How to make a multilevel navigation Menu using CSS & jQuery
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:10 pm
The result is something like this:
The only thing you have to do is to create nested <ul> lists into a main list with id="nav", in this way:
Use this basic CSS code (you have to modify it to customize the layout of this menu with the style of your site.
This is the JavaScript code for jQuery you have to copy in the tag <head> of the pages that use this menu.
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<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 3</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Link 3.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 3.2</a></li>
<ul>
</li>
</ul>
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#nav, #nav ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style-type:none;
list-style-position:outside;
position:relative;
line-height:26px;
}
#nav a:link,
#nav a:active,
#nav a:visited{
display:block;
color:#FFF;
text-decoration:none;
background:#444;
height:26px;
line-height:26px;
padding:0 6px;
margin-right:1px;
}
#nav a:hover{
background:#0066FF;
color:#FFF;
}
#nav li{
float:left;
position:relative;
}
#nav ul {
position:absolute;
width:12em;
top:26px;
display:none;
}
#nav li ul a{
width:12em;
float:left;
}
#nav ul ul{
width:12em;
top:auto;
}
#nav li ul ul {margin:0 0 0 13em;}
#nav li:hover ul ul,
#nav li:hover ul ul ul,
#nav li:hover ul ul ul ul{display:none;}
#nav li:hover ul,
#nav li li:hover ul,
#nav li li li:hover ul,
#nav li li li li:hover ul{display:block;}
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<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showmenu(){
$("#nav li").hover(function(){
$(this).find('ul:first').css({visibility:"visible", display:"none"}).show();
}, function(){
$(this).find('ul:first').css({visibility:"hidden"});
});
}
$(document).ready(function(){
showmenu();
});
</script>