Office Style CSS3 Multilevel Menu
In our new tutorial I will give you another one brilliant crossbrowser css3 navigation menu. This is click action drop down menu with strict office styles (like MS Office styles). Also, you can also use different icons in this menu. This solution is ideal for business websites. If you are ready, lets start.
This is our final result:
Here are samples and downloadable package:
Live Demo
download in package
Ok, download the sources and lets start coding !
Step 1. HTML
Please point your attention to prepared HTML layout of our multilevel menu. This is usual UL-LI based multilevel navigation menu. Of course, the most interesting thing is CSS styles.
index.html
<div id="nav"> <ul> <li><span tabindex="1">File</span> <ul> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon1.gif" alt="" />New</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon2.gif" alt="" />Open</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon3.gif" alt="" />Close</a></li> <li><span tabindex="1"><img src="images/icon4.gif" alt="" />Save</span> <ul> <li><span tabindex="1"><img src="images/icon4.gif" alt="" />Option 1</span> <ul> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon1.gif" alt="" />Option A</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon2.gif" alt="" />Option B</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon3.gif" alt="" />Option C</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon2.gif" alt="" />Option 2</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon3.gif" alt="" />Option 3</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon5.gif" alt="" />Save As</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon1.gif" alt="" />Print</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon2.gif" alt="" />Exit</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><span tabindex="1">Edit</span> <ul> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon1.gif" alt="" />Cut</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon2.gif" alt="" />Copy</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon3.gif" alt="" />Paste</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><span tabindex="1">View</span> <ul> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon1.gif" alt="" />Normal</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon2.gif" alt="" />Web Layout</a></li> <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icon3.gif" alt="" />Print Layout</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Insert</a></li> <li><a href="#">Format</a></li> <li><a href="#">Tools</a></li> <li><a href="#">Table</a></li> <li><a href="#">Window</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.script-tutorials.com/">Help</a></li> <img class="close" src="images/spacer.gif" alt="" /> </ul> </div>
Step 2. CSS
Here are the CSS styles of our click action dropdown menu.
css/menu.css
#nav { position:relative; z-index:2; } #nav ul { background-color:#B8D1F8; border:1px solid #000C80; height:24px; list-style:none outside none; margin:0; padding:1px; } #nav ul ul { background-color:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #8A867A; display:none; height:auto; left:0; padding:0; position:absolute; top:25px; width:168px; background-image:-webkit-gradient(left center , #F8FAFF 0%, #B8D1F8 15%, #FFFFFF 15%, #FFFFFF 100%); background-image:-moz-linear-gradient(left center , #F8FAFF 0%, #B8D1F8 15%, #FFFFFF 15%, #FFFFFF 100%); } #nav ul ul ul { display:none; left:168px; position:absolute; top:-1px; width:168px; } #nav ul li { float:left; margin-right:1px; position:relative; } #nav ul li a { border:1px solid #B8D1F8; color:#000; cursor:default; display:block; font:11px Tahoma,Arial; padding:3px 3px 4px; text-decoration:none; } #nav ul li span { background:url("../images/u.gif") no-repeat scroll 90% center transparent; border:1px solid #B8D1F8; color:#000; cursor:default; display:block; font:11px Tahoma,Arial; padding:3px 14px 4px 3px; position:relative; } #nav ul ul li span { background:url("../images/s.gif") no-repeat scroll 97% center transparent; } #nav ul ul li { float:none; margin-right:0; padding:1px; text-indent:10px; } #nav ul ul li a,#nav ul ul li span { border:1px solid transparent; padding:3px 3px 5px 2px; } #nav ul ul li a img,#nav ul ul li span img { border-width:0; float:left; margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle; } #nav ul li:hover > a,#nav ul li:hover > span { background-color:#FFF2C8; border:1px solid #000C80; color:#000; } #nav img.close { display:none; height:100%; left:0; position:fixed; top:0; width:100%; z-index:-1; } #nav ul li span:focus + ul,#nav ul li ul:hover,#nav ul:hover + img.close { display:block; }
Less than 100 lines of code, it’s great, isn’t it?
Live Demo
download in package
Conclusion
Hope you enjoyed with our new CSS3 menu, don’t forget to tell thanks and leave a comment :) Good luck!
Doesn’t work with IE8. Have you tried with IE9?
Yes Dan,
I tried it with IE9. I haven’t had separated IE8. But when I switch to IE8 compatible mode, this menu works well anyway.
Hey.
Nice menu!
I’m trying to reproduce it according to my own theme and it’s going great except for one thing:
There’s an orange border along the selected menu item, I’m guessing this has to do with it being focused…
Can the colour of this border be changed or can it be removed?
/joppz
Hello Joppz,
It is hover styles, please pay attention to line 77 in menu.css file
Nice menu, great work!
In the screen shoot above, you have a blue background in the icons column. However, the demo and download code do not. Is it possible to update the download code?
Hi Mats,
It has the blue gradient background. What is your browser? Because it may be because of vendor-prefixes of #nav ul ul