Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Excellent CSS Navigation Bar Techniques

1. The Menu menu

The Menu menu

This another great CSS menu Stu Nicholls that’s unique – hovering over a menu item reveals a submenu. If you want get started with this menu just simple view the source code. Demo in page.

2. Pure CSS hover menu

Pure CSS hover menuView Demo
In this CSS technique, you’ll learn to create a vertically-oriented CSS hover menu that reveals a submenu when a menu item is hovered on.

3. Matte CSS Menu

Matte
 CSSView Demo
Matte is a simple CSS menu with rounded corners using two small images only from 13styles. It is maintained by David Appleyard who has lots of simple and advanced CSS-based menus.

4. CSS Blur Menu

CSS Blur MenuView Demo
This CSS technique shows you a method from creating a menu that blurs sibling menu items when you hover over an item.

5. CSS Navigation with Glowing Icons

CSS Navigation with Glowing IconsView Demo
This beautiful CSS menu technique can be created by following along this extensive step-by-step tutorial.

6. CSS Sliding Door using only 1 image

CSS Sliding Door using only 1 imageView Demo
This slick CSS menu is based on the Sliding Doors technique but only uses one image.

7. Navigation Matrix Reloaded

Navigation Matrix ReloadedView Demo
This stylish navigation menu technique uses a CSS sprite.

8. CSS Horizontal Menu

CSS Horizontal MenuView Demo
Ian Main provides a great set of free CSS menus that are stylish and easy to use.

9. Woody CSS Menu

Woody CSS Menu.
Woody is a pre-made CSS menu that’s ready to use and has been tested in IE6, IE 7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome. Demo in the page.

10. Advanced CSS Menu

Advanced CSS Menu
Advanced CSS Menu was created by Nick La and uses an advanced (extraordinary) list menu utilizing the CSS position property. Demo in the page.

11. Simple Yellow Tabbed

Simple Yellow Tabbed
This menu is from CSS Menu Generator which has more free high quality menus. Demo in the page.

12. Vimeo-Like Top Navigation

Vimeo-Like Top NavigationView Demo
This CSS-based navigation menu is based on the Vimeo primary menu.

13. Apple Like Colorful CSS Menu

Apple Like Colorful CSS Menu
Learn a technique for mimicking Apple’s image rollover CSS menu by following along this menu tutorial. Demo in page.

14. CSS Hoverbox

CSS Hoverbox
Inspired by the Hoverbox Image Gallery technique developed by Nathan Smith, CSS Hoverbox leans on the background-position CSS property to superimpose rollover images on top of neighboring menu items. Demo in page.

15. Big CSS Box

Big
 CSS Box
This is an experimental CSS menu that allows you to create a scaling menu that adjusts depending on the browser’s width. Demo in page.

16. Simple CSS-based drop-down menu

Simple CSS-based drop-down menuView Demo
This is a very basic CSS-based drop-down menu that’s excellent for trying to grok the technique involved in creating drop-down menu that doesn’t require client-side scripting.

17. Two Level Horizontal Navigation in CSS

Two Level Horizontal Navigation in CSSView Demo
Veerle Pieters provides a CSS menu and tutorial created using text-indent CSS property.

18. Uberlink CSS List Menus

Uberlink CSS List MenusView Demo
This CSS navigation bar looks and behaves like an image-swapping menu.

19. CSS-Only Accordion Effect

CSS-Only Accordion EffectView Demo
In this technique, you’ll witness a method for creating a CSS-based accordion menu.

20. Tabbed Navigation Using CSS

Tabbed Navigation Using CSS
Here is another excellent method for creating a module tab interface based purely on CSS. Use the tabs in the page to learn about the instructions on how to implement this technique.

21. CSS Mini Tabs (the UN-tab, tab)

CSS
 Mini Tabs (the UN-tab, tab)View Demo
This CSS menu on the popular web design agency SimpleBits shows a way for creating mini tabs. View the source code on the demo page to learn how it works (the code is inline and formatted well for readability for your convenience).

22. Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style

Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal StyleView Demo
This A List Apart CSS menu technique is for a fly-out submenu that appears on the right of the top-level menu, leveraging the position: absolute CSS property to move the submenu to the appropriate level.

23. List Into a Navigation Bar

List Into a Navigation BarView Demo
Roger Johansson of 456 Berea Street shows us the basic principles of turning an unordered list into a navigation bar – it’s a great starting point for beginners to learn about building a semantic HTML structure and then styling it with CSS.

24. CSS Tabs with Submenus

CSS Tabs with Submenus
This CSS menu technique will allow you to create CSS tabs that have submenus for a two-level hierarchy. Demo in page.

25. CSS Block Navigation Menu

CSS Block Navigation Menu
This CSS menu technique allows you to create a navigation menu that has item with descriptions. Demo in page.

26. XHTML & CSS Sprite Navigation

XHTML & CSS Sprite NavigationView Demo
This stylish CSS sprite menu technique has three states: idle, hover, and clicked.

27. XHTML CSS Tabbed Menu

XHTML CSS Tabbed MenuView Demo
Learn how to create module tabs without the use of client-side scripting.

28. Cool, Simple, Horizontal CSS Menu

XHTML & CSS Sprite NavigationView Demo
Learn to create a straightforward technique for creating a CSS based menu.

29. CSS Menu with Descriptions

CSS Menu with DescriptionsView Demo
This technique showcases a method for creating a menu that expands when hovered upon.

30. CSS Hover Button

CSS Hover ButtonView Demo
Create CSS button-style navigation menu by checking out this excellent tutorial.

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