar.

3. Done

[Webbieads (Adrienne Hodges)]

Unfortunately, it does not let me do that. It says “Cart cannot be placed in a nav menu” - please see attached screenshot.

[Webflow-user (Lykad studios)]

Okay i understand. You can’t place a cart inside of the native navbar menu because the menu collapses into a “mobile menu” with a hamburger icon when viewed o smaller screens (phones). This is probably so that the menu remains responsive when switching to mobile breakpoint.

Place the cart inside of the container instead as I did. Check out the screenshot

[Webbieads (Adrienne Hodges)]

Ok, many thanks for your help, I will have a play about with that