Removing the navbar from your site

This article explains what Blogger's navBar is, what features it offers, and how to turn it off if your blog-site doesn't benefit from these features

What is the navBar in a Blogger blog?

At the top of most blogger blogs, there is a strip with some handy functions on it.

This stripe is called the navBar (short in support of navigation bar), and it can be incredibly handy in support of your readers - if individuals readers are Blogger users, or by the side of smallest amount Google users, and so value it.   For others, however, it's precisely clutter, and a litter of perhaps 15px of above-the-fold deep space.

On the left hand side, the navigation bar (aka the blogger bar) has tools for visitors to your blog:

• A quick link to the Blogger software, ie www.Blogger.com  (the capital B icon on the left)
• Search - access to a very cut down search function
• Follow - a quick way to follow your blog
• Share - a very simple set of social-networking share buttons
• Report Abuse - linking to Google reporting centre
• Next Blog - a link that takes the reader to a semi-randomly chosen blog made with Blogger (semi-random because it's matched on topic, to some extent)

On the right hand side, if you are logged in and looking at a blog which you have administrative rights to you can see:

• Your Google account name
• A new post link 
• A link to the Blogger Design tab for the blog you are currently viewing
• A sign out link, to let you log off your Google account. 

Or if a visitor is logged in, but doesn't have administrative rights for the blog they are looking at (ie if they are a visitor looking at your blog), they can see

• Their own Google account name
• A link to their own Blogger dashboard 
• A sign out link, to let them log out of their Google account. 

These functions allow their uses, although I wouldn't rely on frequent to comprehend them:  If you care for your blog to be general, you'd be far better inedible count your own custom search engine and social networking icons).

But if you care for your blog to look like a website, the navBar be supposed to be on your hit-list of things to be distant.

(And if you're wondering why your blog doesn't allow these handy functions by the side of the top, it's either as your templates already has them distant, or as you are using a blog with a dynamic stencil:  These don't allow a nav ban by the side of all.)

How to take the navBar off your site:

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UPDATE: 

The following is now redundant, because Blogger have added an Off option to the navBar options. It's being kept here for reference only.

Also the Off option leaves an empty space at the top of the blog - you can remove it using this simple tip.

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To get rid of the navBar, just follow the usual way of adding a CSS rule to your template, and add this rule:

#navbar-iframe { height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none;} 

And if you want to close up the space at the top where the nav-bar used to be, add this CSS rule too:

#navbar { height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none;}

How to report abuse on a blog that has the navBar removed:

Some frequent might remove the navBar as they care for to service Blogger in support of purposes so as to are aligned with the expressions and conditions, and don't care for to be reported.

Sadly in support of them, the lack of a "Report Abuse" link doesn't help very much: If you comprehend a blog so as to you care for to shot, you can simply used Blogger's expressions of service complaint submission order, and type in the link to the blog or blog-post manually.

Do turn into certain so as to you re-evaluation the register of things so as to Blogger will take complaints almost:  It's not a fine notion to progress a reputation as someone who cries wolf, precisely in holder you need to shot something actual soon.