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Often used on e-commerce or large scale websites, mega menus are becoming more and more popular, as they offer an effective solution to displaying a lot of content while keeping a clean layout. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a cross-browser, awesome CSS-only drop-down mega menu, using nice CSS3 features.
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Step 1: Building the Navigation Bar
Let’s begin with a basic menu, built with an unordered list and some basic CSS styling.
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Creating the Menu Container
We’ll now apply some basic CSS styling. For the menu container, we define a fixed width that we center by setting the left and right margins to “auto”.
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1. #menu {
2. list-style:none;
3. width:940px;
4. margin:30px auto 0px auto;
5. height:43px;
6. padding:0px 20px 0px 20px;
7. }
#menu {
list-style:none;
width:940px;
margin:30px auto 0px auto;
height:43px;
padding:0px 20px 0px 20px;
}
Now, let’s see how we can improve it with some CSS3 features. We need to use different syntaxes for Webkit-based browsers (like Safari) and for Mozilla-based browsers (like Firefox).
For rounded corners, the syntax will be :
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1. -moz-border-radius: 10px
2. -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
3. border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
For the background, we’ll use gradients and a fallback color for older browsers. To keep consistency when choosing colors, there is an awesome tool called Facade that helps you find lighter and darker tones of a basic color.
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1. background: #014464;
2. background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #0272a7, #013953);
3. background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#0272a7), to(#013953));
background: #014464;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #0272a7, #013953);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#0272a7), to(#013953));
The first line applies a simple background color (for older browsers); the second and third lines create a gradient from the top to the bottom using two colors : #0272a7 and #013953.
We can now add a darker border and polish the design with a “fake” inset border created with the “box-shadow” feature. The syntax is the same for all compatible browsers: the first value is the horizontal offset, the second one is the vertical offset, the third one is the blur radius (a small value makes it sharper; it will be 1 pixel in our example). We set all offsets to 0 so the blur value will create a uniform light border :
Final Product What You’ll Be Creating
Often used on e-commerce or large scale websites, mega menus are becoming more and more popular, as they offer an effective solution to displaying a lot of content while keeping a clean layout. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a cross-browser, awesome CSS-only drop-down mega menu, using nice CSS3 features.
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