[kh99]

Actually, it's my fault - I see now the original question is how you would move it to the navbar from the header. I kind of came in in the middle and got confused.

Anyway, it's the same advice - find the code in the header that displays notifications_total and notifications_menubits, and copy it to your navbar template. As it turns out, those are already registered to the navbar template, so you don't have to worry about that (probably it's left over from vb3 or something). Here's the code from the header template:

<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">
<li class="popupmenu notifications" id="notifications">
	<a class="popupctrl" href="usercp.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase your_notifications}: <span class="notifications-number"><strong>{vb:raw notifications_total}</strong></span></a>
	<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
		{vb:raw notifications_menubits}
	</ul>
</li>
<vb:else />
<li class="popupmenu nonotifications" id="nonotifications">
	<a class="popupctrl" href="usercp.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase your_notifications}</a>
	<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
		<li>{vb:rawphrase no_new_messages}</li>
		<vb:if condition="$show['pmmainlink']"><li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase inbox}</a></li></vb:if>
	</ul>
</li>
</vb:if>

but that uses <li> tags because it's inside <ul> tags, so if you don't have the same situation in your navbar template then you'll have to do something about that.