HTML CSS JS NavMenus
Navigation menus
Navigation menus are a crucial component of any website. They provide a quick and easy way for users to navigate around the site and find the content they’re looking for. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to create a navigation menu in JavaScript.
To create a navigation menu in JavaScript, we first need to create the HTML structure of the menu. Here’s an example:
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>Home</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>About</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Services</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
This creates a basic navigation menu with four links: Home, About, Services, and Contact.
Next, we need to add some CSS to style the menu. Here’s an example:
nav {
background-color: #333;
}
nav ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
nav ul li {
float: left;
}
nav ul li a {
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
nav ul li a:hover {
background-color: #111;
}
This will create a basic navigation menu with a dark background, white text, and hover effect when the user hovers over a link.
Finally, we need to add some JavaScript to make the menu responsive. Here’s an example:
const menuIcon = document.querySelector(‘.menu-icon’);
const menu = document.querySelector(‘nav ul’);
menuIcon.addEventListener(‘click’, () => {
menu.classList.toggle(‘show’);
});
This code adds an event listener to the menu icon, which when clicked toggles the show class on the nav ul element. This makes the menu visible or hidden depending on its current state.
And that’s it! With these simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code snippets, you can create a responsive navigation menu for your website.
responsive menu with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Responsive menu with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS! A responsive menu is one that adapts to different screen sizes, so that it remains easy to use on both desktop and mobile devices.
Here’s some sample code for creating a responsive menu:
HTML Markup:
<header>
<nav>
<ul class=”menu”>
<li><a href=”#”>Home</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>About</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Services</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Contact</a></li>
<li class=”menu-toggle”><a href=”#”>Menu</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
This HTML markup creates a navigation menu with five links: Home, About, Services, Contact, and a “Menu” button that will be used to toggle the menu on small screens. The menu is contained within a <nav> element, and each link is contained within a <li> element. The links themselves are represented by the <a> element, with the href attribute set to # (a placeholder link, since we haven’t defined the actual pages yet).
CSS Styling:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}
header {
background-color: #333;
color: #fff;
padding: 20px;
}
nav {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.menu {
display: flex;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.menu li {
margin-right: 20px;
}
.menu li:last-child {
margin-right: 0;
}
.menu a {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.menu-toggle {
display: none;
}
@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
.menu {
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
transition: height 0.5s ease-out;
}
.menu-toggle {
display: block;
}
.menu-toggle a {
display: block;
padding: 10px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
background-color: #333;
border-radius: 5px;
}
.show {
height: 150px;
}
.menu li {
margin: 10px 0;
}
}
This CSS styles the navigation menu to give it a more attractive appearance and to make it responsive. The body element has some basic styles to remove default margins and paddings and set the font-family.
The header element has a background color of #333 and a text color of #fff. The nav element is displayed as a flex container with space between the items.
The .menu class is used to style the unordered list element, with the flex-direction property set to row, and the list-style, margin, and padding properties set to none. Each list item has a margin-right of 20px, except for the last item which has a margin-right of 0.
The <a> elements inside the .menu class are styled to have a white color and no text decoration.
The .menu-toggle class is used to hide the “Menu” button by default. When the screen size is smaller than 768px, the .menu class has