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> <a href="http://script-tutorials.com/css3-onclick-vertical-metal-menu/" class="stuts">Back to original tutorial on <span>Script Tutorials</span></a> </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!
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.