Property or Parameter for Layout Area

I've got a fairly standard 2 column fixed layout with the side navigation (area) is on the left side. I'm trying to create an alternate version where the Side Navigation shows on right. In CSS terms it's very easy to add a class that will adjust the presentation.

Struggling to find out if there is a way to do this without creating a new layout. That is, is there a way to define a property or parameter that when editing the page the user choses the existing layout and specifies either the option (left / right) or additional CSS classes that drive the location of the side navigation.

I've included the relevant row from my layout which is pretty standard fare (I think). Early days of using LS, please excuse if terminology is off.

[html]

Side Navigation

Main

[/html]

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Rick Poulin

There isn't, at least not in the user-friendly way you'd like. There's various things you could do to avoid a new layout, like using a different page controller, or basing the decision on EAs, or detecting the presence of a component...

The easiest way might be to have a datum on your "left nav" component to produce a PAGE_SCOPE variable, whose value is then used as the class on your <body> tag, but that assumes that this is the only component that can (and must) be used to switch sides.