CSS3 Onclick Vertical Metal menu
In our new tutorial we will create a cool CSS3 vertical menu with icons in metal style. The submenu will be opened by pressing the main menu items.
Here are final result (what we will creating):
Here are samples and downloadable package:
Live Demo
download in package
Ok, download the example files and lets start coding !
Step 1. HTML
As usual, we start with the HTML. Here are full html code of our menu. As you can see – menu contain only 1 sub level. Hope this is will enough for you. Whole menu built on UL-LI elements.
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" >
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>CSS3 Onclick Vertical Metal menu | Script Tutorials</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/layout.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/menu.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/t1.png" /> Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="sub" tabindex="1"><img src="images/t2.png" />HTML/CSS</a><img src="images/up.gif" alt="" />
<ul>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 5</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="sub" tabindex="1"><img src="images/t3.png" />jQuery/JS</a><img src="images/up.gif" alt="" />
<ul>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 6</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 7</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 8</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 9</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/empty.gif" />Link 10</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/t2.png" />PHP</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/t2.png" />MySQL</a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="images/t2.png" />XSLT</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<footer>
<h2>CSS3 Onclick Vertical Metal menu</h2>
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</footer>
</body>
</html>
Step 2. CSS
Here are the CSS styles of our menu. Maybe you’ve noticed – that in our html – I have two CSS files: layout.css and menu.css. The first file (layout.css) contain the styles of our test page. We will not publish these styles in this article, but if you wish – you can find these styles in the package.
css/menu.css
#nav {
border:3px solid #3e4547;
box-shadow:2px 2px 8px #000000;
border-radius:3px;
-moz-border-radius:3px;
-webkit-border-radius:3px;
}
#nav, #nav ul {
list-style:none;
padding:0;
width:200px;
}
#nav ul {
position:relative;
z-index:-1;
}
#nav li {
position:relative;
z-index:100;
}
#nav ul li {
margin-top:-23px;
-moz-transition: 0.4s linear 0.4s;
-ms-transition: 0.4s linear 0.4s;
-o-transition: 0.4s linear 0.4s;
-webkit-transition: 0.4s linear 0.4s;
transition: 0.4s linear 0.4s;
}
#nav li a {
background-color:#d4d5d8;
color:#000;
display:block;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:28px;
outline:0;
padding-left:15px;
text-decoration:none;
}
#nav li a.sub {
background:#d4d5d8 url("../images/down.gif") no-repeat;
}
#nav li a + img {
cursor:pointer;
display:none;
height:28px;
left:0;
position:absolute;
top:0;
width:200px;
}
#nav li a img {
border-width:0px;
height:24px;
line-height:28px;
margin-right:8px;
vertical-align:middle;
width:24px;
}
#nav li a:hover {
background-color:#bcbdc1;
}
#nav ul li a {
background-color:#eee;
border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
color:#000;
font-size:11px;
line-height:22px;
}
#nav ul li a:hover {
background-color:#ddd;
color:#444;
}
#nav ul li a img {
background: url("../images/bulb.png") no-repeat;
border-width:0px;
height:16px;
line-height:22px;
margin-right:5px;
vertical-align:middle;
width:16px;
}
#nav ul li:nth-child(odd) a img {
background:url("../images/bulb2.png") no-repeat;
}
#nav a.sub:focus {
background:#bcbdc1;
outline:0;
}
#nav a:focus ~ ul li {
margin-top:0;
-moz-transition: 0.4s linear;
-ms-transition: 0.4s linear;
-o-transition: 0.4s linears;
-webkit-transition: 0.4s linears;
transition: 0.4s linear;
}
#nav a:focus + img, #nav a:active + img {
display:block;
}
#nav a.sub:active {
background:#bcbdc1;
outline:0;
}
#nav a:active ~ ul li {
margin-top:0;
}
#nav ul:hover li {
margin-top:0;
}
Live Demo
download in package
Conclusion
Hope you enjoyed with our new vertical menu, don’t forget to tell thanks and leave a comment 
Good luck!
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the links of the submenu doesn’t work with ie 9 !
Are you tried to apply own custom links?
wau nice tutorial brother.
Can you tell me how I can make work the submenu on IE?
The links doesn’t work there. I applied own once.
Thank you
Hi, I can’t get this to work with IE9, is there a fix?
Thanks
Mark
Hello Mark,
This menu should work for IE9 (not so smooth, but anyway)
Almost an identical copy of a menu on CSS play – http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/cssplay-click-click-slide.html as are several of this sites menus
Hello Fran, yes, this is similar menu, as I mentioned in the end of our article.