When it comes to web design, navigation is considered as one of the major part of a website. Website navigation helps visitors to interact with different pages of a website. A simple, clean and minimal design always grabs the attention of visitors.
Today, we have selected 25+ pure CSS based navigation responsive menus. Which one of these do you think is the most comprehensive?
Pure CSS Based Multi Level Responsive Navigation Menu: BootM
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
With more and more robust CSS frameworks coming each day, it has become very easy to create responsive HTML documents. In fact it’s now a fun thing to work the HTML and CSS using these CSS frameworks. Combining these frameworks with some CSS3 features you can create widgets like menus without writing any JavaScript.
We are providing a menu system using the famous bootstrap CSS framework and we call it BootM. BootM is a pure CSS based navigation system, its responsive, supports unlimited levels and icons as well.
Tutorial: Creative, CSS3-Powered And Animated Menus
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Being in the mood for experimenting with CSS3, I’d like to show you some creative menu hover effects in today’s tutorial. The idea is to have a simple composition of elements, an icon, a main title and a secondary title, that will be animated on hover using only CSS transitions and animations. We’ll be exploring some different effects for the elements.
Free Tool to Create CSS3 Navigations – CSS3 Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
You can build a cool rounded navigation menu, with no images and no Javascript, and effectively make use of the new CSS3 properties border-radius and animation. This menu works perfectly well with Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. The dropdown also works on non-CSS3 compitable browsers such as IE7+, but the rounded corners and shadow will not be rendered. CSS3 transitions could one day replace all the fancy jQuery animation tricks people use.
Tutorial: How to Create a CSS3 Dropdown Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
In this tutorial we will code in pure CSS3 the Navigation Menu. We will create an unordered list with a list item and an anchor tag for each menu link. To create the sub menu add another unordered list inside of the list.
Creating a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
What a dropdown menu provides is a hierarchical overview of the subsections contained within the menu item that spawned it. Basically, it lists all the subsections within a section of a site when you hover your mouse cursor over it.
A lot of dropdown menus rely on bulky, extraneous markup and Javascript to work, ours will use only the cleanest HTML and some lean CSS, with some lovely progressive CSS3 for good measure.
Free CSS Menu for Everyone – CSS Menu Builder
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
CSS Menu Builder is an online menu builder which enables you to create 30+ horizontal, 700+ vertical & breadcrumb menus. With an Ajaxed & simple to use interface, menus can be created on the fly and HTML, CSS & necessary image files can be downloaded easily.
Navigataur – A Pure CSS Responsive Navigation Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Navigataur is a simple CSS snippet for stylish responsive navigation menus. To use navigataur.css, reference the stylesheet in the <head> of your document (or you can place within your own stylesheet). To work out of the box, you will need to make adjustments to your markup (classes can be changed in the stylesheet if you use something different).
HTML5/CSS3 Gray Navigation Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Today’s freebie is another navigation menu, but, this time, one built using only HTML5 and CSS3.
No images were used, just CSS. It is cross-browser compatible and was optimized for IE7 and above.
Pure CSS Navigation Bar with No Image Files or JavaScript
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
A navigation bar styled purely with CSS is easier to modify and reuse than one dependent on image files or JavaScript. Pure CSS Navigation Bar uses CSS to layout the buttons horizontally by disabling list-style-type and displaying the list items as table-cell elements.
Vertical Slide Hover Effect for Menu Bars with CSS3
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
This is a very simple effect, we have seen it a million times. But earlier, it always had to be flash or JavaScript or something similar to create this kind of dynamism, but thanks to CSS3, we can don’t need them now.
This kind of effects and transitions make it easy to add a wowing effect into simple navigation bars, and that’s why I love them so much.
Free CSS Menus From Dynamic Drive
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Dynamic Drive, a great resource for web designers & developers has a nice collection of free CSS menus that you may find handy.
There are several horizontal and vertical menu examples, buttons, pagination samples & more. Besides these CSS menus, Dynamic Drive is worth to browse deeply & regularly as new resources are added frequently.
Create a Stunning Menu in CSS3
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
The advent of CSS3 has introduced a world of possibilities for web designers and developers. With animations, shadows, rounded corners and more, elements can be easily styled, and still weigh less than ever before.
The navigation of a website is one of the most fundamental aspects to make or break a user’s experience. Instead of loading your menu down with individual images or sprites, why not do the entire thing in CSS3?
No need for jQuery or JavaScript; no need to launch Photoshop. And let’s take it up a notch by including a great icon font to add some character to our menu.
So grab your favorite cup of coffee (or if you’re like me, an ice cold Diet Coke), open up your favorite code editor, and let’s make a slick navigation menu using only CSS3.
Blur Effect on Navigation Bar – CSS3 Transition
There are many transitions in CSS3, I’ve shared a few of them before, and I’m sharing another one today.
This is blur effect transition. You can use it anywhere, I tried it with the navigation bar and the result was pretty amazing.
Advanced CSS Menu Trick
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
This is uses a unique effect from CSS3. When you rollover any menu item, all the nonactive items of the menu get blurred. Sounds simple enough but the results are not bad. Have a look.
Tutorial: Creating CSS Only Horizontal Navigation
There are many features you can use in CSS to create great looking navigation menus, in this tutorial the look will be very simple but I will show you the CSS needed to create the drop down menus on mouse hover of the list items.
For this tutorial all you need is a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Pure CSS3 LavaLamp Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
I think that you have already seen animated menus with LavaLamp effect (based on jQuery plugin). Today I would like you to tell how to repeat same behavior only with CSS3 (without any javascript). I have to use CSS3 transitions in our menu (to animate elements). So, if you are ready, lets start.
Tutorial: How To Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
With the help of some advanced selectors a dropdown menu can be easily created with CSS. Throw in some fancy CSS3 properties and you can create a design that was once only achievable with background images and Javascript. Follow this tutorial to see the step by step process of building your own pure CSS dropdown menu.
Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Create Beautiful CSS Menus with Menu Maker
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Create beautiful CSS menus with our Menu Maker. Copy and paste the HTML and CSS, or download all the source files.
How to Create a Modern Ribbon Banner Navigation Bar with Pure HTML/CSS3
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
As CSS3 becomes more robust and is more widely supported, the options for fun modern design elements that can be created without graphics are virtually limitless! For a recent project, I decided to see if I could create a centered ribbon banner with pure CSS3. This tutorial will walk you through how it was done.
As it turns out, it’s actually quite easy, using only simple, semantic HTML and some CSS3 trickery thanks to the magic of the the border-width property. The only caveat: As with all new CSS3 techniques, it can act a bit wonky in some IE browsers… we’ll address that at the end of the tutorial.
Attractive Sitemaps With SlickMap CSS
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished site maps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.
The general idea of SlickMap CSS is to streamline the web design process by automating the illustration of site maps while at the same time allowing for the pre-development of functional HTML navigation.
Making a CSS3 Animated Menu
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
In this short tutorial, we will be using the power of CSS3 effects and transitions, to build a JavaScript-free animated navigation menu which you can use to add a polished look to your website or template. We will be using some neat features such as the :target pseudo selector and :after elements.
Windows 7 Start Menu using CSS3 Only
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Create a Fun Animated Navigation Menu With Pure CSS
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
CSS3 offers a glimpse into a possible future where basic animations are performed with straight CSS completely independent of scripting. Today we’ll take a look at how to use CSS3 to create a fun and unique navigation menu that uses @font-face, transforms and transitions.
Digg-like Navigation Bar using CSS
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Navigation bar with rounded corners an sliding doors technique for background images, Digg inspired.
This tutorial explains how to design a digg-like navigation bar using a liquid design with rounded corners for links.
The post 25+ Pure CSS Based Navigation Menus appeared first on EGrappler.