10 Beautiful CSS Menu Examples Tools

1. Smart Responsive Menu

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Smart Responsive Menu is powerful dropdown menu solution that will work with mobile devices and different screen sizes. Menu relies on CSS media queries to modify menu display for different resolutions. For less than 480px, menu changes from CSS navigation menu into vertical and gets hidden behind the menu item. Due to the many differences between mobile browsers, different support for CSS, menu must use JavaScript to make up for these problems. There is no way to make menu universally work without use of JavaScript.Plugin control is done by combining CSS classes on the menu element with many options available with the jQuery plugin.You can combine different effects to display the menu:

Menu Links: with three types of characters and arrows

Various demos and examples to show how menu can be set

Full source files for both CSS and jQuery

Minimized CSS and JS files with split and merged styles

Added: Vertical menu open/close animation

Updated: Demo files and examples

Changed: Few improvements to the core CSS styles

Fixed: Box-shadow effect for menu toggle state

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2. CSS3 Menu

CSS3 Menu

CSS3 is changing how we build websites. Even though many of us are still reluctant to start using CSS3 due to the lack of support in some browsers, there are those out there that are moving forw

ard and doing some amazing stuff with its cool new features. No longer will we have to rely on so much JavaScript and images to create nice looking website elements such as buttons and menu navigations.

You can build a cool rounded navigation menu, with no images and no Javascript, and effectively make use of the new CSS3 properties border-radius and animation.

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3. Zozo Tabs

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All customization can be handled via jQuery options, HTML5 data attributes and CSS. Zozo Tabs allows you to create custom themes and customize your own build suited to your individual needs, modify, include or remove certain modules (reduce size of css by 90%) such as vertical, underlined, multiline, responsive etc. But for beginners and anyone new to CSS it is highly recommended to just start with the full package, without having to worry which modules are necessary.Added: Lighter weight, more efficient and completely reorganised, cleaned and commented CSS style. Added: Source folder which contains all modules of the Zozo Tabs divided into multiple small CSS files. Added: Two templates/examples clean tabs and ajax content

Added: Option maxRows which will be used to switch to CSS dropdown menu tutorial when executed

Added: Option minWindowWidth which will be used switch to CSS dropdown menu generator

Improved: All templates/examples and added jQuery as a parameter to the ready method instead of $ to avoid conflicts with other libraries

Touch-Enabled – Tabs are displayed in a CSS simple dropdown menu with touch enabled events and fast CSS3 Transitions, view Mobile Tabs

14 Examples/templates – We’ve created fourteen templates to get you started quickly, View All Templates

Automatically Scrolling – When clicking on tabs/downlown menu on smaller screens, it will scroll automatically to show your content. Source and Minified CSS

Source folder for advanced css customization (create your own build with specific modules to minize the size)

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4. Sky Mega Menu

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Sky Mega Menu is a clean, responsive solution for creation beautiful site navigations. The drop menu code relies only on CSS/XHTML and comes with 3 mobile versions, different positions, 9 beautiful color schemes, commonly used forms, grid system and much more.If you like Sky Mega Menu, please don’t forget to rate!

Different color schemesEach color scheme has it’s own css file, that can be easily modified for creation your own colors.Useful examplesYou can use these examples as a base for creation your own navigations simple and fast.I was having troubles with the menu due to my stupidness and Voky sat with me for almost the entire night fixing my problem.

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5. Pull-Out Content Panel

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The custom scrollbars packed in this menu will automatically appear when needed and if you need to add even more content, you can use the infinite carousel to scroll between each part of the panel. Here are a few examples of the possible usages :

This menu has been tested on many devices and browsers to ensure a maximum compatibility : Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari have successfully passed the tests.

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6. Smart Responsive Breadcrumbs

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Breadcrumbs rely on CSS media queries to modify and display for different resolutions. For less than 480px, menu changes from horizontal navigation bar CSS into vertical and gets hidden behind the menu item. Due to the many differences between mobile browsers, different support for CSS, breadcrumbs must use JavaScript to work as expected.Breadcrumbs are fully responsive, and they will work fine on the small screens (mobile/touch devices) and will turn into menu for easier navigation with a limited space.Plugin control is done by combining CSS classes on the breadcrumbs element with many options available with the jQuery plugin.You can combine different effects to display the menu:

Various demos and examples to show how menu can be set

Full source files for both CSS and jQuery

Minimized CSS and JS files

Added: New effect for compact menu display

Added: Random styles and effects examples page

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7. jQuery Live Menu

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jQuery Live Menu is a easing jQuery plugin wordpress that allows you to create easily nice and animated menus.Tooltips are positioned intelligently and they are fully customizable : gradient, css …

Documentation and examples (click on Live Preview)

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8. jPie jQuery Circular Menu

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jPie is a Contextual Circular Menu for jQuery.Fully customizable layouts, using an external CSS and specific themes.Ability to associate to each element of the DOM own context menu

Can replace the CSS menu hover of the browser

Thanks to its methods and attributes, each menu can play several roles:

Context menu

Navigation menu

For few examples of code you can check the FAQ Section

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9. Pure CSS3 Fish Eye Menu

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I love Mac and I love Fish Eye Menu. 4 menu positions (bottom, top, left, right)

8 useful examples

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10. Pure CSS3 Round Menu

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Pure CSS3 Round Menu is a clean, customizable solution for creation different menus and navigations. Menu relies only on CSS/HTML and comes with lots customization options, unlimited color combinations and much more.If you liked Round Menu, please don’t forget to rate it!

34 examples.

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11. Universal Responsive Mega Menu

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This menu is the result of a combination of my best works on Codecanyon : I’ve put together a flexible mega menu system that can hold 12 sizes of drop downs, unlimited fly-out elements combined with a jQuery script to enhance the whole system. It can be used as a jQuery sticky footer panel (with mega “drop-ups”) using the exact same markup as the “standard” mega menu. Customizing the menu require some basic knowledge of CSS and you can change the look of every part of the menu : the fonts, the colors, the sizes, etc. Fully Responsive Menu

Standard Top Menu

Sticky (or fixed) Top Menu

The package contains 2 folders : “Responsive” and “Non-Responsive” so the menu is ready to be included on any type of website. For each version of the menu, responsive and non-responsive, you have 6 HTML files with various examples of what you can do with the menu, from a simple navigation bar without drop downs to a combination of 2 mega menus on a same page. This menu has been tested on many devices and browsers to ensure a maximum compatibility : Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari have successfully passed the tests.The whole menu relies mainly on CSS, it means that if Javascript is disabled, most of the menu will work. Be sure to test the demo with different browsers or devices to make sure that the menu meets your requirements.I try to regularly update my products based on the feedback I receive, so if you find any kind of bug, I’ll do my best to update the menu as soon as possible. I’ve also created a website that compares and filters my different menus by options / features, Mega-Menu. If you’re still not sure about the menu that would fit into your project, you can contact me at any time from my profile page.

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