To use an overlaid page in your site, right-click a page in the Pages menu and set it to Overlay. You can choose to have it simply appear, or you can set a transition animation for when the page is opened and/or closed.
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Next, set up a link to it: select text, an icon, or an image in a different page on your site, open the Link menu (⌘K) and select your overlaid page from the “Link to Page” menu. When a link to an overlaid page is clicked, the page is loaded on top of the currently visible page, without affecting it in any way.
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Unlike when linking to regular pages, linking to an overlaid page does not show the page’s URL in the browser’s address bar.
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Overlays can layered on top of each other. The most recently linked-to overlay will be at the top. There is no limit to the amount of overlaid pages that you can create.
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When “Open on load” is turned On, the overlaid page is displayed when the site is first loaded. When this option is turned On on a page that is within a Set, the overlaid page is displayed when any other page in that Set is visited.
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Overlaid pages can be closed by clicking outside or when navigating (when a link in the overlaid page is clicked). As well, there is a “Close Overlay” option in the Link menu (within the “Navigate” menu), which can be used to make a close button (i.e. “×”).
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💡 Overlays are a good way to make a “site menu” — see this page for more info.
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​💡 To make a persistent navigation menu that is visible alongside the other contents of a site, see Pinning.
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