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. Also you will find some useful tutorials at the end of this post where you can use to start building your own multilevel navigation menu.
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.
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. The menu can also be dragged/dropped.
5) jQuery SuckerFish- Replicate Suckerfish Menus.
6) Fancy Sliding Tab Menu using script.aculo.us
7) List Based Menu with Images- This is a menu based on an unordered list (<UL><LI>). It makes the menu easy to use and friendly to search engines.
8 ) Slide down menu- A slide menu based on an unordered list (<UL><LI>).
9) Dropdownmenu made with scriptaculous/prototype- A multi level drop down menu.
10) Suckerfish-style menu plugin for jQuery- This demonstrates a two-tiered horizontal menu that displays the path to the current page when the menu is in its idle state.
11) Building a dynamic drop down menu
12) onMenuOpen onMenuCollapse Events- This is a one-time effect that shows off the menu opening up and firing an event, and then finishing with another event.
13) Mootools menu with accordion and effects- This simple menu has a neat effect by hovering over the links, and opens a submenu with an accordion.
14) Mootools Unlimited Drop Menu
15) Creating an Outlook Navigation Bar- Using the ListView and Accordion Controls
16) Simple CSS vertical menu Digg-like- This tutorial explains how to implement a simple vertical menu digg-like using CSS and javascript to show/hide sub-menu.
17) Drop down menu with Prototype- A unique drop down navigation that recursively applies a function to an li that toggles the visibility of a nested ul element.
18) Drop down menu with nested submenus- Using CSS and a little JavaScript
19) Drop down menu with jquery- A drop down animated menu example made with jquery
20) jdMenu Hierarchical Menu- The jdMenu plugin for jQuery provides a clean, simple and elegant solution for creating hierarchical drop down menus for websites to web applications.
21) jQuery plugin: Treeview- Lightweight and flexible transformation of an unordered list into an expandable and collapsable tree, great for unobtrusive navigation enhancements.
22) Drop Down menu
24) Accordion Menu script- This example illustrates how you would add a collapsible sub level.
25) Complex Dynamic Lists- Using an unordered list, to display a hierarchical structure of a complexity that would be very hard to achieve with dynamic select boxes.
26) Chrome CSS Drop Down Menu- Chrome Menu is a CSS and JavaScript hybrid drop down menu. It’s easy to configure and search engine friendly.
Drop Down Menu Tutorials
CSS Express Drop-Down Menus- CSS Express menus should only be used in a horizontal orientation with a single drop-down level.
Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns- An accessible, light weight (just 12 lines of JavaScript), with great compatibility and can have multiple-levels.
Drop Down Menu Generator
Izzymenu- With an impressive Ajax interface, you can build your own CSS drop down DHTML sub-menu in minutes without writing a single line of code.
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JD
April 17th, 2008
Awesome!
This is exactly what I needed for a project I’m working on.
My Site
Thanks,
-JD
Siddharth
April 17th, 2008
Nice tutorial here, I use Dreamweaver for web design and in My opinion, sub categories navigation is not so good looking in vertical menu. But I like them as drop down in horizontal navigation. Off course who like opening a door and finding one more door in it?
jeremy
April 17th, 2008
People are still using multilevel drop down menus?
Gunner Si
April 17th, 2008
Sweet post! An option for every use, i was just looking at these at work today. These are a pain in the @ss to handcode! Thanks for the linkage
chris
April 18th, 2008
sweet set! now to show off mine:
http://www.hkturnaround.com
built using scriptaculous/prototype. Thought i’d spice things up a bit!
Anthony Ettinger
April 18th, 2008
Great solutions…I find the 2nd level tabs don’t work well, since IE6 doesn’t like punching out of the parent’s container.
knurów
April 23rd, 2008
thanks, I was looking for drop down menu and I found this list
Acronyms
April 27th, 2008
Drop downs are old school.
C
April 28th, 2008
Please don’t use multi-level drop downs. They are html evil incarnate! If you find yourself in a situation where you have no choice, you took a wrong turn somewhere and need to go back and retrace your steps.
C
April 28th, 2008
I should say that single level drop downs are ok and in many places a good design choice, just avoid taking them multi-level.
Ajay kamat
May 3rd, 2008
cool !!
realy gud menu.
thanks buddy.
Ajay Kamat
M.S. Babaei
May 11th, 2008
great thanks!
it’s very useful!
I worked for hours and hours and make nothing
thanks again!!!
.wired
May 30th, 2008
Wanted to add my dropdown navigation tutorial, too: http://blog.masterplane.de/informationstechnik/programmierung/css/vertikale-aufklappnavigation
Greetings
zipper
June 5th, 2008
very cool)) thanks so much!!!
Chris
June 24th, 2008
what about accessibility (508) and JAWS reading submenu items? I can’t get the readers to “see” the submenus. I have run into this problem with no solution.
Subhash
July 18th, 2008
where are the files to download in “Mootools menu with accordion and effects”.
kacupeng
July 22nd, 2008
i have question for you !!!
can i put professional drop down menu in my blog site???
how can i get it ???
could you tell me please how to put drop down menu in my blog ???
thanks before