Responsive Retina-Ready Menu

A responsive, touch-friendly and Retina-ready menu with three layouts for different browser sizes.

ResponsiveRetinaFriendlyMenu

Today we will create a colorful Retina-ready and responsive menu inspired by the colors of the Maliwan manufacturer of the Borderlands game. The menu automatically changes to one of three different layouts depending on the browser window size: a “desktop” inline version, a two columns tablet-optimized version and a mobile version with a menu link to display and hide the navigation for smaller screens. To make the menu fully retina-ready, we will use an icon font so that the icons of the menu won’t get pixelized on resize.

Please note: some effects only work in browsers that support the respective CSS properties.

Preparing the icon font

Creating a custom icon font might look a bit complicated, but with tools like IcoMoon it’s just a matter of creating the icons and importing them into the tool. Icon fonts behave like any font, so you can easily change the color, adapt the size and it won’t get pixelized. Perfect for retina devices without having to use multiple assets for different screen resolutions.

The first thing we need to do is to create the icons for the menu. I use Illustrator, but any vector graphics editor like, for example Inkscape, will do. We need to create each icon and export them as a SVG file. To make sure the icon will work properly in every browser, we have to convert all lines into full objects, and merge all the objects into one big shape for each icon. Once all have been exported into nice SVG files, we can import them all into the IcoMoon App tool:

IcoMoon import SVG

We can also enhance our font with icons from the big library that IcoMoon offers. Once we have all the icons we need, we click on the “Font” button at the bottom of the page to enter the detailed settings. On this page we can choose the encoding settings for the font, and also choose if we want to assign some letters for each icon, or prefer to use the Private Use Area of the font to make sure screen readers won’t be able to output them. I recommend using the default settings that work pretty well.

Font Settings

When we click on “Download” we get a ZIP file with 4 font formats (SVG, EOT, TTF and WOFF), the CSS styling and a demo page.

The first thing to do to be able to use the icons is to copy and paste the CSS IcoMoon provides to the top of our CSS file and make sure we also copy the font folder. There’s also a little “hack” to make the fonts look nicer on Chrome Windows you might want to check it out.

The HTML of the menu

Here is what the HTML for our navigation looks like:

<nav  id="menu" class="nav">	
	<ul>
		<li>
			<a  href="#" title="">
				<span  class="icon"> <i aria-hidden="true"  class="icon-home"></i></span><span>Home</span>
			</a>
		</li>
		<li>		
			<a href="#" title=""><span class="icon"> <i aria-hidden="true" class="icon-services"></i></span><span>Services</span></a>	
		</li>	
		<li>
			<a  href="#" title=""><span  class="icon"><i  aria-hidden="true" class="icon-portfolio"></i></span><span>Portfolio</span></a>
		</li>
		<li>
			<a  href="#" title=""><span  class="icon"><i  aria-hidden="true" class="icon-blog"></i></span><span>Blog</span></a>	
		</li>
		<li>
			<a  href="#" title=""><span  class="icon"><i  aria-hidden="true" class="icon-team"></i></span><span>The  team</span></a>	
		</li>
		<li>
			<a  href="#" title=""><span  class="icon"><i  aria-hidden="true" class="icon-contact"></i></span><span>Contact</span></a>
		</li>
	</ul>
</nav>

To use the icon font, we simply use the class “icon-iconname” inside an i element (a span will work as well). Also note that we added a no-js class to the body that will be changed to js with Modernizr. The idea is to be able to leave the menu open if the user has JavaScript disabled. We’ll also use Modernizr to detect touch support.

The CSS & JavaScript

Note that I won’t prefix the CSS3 properties here but you will find the prefixed version in the files.

The global CSS that gets applied to all screen sizes looks as follows:

/* Global CSS that are applied for all screen sizes */

.nav ul {
	max-width: 1240px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	font-size: 1.5em;
	font-weight: 300;
}

.nav li span {
	display: block;
}

.nav a {
	display: block;
	color: rgba(249, 249, 249, .9);
	text-decoration: none;
	transition: color .5s, background .5s, height .5s;
}

.nav i{
	/* Make the font smoother for Chrome */
	transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);
}

/* Remove the blue Webkit background when element is tapped */

a, button {
	-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
}

We want a first little transition on the whole navigation that lowers the opacity of all the items, except the one that is being hovered. This is the code for that:

/* Hover effect for the whole navigation to make the hovered item stand out */

.no-touch .nav ul:hover a {
	color: rgba(249, 249, 249, .5);
}

.no-touch .nav ul:hover a:hover {
	color: rgba(249, 249, 249, 0.99);
}

Then we want to add some nice background colors to all of the items. The code below uses a nth-child technique to select the list items. This way, you can add as many list items as you want, the color code will repeat itself.

.nav li:nth-child(6n+1) {
	background: rgb(208, 101, 3);
}

.nav li:nth-child(6n+2) {
	background: rgb(233, 147, 26);
}

.nav li:nth-child(6n+3) {
	background: rgb(22, 145, 190);
}

.nav li:nth-child(6n+4) {
	background: rgb(22, 107, 162);
}

.nav li:nth-child(6n+5) {
	background: rgb(27, 54, 71);
}

.nav li:nth-child(6n+6) {
	background: rgb(21, 40, 54);
}

Using a min-width media query, we can target screens that are bigger than 800px (50em, with a body font size of 15px) to transform our list into a nice horizontal navigation:

@media (min-width: 50em) {

	/* Transforms the list into a horizontal navigation */
	.nav li {
		float: left;
		width: 16.66666666666667%;
		text-align: center;
		transition: border .5s;
	}

	.nav a {
		display: block;
		width: auto;
	}

We continue with the nth-child selecting technique, to add a 4px border with different colors to each of our menu items. We apply it on hover, but also on focus and active to make it work on touch devices and on keyboard access.

	/* hover, focused and active effects that add a little colored border to the different items */

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+1) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+1) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+1) a:focus {
		border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(174, 78, 1);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+2) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+2) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+2) a:focus {
		border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(191, 117, 20);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+3) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+3) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+3) a:focus {
		border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(12, 110, 149);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+4) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+4) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+4) a:focus {
		border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(10, 75, 117);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+5) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+5) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+5) a:focus {
		border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(16, 34, 44);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+6) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+6) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+6) a:focus {
		border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(9, 18, 25);
	}

Then we place the icons and the text:

	/* Placing the icon */
	
	.icon {
		padding-top: 1.4em;
	}

	.icon + span {
		margin-top: 2.1em;
		transition: margin .5s;
	}

We animate the height of the elements when they are hovered:

	/* Animating the height of the element*/
	.nav a {
		height: 9em;
	}

	.no-touch .nav a:hover ,
	.no-touch .nav a:active ,
	.no-touch .nav a:focus {
		height: 10em;
	}	

	/* Making the text follow the height animation */
	.no-touch .nav a:hover .icon + span {
		margin-top: 3.2em;
		transition: margin .5s;
	}

Then we position the icons and prepare them for the CSS transition:

	/* Positioning the icons and preparing for the animation*/
	.nav i {
		position: relative;
		display: inline-block;
		margin: 0 auto;
		padding: 0.4em;
		border-radius: 50%;
		font-size: 1.8em;
		box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.8em transparent;
		background: rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
		transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);
		transition: box-shadow .6s ease-in-out;
	}	

To give the visuel effect we want, we transition a box shadow and change its size from 0.8em to 0, and its color from transparent to some color with a high opacity. This is also where we close our first media-query.

	
	/* Animate the box-shadow to create the effect */
	.no-touch .nav a:hover i,
	.no-touch .nav a:active i,
	.no-touch .nav a:focus i {		
		box-shadow: 0 0 0px 0px rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
		transition: box-shadow .4s ease-in-out;
	}
		
}

We set a second media query to make some little adjustments for screens between 800 and 980px:

@media (min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 61.250em) {

	/* Size and font adjustments to make it fit better */
	.nav ul {
		font-size: 1.2em;
	}

}

Now that we have finished the “desktop” version (with BIG quotation mark since more and more tablets now have 1024px and larger screens), we take care of the “global” CSS for screens that are smaller than 800px which equals to 49.938em here, using a max-width media query.

/* The "tablet" and "mobile" version */

@media (max-width: 49.938em) {		
	
	/* Instead of adding a border, we transition the background color */
	.no-touch .nav ul li:nth-child(6n+1) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav ul li:nth-child(6n+1) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav ul li:nth-child(6n+1) a:focus {
		background: rgb(227, 119, 20);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+2) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+2) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+2) a:focus {
		background: rgb(245, 160, 41);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+3) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+3) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+3) a:focus {
		background: rgb(44, 168, 219);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+4) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+4) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+4) a:focus {
		background: rgb(31, 120, 176);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+5) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+5) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+5) a:focus {
		background: rgb(39, 70, 90);
	}

	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+6) a:hover,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+6) a:active,
	.no-touch .nav li:nth-child(6n+6) a:focus {
		background: rgb(32, 54, 68);
	}

	.nav ul li {
		transition: background 0.5s;
	}	

}

For screen size between 520px (32.5em) and 799px (49.938em), we want to display our menu into a 2 columns and 3 rows layout. We add some padding to make the elements easy to “tap”, and display the icons on the left and the text on the right.

/* CSS for a 2x3 columns version */

@media (min-width: 32.5em) and (max-width: 49.938em) {
	
	/* Creating the 2 column layout using floating elements once again */
	.nav li {
		display: block;
		float: left;
		width: 50%;
	}
	
	/* Adding some padding to make the elements look nicer*/
	.nav a {
		padding: 0.8em;		
	}

	/* Displaying the icons on the left, and the text on the right side using inline-block */
	.nav li span, 
	.nav li span.icon {
		display: inline-block;
	}

	.nav li span.icon {
		width: 50%;
	}

	.nav li .icon + span {
		font-size: 1em;
	}

	.icon + span {
		position: relative;
		top: -0.2em;
	}

The animation for big screen is too complex to fit into smaller screens, so we adapt it to make it simpler and more discreet and simply animate the border. This is where we close our media query.

	
	/* Adapting the icons to animate the size and border of the rounded background in a more discreet way */
	.nav li i {
		display: inline-block;
		padding: 8% 9%;
		border: 4px solid transparent;
		border-radius: 50%;
		font-size: 1.5em;
		background: rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
		transition: border .5s;
	}

	/* Transition effect on the border color */
	.no-touch .nav li:hover i,
	.no-touch .nav li:active i,
	.no-touch .nav li:focus i {
		border: 4px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
	}

}

Again, for smaller screens we adapt the font-size and width.

	/* Adapting the font size and width for smaller screns*/
@media (min-width: 32.5em) and (max-width: 38.688em) {
	
	.nav li span.icon {
		width: 50%;
	}

	.nav li .icon + span {
		font-size: 0.9em;
	}
}

For very small screens, we hide the navigation and display a “menu” button the user can click if he wants to display the navigation. To do this, we rely on some lines of JavaScript:

	
//  The function to change the class
var changeClass = function (r,className1,className2) {
	var regex = new RegExp("(?:^|\s+)" + className1 + "(?:\s+|$)");
	if( regex.test(r.className) ) {
		r.className = r.className.replace(regex,' '+className2+' ');
    }
    else{
		r.className = r.className.replace(new RegExp("(?:^|\s+)" + className2 + "(?:\s+|$)"),' '+className1+' ');
    }
    return r.className;
};	

//  Creating our button for smaller screens
var menuElements = document.getElementById('menu');
menuElements.insertAdjacentHTML('afterBegin','<button type="button" id="menutoggle" class="navtoogle" aria-hidden="true"><i aria-hidden="true" class="icon-menu"> </i> Menu</button>');

//  Toggle the class on click to show / hide the menu
document.getElementById('menutoggle').onclick = function() {
	changeClass(this, 'navtoogle active', 'navtoogle');
}

// document click to hide the menu
// http://tympanus.net/codrops/2013/05/08/responsive-retina-ready-menu/comment-page-2/#comment-438918
document.onclick = function(e) {
	var mobileButton = document.getElementById('menutoggle'),
		buttonStyle =  mobileButton.currentStyle ? mobileButton.currentStyle.display : getComputedStyle(mobileButton, null).display;

	if(buttonStyle === 'block' && e.target !== mobileButton && new RegExp(' ' + 'active' + ' ').test(' ' + mobileButton.className + ' ')) {
		changeClass(mobileButton, 'navtoogle active', 'navtoogle');
	}
}

In order to have a cleaner HTML, I chose to create the “menu” button and insert it in the DOM using JavaScript. The function changeClass helps us to toggle the class between active and no class when the users clicks on the button.

Now that we have all we need for the small screen version, we can style it with CSS. The following code styles the menu button:

/* Styling the toggle menu link and hiding it */
.nav .navtoogle{
	display: none;	
	width: 100%;
	padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.8em;
	font-family: 'Lato',Calibri,Arial,sans-serif;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-align: left;
	color: rgb(7, 16, 15);
	font-size: 1.2em;
	background: none;	
	border: none;
	border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);
	cursor: pointer;
}

.navtoogle i{
	z-index:-1;
}

.icon-menu {
	position: relative;
	top: 3px;
	line-height: 0;
	font-size: 1.6em;
}

By default, the menu button is hidden. We want to display it for screens smaller than 519px (32.438em):

@media (max-width: 32.438em) {

	/* Unhiding the styled menu link */
	.nav .navtoogle{
		margin: 0;
		display: block;
	}

We animate the height of the navigation when the button is clicked. To close the navigation, we give it a 0em height, to open it, we give it a 30em max-height. If JavaScript is not enabled, we don’t have any button, so we use the no-js class to always display the navigation.

	/* Animating the height of the navigation when the button is clicked */
	
	/* If JavaScript is disabled, the menu stays open */
	.no-js .nav ul {
		max-height: 30em;
		overflow: hidden;
	}

When JavaScript is enabled we hide the menu by default, and display it when the users clicks on the button which then gets the active class:

	/* When JavaScript is enabled, we hide the menu */
	.js .nav ul {
		max-height: 0em;
		overflow: hidden;
	}
	
	/* Displaying the menu when the user has clicked on the button */
	.js .nav .active + ul {		
		max-height: 30em;
		overflow: hidden;
		transition: max-height .4s;
	}

We adapt the layout for smaller screens, presenting the navigation in a list of items with the icon on the left and the text on the right side:

	/* Adapting the layout of the menu for smaller screens: icon on the left and text on the right */
	
	.nav li span {
		display: inline-block;
		height: 100%;
	}

	.nav a {
		padding: 0.5em;		
	}
	
	.icon + span {
		margin-left: 1em;
		font-size: 0.8em;
	}

We also add a 8px border on the left of each item with a nice color

	
	/* Adding a left border of 8 px with a different color for each menu item*/
	.nav li:nth-child(6n+1) {
		border-left: 8px solid rgb(174, 78, 1);
	}

	.nav li:nth-child(6n+2) {
		border-left: 8px solid rgb(191, 117, 20);
	}

	.nav li:nth-child(6n+3) {
		border-left: 8px solid rgb(13, 111, 150);
	}

	.nav li:nth-child(6n+4) {
		border-left: 8px solid rgb(10, 75, 117);
	}

	.nav li:nth-child(6n+5) {
		border-left: 8px solid rgb(16, 34, 44);
	}

	.nav li:nth-child(6n+6) {
		border-left: 8px solid rgb(9, 18, 25);
	}

The navigation looks nice when testing its small version on desktop. But on mobile devices the items might be hard to tap. Using Modernizr we can detect the touch capability of the device. If the device has touch capabilities, a touch class is added to the body. We can use this class to enhance the experience on touch devices and make the navigation items a little bit bigger so that the user can tap them more easily. And here we close our last media query.

	/* make the nav bigger on touch screens */
	.touch .nav a {
		padding: 0.8em;
	}
}

And that’s it, we’ve build a nice, touch-friendly and retina-ready navigation that works fine on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Hope you liked it!

Image Credits: Featured image created with Minimal Apple Product Templates from WeGraphics.net

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Stéphanie Walter

I'm a Graphic & Web Designer, Pixel & CSS lover, WordPress & coffee addict. I also love UI-UX design for mobile and web apps. I like to experiment with new technologies, and share the knowledge.

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  1. Hi,

    I got your menu worked perfectly fine locally but when I uploaded the same on my apache server, the icon fonts are not visible. Do you I need to add any extra configurations when uploading it on apache server.

    Thanks,
    Raneesh

  2. Cool! Thank you very much. I have a question: Why div.main.clearfix’s height is alwalys 600px? Tks again, cheers!

  3. I deleted 2 choices, but now the menu is to the left. Is it possible to center the menu ?
    J’ai effacé 2 choix, mais maintenant le menu est à gauche, est-ce qu’il est possible de le centrer ?

    • I do some solution, but I’m not sure if it will work with you 😐

      in file default:
      change .main {

      max-width: 60em;//to smaller value

      ***********
      in file component:

      change width of nav ul to smaller value like:
      .nav ul {
      max-width: 800px;
      }
      and change .nav li { width:25%;} // this number come from divided 100 on number of choices
      which means if you have 4 li use this function : 100/#li;

      if you have choices more than 6 do the opposite 😀
      i hope this is helpful 🙂

  4. Hello,
    You are very good. I tried using your menu on my website: http://www.apolloborges.com/index.php/2011-07-25-15-56-49

    I struggled a bit and got it, he is in joomla. I had to put all the css menu in a single file.

    I got it to work, except I can not center the menu and I can not leave the menu close the two right and left side edges and not close to the top.
    The size of the space I have is 1000px. Put this value as the menu goes to direct. Actually I do not know if I’m putting this value to the right place.

    Could you help me? It’s almost perfect .. just need to adjust so that it is exactly flush with the two sides in the center of the page.
    Regard´s
    GUILHERME BORGES
    fdesk_@hotmail.com

  5. Nice work Stéphanie ! I love this effect !

    Thanks

    And your personnal website is very nice 😉

  6. Hi, First at all, thank u for the awesome menu source.
    But Im wondering how can I change the height of the menu?
    I want use your source on ma page but it seems like ur menu style has their own height and
    for me, Html starter, its quite hard to figure out the code which controls the height of menu part.

    Plz describe how I re-design this source.
    Thank u.
    (Im not gud at Eng. Hope u can understand ma words)

    • hi ,

      to change height go to file component

      and change these classes as you like :

      /* Animating the height of the element*/
      .nav a {
      height: 5em;//this value
      }

      .no-touch .nav a:hover ,
      .nav a:active ,
      .nav a:focus {
      height: 10em; //this value
      }

  7. Lovely design Stéphanie, I’m adapting it to use it with a re-design of my personal site. The vanilla JS method is pretty impressive, kudos to Justin!
    Here’s a jQuery adaptation which achieves the same goal (see http://jsfiddle.net/cssimsek/AgLyJ/2/) :
    (function($){
    $(‘#menu > ul’).hide();
    $(‘#menu’).prepend(“ Menu”);
    $(‘#menutoggle’).on(‘click’, function(){
    if($(‘#menu > ul’).css(‘display’) == ‘none’){
    $(‘#menu > ul’).show(‘slow’);
    }
    else {
    $(‘#menu > ul’).hide(‘slow’);
    }
    });
    })(jQuery);

    • I’m no sure why you would want to use jQuery while you can do those kind of transition in raw CSS3 🙂

  8. Actually, just realised that the jQuery version I offered up is profoundly problematic… It works nicely when $(window).width() 520 … I’ll have to try to fix this..

  9. Hello and thanks for a great tutorial!

    Iv’e been working all day to try solve a problem, i want to center this menu on top of my page.

    Like on this site: http://www.billykick.com/ (you have to scroll down a bit then the navigationbar will appear)

    Anyone know how this could be achived? iv’e put the navigation bar in this tutorial in my header.
    Is it the header thats need new code or is it something in the tutorial?
    Maybe a whole new solution?

    A huge thank you to anyone who can help 🙂

    Current header code in css and html:

    http://codepad.org/UaNxHtgE

    Thanks again!

  10. Thanks for the tutorial! It´s really amazing, but someone asked me if there is any option to use this on a wordpress based webpage… that would be awesome!

    Any ideas?

    Thank you!

  11. nice tutorial- I’m morphing the design with another one that’s got a bit less jquery involved, but either way I’m not able to get the icomoon graphic to show in ie8. Evernything else is good. -Code in progress so not able to show you right now. I see you have the icons show in yours (ie8), any trick to get that to show? I’ve added the checkbox for ie7 and before (and also tried without) but still not working.

  12. I absolutely love this nav system. I’m still working through the tutorial but I was wondering – how would I adjust the coding to have the menu running along the left side of my page, vertically (where the individual li would expand out to the right)?? Thanks so much!!

  13. Found a small bug that’s been driving me nutz!

    .navtoogle i {
    z-index:-1;
    }

    With this property, and you are viewing the page on a mobile device or a narrowed browser, I found I’m unable to set a bg color to the parent div as the menu icon (3 lines) goes behind the div. If I set this to 1, the menu icon is on top of the div, however, it no longer functions. I wasn’t too interested in using this and it requiring a white bg but it is what it is. Unless someone has a recommendation on how to fix this.

    • I’m having the same problem. If I assign a bg color to #menu then the icon is no longer visible. I can fix this by raising the z-index, but then the icon won’t toggle on Chrome or Safari. It works fine on FF. SO frustrating because this menu is terrific!

    • So I slept on it and came up with a couple of options.

      First, you can assign a bg color to and work around that.

      Second, you can abandon the use of the icon in the tag and use a bg color on #menu {}, .nav .navtoogle {}, or both. Use a menu picture as a bg image within .nav .navtoogle {} as your menu toggle icon.

      I really appreciate the simplicity and functionality of this code. Thanks so much to the author!

  14. I greatly appreciate all the work you have done on this project and it’s simplicity. I do have 2 questions:

    1. Anyone else notice how there is a faint gray background behind the “header” text? Or is there just a break line? My retina display on my macbook pro is showing me that there is a slight difference in color above the menu bar.

    2. Any easy fallback for IE support? I know CSS3 is not supported, but is there a nice way for it to break down and not totally die? I know a previous poster created a jQuery way to use this menu, would that be better supported in IE?

    Thanks!

  15. I, your menu is just amazing with a very good tutorial but i have a little problem, on my website http://www.extrasya-world.eu/index.php just after the menu I have a big space which I can’t change ! I tried to change the .css and the .html but i don’t find answer, if you can, please help me 🙂 budet_b[at]epita.fr

  16. What happens if my website only needs 5 or 4 menu items?
    I noticed that if I leave just 5, they don’t feel the screen.

    Any sigestions on this?

    • Hi!

      I needed 5 menu items and for a quick fix I went for giving the li-items some more width:

      .nav li {
      float: left;
      // width: 16.66666666666667%;
      width: 20%;
      text-align: center;
      -webkit-transition: border .5s;
      -moz-transition: border .5s;
      -o-transition: border .5s;
      -ms-transition: border .5s;
      transition: border .5s;
      }

      from 16% to 20%. If that’s not a solution for you, maybe you can try to center the whole on your page?

    • karlien – THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES!!!
      I have been seeking the answer for this ALL day! You are awesome =)

  17. i just want to add sub menu items to this menu …
    the items to be displayed in the pop down with the effect provided to the menu titles (home,blog,contact etc…)
    please help me i am new to web development .

    this menu is awesome…

    thank you …

  18. Hi absolutely love your menu bar.
    I’m relatively new to web programming which leads me to my question.
    Is it possible to use your own color fonts in the menu and if so where would you do this?

    I understand how to use the icomoon, however it is very limited when it comes to wanting multiple colors.

  19. Hi, great tutorial and I love this menu. I have a problem though and I hope someone can help me.
    when I’m testing it with mobile screen, the menu appears “behind” the rest of the page’s elements.
    this is what the menu looks like
    <a href=”www.shoofpremier.com/normal.png” title=”normal” rel=”nofollow”>

    and here is what happens when i test with the small screen size
    <a href=”www.shoofpremier.com/problem.PNG” title=”problem” rel=”nofollow”>

    can any body help?

  20. I love this menu but when I implement it I have a large blank space between the responsive menu icon and the page text. I tried setting a negative margin for the text but that results in the menu displaying correctly for the first few menu items and then the rest is transparent to the text on the page. I tried changing the z-index but that did not solve the problem. Anyone have a solution for this?

  21. Excellent tutorial! thanks a lot.
    I have a question. How can i change the height of menu?
    thank you.

  22. The javascript at the bottom is overly complicated, and incorrectly hides submenu. All you need is a button, and a click event:

    Menu

    And then a simple “toggle” javascript, or jQuery toggle, for the “menu” ID. You can Google an example toggle javascript or jQuery example.