Multilevel Drop Down Navigation Menus: Examples and Tutorials - Noupe Design Blog. Apr 17 2008 Navigation menus are the most important element one should pay attention when designing a website. Web-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS. Javascript makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible navigation to any website. This article presents over 25 (horizontal and vertical) multilevel drop down menu built using Javascript and CSS which you can use in your future projects. You might check out these posts as well: Horizontal and vertical drop down menus 1) Drop Down Tabs (5 styles)- Drop Down Tabs is a horizontal CSS tabs menu that supports a second level drop down menu for each of its tabs. 2) Professional Dropdown 3) Multi-level effect menu- Is a very configurable javascript/css hybrid dropdown menu that is capable of producing simple menus(both horizontal and vertical). 4) FastFind Menu- A jQuery nested menus, based on dynamic “AJAX” responses. 6) Fancy Sliding Tab Menu using script.aculo.us.
CSS Menu Tutorial - Horizontal and Vertical CSS Menus. Tutorials provided by Claire from Tanfa CSS Design, Style and Fun - Musing Over the Possibilities What follows is an example of how to develop menus similar to the ones shown here and here. This mini-tutorial uses very similar code to cover the main ingredients for both those menus, they can be developed further by adding background images or more color. Requirements for Both CSS Menus Note: Anything we do from this point on will not affect text browsers or non CSS parsing applications. It's CSS, it will only affect the visual presentation. Vertical Pop Out Menu The CSS above removes the padding/margin and bullets from all the lists, sets the width of the the entire menu and styles the links and heading to suit.
View the results so far, if you like, remembering to view with a non-IE browser please. Positioning the Pop Outs The position: relative; applied to the #menu li makes the <li> elements into containing blocks for the nested <ul> elements. Hiding and Revealing using :hover Color to taste. Whatever:hover. Hi there! This script is from 2003, and targets a flaw in IE6, which at its peak was a really popuplar browser. Today (oct 2011) it no longer is, and as such this script should not really be necessary anymore. Please try to convice your client, project manager or boss, that not every browser needs to display a website the exact same way; it is the content that matters.
And if you really still need to support IE6, don't use :hover for interaction. This page (and script) will stay here for old times' sake. updated: november 15, 2009 (changes) Whatever:hover 3.11 Most modern browsers support the :hover selector for any html element. Whatever:hover is a small script that automatically patches :hover, :active and :focus for IE6, IE7 and IE8 quirks, letting you use them like you would in any other browser. If you're already familiar with whatever:hover and just want to download it, scroll down and grab the latest version. Getting it to work How do I use it? IE only behaviours How does it work? Horizontal CSS Menu Tutorial ~ Example Page 7.
CSS DropDown Menu Tutorial Page 2. CSS Menu Tutorial - Horizontal and Vertical CSS Menus.