100 Great CSS Menu Tutorials
- By Kevin Muldoon
- Posted in CSS
- 103 comments
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 professional blogger with a love of travel. He writes regularly about topics such as WordPress, Blogging, Productivity and Social Media on his personal blog. He can also be found on Twitter: @KevinMuldoon.
beejay, 23 August 2011
Very great collection. Thank you for the work.
newb, 22 September 2012
nice name.
Alinda, 23 August 2011
just tweeted a link to this site and iphone users are screaming because they CANT SEE IT !!!
Robert Bowen, 24 August 2011
Yes, Alinda, we apologize for the inconvenience, but currently the redesign is having issues on mobile devices. :( We appreciate the heads up though.
Noupe Editorial Team
Kathleen, 23 August 2011
Wow, that’s a really big collection of navigations. Very nice!
carrie, 23 August 2011
this is an awesome list – thanks for putting it together!
César, 23 August 2011
Excelente!! Gracias!
Akino, 23 August 2011
Great Collection
George Dina, 23 August 2011
Very big and awesome list of resources.
Thanks for sharing.
Kevin Muldoon, 23 August 2011
Glad you enjoyed the list. I’m working on another good WordPress related article for Noupe readers as we speak :)
lxn, 23 August 2011
Great collections Kevin!
Designerist, 24 August 2011
Thank you very much, Kevin, for collecting and compiling all those great stuff and sharing!
Great work :-)
Joel Aranha, 24 August 2011
Awesome, Thank you very much Kevin.
zohaib, 24 August 2011
must be very helpful and handy..
Houston Web Designer, 24 August 2011
Awesome set of CSS menu tutorials! Thanks for sharing this techniques.
Teylor Feliz, 24 August 2011
Great collection and thank you for adding our tutorial here!
Robert Bowen, 24 August 2011
As Kevin said, we are really glad that so many people have responded to this post so well. Glad it was useful to so many of our readers.
Noupe Editorial Team
Brittany Rubinstein, 25 August 2011
A much needed tutorial. Thanks! I’m definitely bookmarking this.
Akash, 26 August 2011
Nice Collection . :)
harry spartax, 28 August 2011
excellent list I ever met!
I got everything i need to customize navigation menu here,
thank you so much for share kevin, and to make my work easier and faster.
Great JOB!
Barbaros, 03 September 2011
Superrr Collections….
Kevin Muldoon, 06 September 2011
Glad everyone enjoyed the list :)
Hakan YILMAZ, 07 September 2011
I’m looking for a full review. thanks
Ahmed Abbouh, 10 September 2011
Amazing! i love this collection
Andrei, 10 September 2011
only can i say its woow, excelent page, congratulations from acapulco, mexico
robin, 12 September 2011
Thanks so much for these wonderful menus. They are very cool.
Designer-With-A-View, 14 September 2011
Excellent collection, Kevin!
Gave us designers a perspective to visualize the way menus look.
Nice Work!
Regards.
Jems Aarya, 21 September 2011
Thank you So much… :) you are great….
Balwan, 28 September 2011
great collection……….thank you very much..:)
Majid H, 12 October 2011
Love you man………i cant believe it. I think this is all what i wanted to know about nav bar menus. You are awesome.
Thanks
Djerba, 16 January 2012
Great listed to be marked up ;)
Tahnk you for sharing this tutorials :)
Sonish, 26 January 2012
Great work.You solved my problems.
Thanks a lot for sharing the tutorials…………..:)
Prodyot, 29 February 2012
Well, this is a list.
I mean to say- this is “quite a list”.
Actually, what I mean to say is-this is an awesome list :)
Thanks for sharing it.
Kimron, 29 February 2012
Great collection – Thank you for sharing
Emdadul Huq, 06 March 2012
very good collection
babeltekno, 25 March 2012
nice css menu collection , may be I’ll try in my project
Ali Hamdi, 25 March 2012
Very nice collection.
panara bk, 10 April 2012
thanks.
its very use full to me for my project.
Shingo Tamura, 23 April 2012
Great variety of CSS menus. Thanks for putting it together.
Justpep, 26 April 2012
Thanks for sharing a great list of CSS menus
Dhriaj, 10 May 2012
Awesome navigation menu…
Amlesh kumar, 22 May 2012
Nice bunch of menu, thanks for sharing
xodepp, 11 June 2012
thank you brother … I got so many idea about these kinds of CSS menus.
Abdul wadood, 17 June 2012
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH man thank you soooooooooo much.
i was looking for mega drop down mene for 1 month finallly find here………thank u so much
Maria, 23 June 2012
Very nice job, thanks for sharing….
Vishal Ghule, 24 June 2012
Totally amazing kind of look ,great look design by great person….
Bret Lee, 24 June 2012
so nice …….many many thanks for sharing …..
Ravi, 25 June 2012
Nice collection, thanks for sharing….
Triven, 05 July 2012
Awesome collection …
Thanks …!
amine cheddad, 12 July 2012
is very very good
ajey reddy, 15 July 2012
good collection i am going to test this on my site
sana, 30 July 2012
thanks alot
Quan Ao SI, 04 August 2012
Wow, ABS Cool!, Thanks very much.
I chosen number 5 for my site
Harmi, 06 August 2012
Great work, amazing menus, thanks for sharing.
Sabrican Ozan, 08 August 2012
Great samples , excellent work. Thank you very much.
saran, 12 August 2012
Nice collection.thanks.
Suresh R, 23 August 2012
Very nice, very usefull, keep it up
Mark Cody, 26 August 2012
CSS has come a long way in the last few years and the boundaries now seem endless. I think I may have to be revisiting this page over a few days. Thanks for sharing the concepts.
Mark
sandeep, 01 September 2012
thanks a lot my dear blogger you did a great job i was searching about drop down menu alot for my website now today i got it thanks a lot for your published articles……………… Great job …………..
Sathish kumar, 08 September 2012
nice collection
Farzad F Wadia, 20 September 2012
superb collection….
Amit, 25 September 2012
Here is one more cool menu http://www.amitpatil.me/fancy-header-navigation-menu-using-css3-and-html5/
Ahmed, 27 September 2012
Thanx a lot.
Ramzi, 30 September 2012
a lot of css menu list here
I was able to choose some form of menu that I will use
thank you
Gops, 04 October 2012
Really good one
Gops, 04 October 2012
Good One
percyvelc, 14 October 2012
Excellent contribution to style our navigation bar, there are styles for every taste. Thanks for the bonus
Topan Setiawan, 15 October 2012
amazing.’ good work friend.’
Rajkumar, 17 October 2012
Very nice it is very useful to me
sandeep, 19 October 2012
very very good collection and also very useful for learner :)
?????, 21 October 2012
Awesome, Thank you very much Kevin
all css menu collection amazing and very useful
Kiruba, 22 October 2012
Awesome Collections. Thank you so much.
Kiruba, 22 October 2012
Awesome Collections.
Amit Saswari, 01 November 2012
Superb collection……….:)
Youness, 03 November 2012
Thank u so muck :)
tasarhane, 03 November 2012
wow collection.. thanks
Beau, 08 November 2012
A great article but some of the links are broken. FYI.
Saurabh Singh, 20 November 2012
Great collection
Asad, 03 December 2012
Awesome … Website..:) …thanks….:)
Elance IT, 09 December 2012
Nice collection, this types of website menu and tutorials are very helpful for new website designer like me, this types of tutorials i am looking for.
Thank you sharinng
Riken Shah, 18 December 2012
thank u.. nice collection..
satya, 18 December 2012
Nice collection and very attrctive while using in website. Thanks
Adam R, 28 December 2012
Really great and easy to understand tutorials thankyou.
krishna, 03 January 2013
it’s very nice and good look
Milos, 11 January 2013
A truly good menu collection, no need for much more :)
Pranab, 17 January 2013
Great :) .
Muhammad Mahtab Saleem, 17 January 2013
A huge collection of very good looking css styles , I would like to try more then 10 for my projects ,
Thanks again ,
flapane, 24 January 2013
Typo on Menu #23: hhttp instead of http
Madhukar sharma, 07 February 2013
Good Collection of Navigation Bar………thank you kevin
Quan Ao SI, 07 February 2013
A Big collection of very good css styles!
Thanks
Inzam inzy, 12 February 2013
It is an awesome menu list , thank uuuuuuuuuuuu………….
smile, 22 February 2013
great collection.. thx
Yoko, 27 February 2013
this is very inspired for me.
thanks very much!!!
ozibite, 04 March 2013
Thanks for the nice tutorial collection. This is soooo cool.
Christian, 10 March 2013
Not one single menu with submenus that are clickable, just crappy ‘open when hover’ ones except for the ones that are just links. And most of them are just copies of other peoples work, not very impressive.
Dieter Petereit, 10 March 2013
Try reading something fresh, not years old posts
haris kotta, 19 March 2013
great collections to learn more things……thanks.
Rasha, 20 March 2013
This is Awesome :))) Thank u
Tom, 20 March 2013
Great menu list! Thanks very much. It’s time to create some…
Jihin Savio, 30 March 2013
Hats of Kevin….really a good job
pompa, 02 April 2013
thanks for you menus
Lakshman, 04 April 2013
Thanks , keep doing…
ram, 17 April 2013
This site is the best for beginners thanks there is many types of menu and define easy way.
thanks