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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+  <head>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/default/style.css" type="text/css" />
+    <style type="text/css">
+        #map {
+            width: 800px;
+            height: 475px;
+            border: 1px solid black;
+        }
+        
+        #paneldiv { float: right }
+        #paneldiv div { 
+          top: 10px; 
+        }
+        
+    </style>
+    <script src="../lib/OpenLayers.js"></script>
+    <script type="text/javascript">
+        <!--
+        var lon = 5;
+        var lat = 40;
+        var zoom = 5;
+        var map, layer;
+
+        function init(){
+            map = new OpenLayers.Map( 'map', { controls: [new OpenLayers.Control.PanZoom()] } );
+            layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "OpenLayers WMS", 
+                    "http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0", {layers: 'basic'} );
+            map.addLayer(layer);
+            var panel = new OpenLayers.Control.NavToolbar({'div':OpenLayers.Util.getElement('paneldiv')});
+            map.addControl(panel);
+            map.setCenter(new OpenLayers.LonLat(lon, lat), zoom);
+            
+        }
+        // -->
+    </script>
+  </head>
+  <body onload="init()">
+    <h1 id="title">Navigation Toolbar: Outside the Map</h1>
+    <div id="paneldiv" class="olControlNavToolbar"></div>
+    <div id="map"></div>
+    <div id="docs">
+     <p> To place the Naviation Toolbar outside the map:</p>
+      <ul>
+        <li>Load the default stylesheet into the page.</li>
+        <li>Override the location of the Navigation toolbar in your CSS by setting <tt>#yourElementId div</tt> to have a top of 0px</li>
+        <li>Specify the HTML element as a 'div' option in your NavToolbar constructor</li>
+        <li>Add the olControlNavToolbar class to your div.</li>
+      </ul>
+      <pre id="code">
+&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/default/style.css" type="text/css" />
+&lt;style type="text/css">
+  #paneldiv { float: right; }
+  #paneldiv div { 
+    top: 10px; 
+  }
+&lt;/style>
+&lt;div id="paneldiv" class="olControlNavToolbar">&lt;/div>
+
+...
+
+var panel = new OpenLayers.Control.NavToolbar({'div':OpenLayers.Util.getElement('paneldiv')});
+</pre>
+   </div> 
+   
+  </body>
+</html>
