Navigation is such an important part of your website. It’s how your visitors navigate to the main areas of your site and makes it easy for them to find your good content.
CSS is of course the perfect language for designing beautiful navigation menus. It can be applied to any type of website and is very flexible. Don’t be alarmed if your own CSS skills are fairly limited as there are a lot of great tutorials out there that walk you through how to add clean and professional looking CSS menus to your website. You can either copy and paste the code into your own design or modify the menu to suit your needs.
Today we would like to show you 100 of these tutorials; 75 horizontal CSS menu tutorials and 25 vertical CSS menu tutorials.
Horizontal CSS Menu Tutorials
2. Elegant Drop Menu with CSS Only
3. Bulletproof CSS Sliding Doors
4. Tabbed Navigation Using CSS
5. Create an Advanced CSS3 Menu – Version 2
6. Create a Slick Menu using CSS3
7. How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery
8. How to Make a CSS Sprite Powered Menu
10. Designing the Digg Header: How To & Download
11. Dynamic Page / Replacing Content
12. Create a Fun Animated Navigation Menu With Pure CSS
15. Creating a glassy non div navigation bar
16. CSS Sliding Door using only 1 image
17. CSS UL LI – Horizontal CSS Menu
18. How to Build a Kick-Butt CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu
19. A Different Top Navigation
20. Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery
21. Navigation Bar
22. CSS: drop down menu tutorial
23. RocketBar – A jQuery And CSS3 Persistent Navigation Menu
24. A Great CSS Horizontal Drop-Down Menu
25. Overlay Effect Menu with jQuery
26. Grungy Random Rotation Menu with jQuery and CSS3
27. Rocking and Rolling Rounded Menu with jQuery
28. Slide Down Box Menu with jQuery and CSS3
31. How To Create A Simple Drop Down Menu With CSS3
32. Pastel color menu with dynamic submenu using CSS
33. Creating an Animated CSS3 Horizontal Menu
34. Tutorial to create a Beautiful, simple, horizontal CSS menu
35. CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time
37. How to Code an Overlapping Tabbed Main Menu
39. Pure CSS Menu With Infinite Sub Menus Tutorial
41. CSS Sprite Navigation Tutorial
42. Create your own drop down menu with nested submenus using CSS and a little JavaScript
43. CSS Drop Down Menu Tutorial
44. Nicer Navigation with CSS Transitions
47. How to Create a CSS3 Tabbed Navigation
48. Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery
49. Create a multilevel Dropdown menu with CSS and improve it via jQuery
50. Sweet tabbed navigation using CSS3
51. Create an Advanced CSS Menu Using the Hover and Position Properties
52. Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS
53. How to Create a Horizontal Dropdown Menu with HTML, CSS and jQuery
54. CSS Express Drop-Down Menus
55. Professional Dark CSS Menu
56. Creating a Simple yet Stylish CSS Jquery Menu
58. Animated Menus Using jQuery
59. Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery
60. Animated Navigation with CSS & jQuery
61. Horizontal Subnav with CSS
62. Mega Drop Down Menus w/ CSS & jQuery
63. CSS dropdown menu without javascripting or hacks
64. CSS Drop Down Navigation Tutorial
67. Horizontal CSS Menu With Icons
68. Creating a Multi-Level Dropdown Menu using CSS and jQuery
69. Create The Fanciest Dropdown Menu You Ever Saw
70. Create A Speaking Block Navigation Menu Using Pure CSS
73. Making a CSS3 Animated Menu
74. How To Create A Clean CSS3 Navigation Bar
75. How to Create a Modern Ribbon Banner Navigation Bar with Pure HTML/CSS3
Vertical CSS Menu Tutorials
77. CSS graphic menu with rollovers
78. Vertical CSS Menu With a ‘Behavior’ File
79. Super Fantastic CSS Navigation Image Rollovers
80. Vertical Menu with Hover Effect using CSS
81. How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery
83. Create a Social Media Sharing Menu Using CSS and jQuery
84. CSS3 Minimalistic Navigation Menu
85. Beautiful Slide Out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
86. Awesome Cufonized Fly-out Menu with jQuery and CSS3
87. Two CSS vertical menu with show/hide effects
88. Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery
89. Clean and Attractive jQuery Vertical Menu Tutorial
91. CSS menus
94. Reinventing a Drop Down with CSS and jQuery
95. Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style
96. CSS Vertical Navigation with Teaser
97. jQuery style menu with CSS3
98. Green Vertical Navigation Menu
99. CSS: Sexy Vertical Popup Menu with CSS
Overview
We hope you have enjoyed this list of CSS navigation menus and found something useful for your site (We made a point of including a mix of different menu styles: basic menus, flashy menus, menus which use jquery, menus that use pure CSS etc). If you know of any other great CSS menu tutorials, please feel free to share them in the comment area. :)
About the Author
Kevin Muldoon is a webmaster and blogger who lives in Central Scotland. His current project is WordPress Mods; a blog which focuses on WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tutorials, News and Modifications.