Vertical Icon Menu

A very simple lateral icon menu with a hover transition. The fixed menu has an example for how to use media queries to adjust the size of the icons for smaller screens. There is also an example class for an active item.

The icon font was created with IcoMoon and the icons are by Matthew Skiles.

The HTML

<ul class="cbp-vimenu">
	<li><a href="#" class="icon-logo">Logo</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="icon-archive">Archive</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="icon-search">Search</a></li>
	<li class="cbp-vicurrent"><a href="#" class="icon-pencil">Pencil</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="icon-location">Location</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="icon-images">Images</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" class="icon-download">Download</a></li>
</ul>

The CSS

@font-face {
	font-family: 'ecoico';
	src:url('../fonts/ecoico.eot');
	src:url('../fonts/ecoico.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
		url('../fonts/ecoico.woff') format('woff'),
		url('../fonts/ecoico.ttf') format('truetype'),
		url('../fonts/ecoico.svg#ecoico') format('svg');
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
}

.cbp-vimenu {
	position: fixed;
	overflow: hidden;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	height: 100%;
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background: #f7f7f7;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a {
	display: block;
	text-indent: -500em;
	height: 5em;
	width: 5em;
	line-height: 5em;
	text-align: center;
	color: #999;
	position: relative;
	border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
	-webkit-transition: background 0.1s ease-in-out;
	-moz-transition: background 0.1s ease-in-out;
	transition: background 0.1s ease-in-out;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a:hover,
.cbp-vimenu li:first-child a{
	background: #47a3da;
	color: #fff;
}

/* class for current item */
.cbp-vimenu li.cbp-vicurrent a {
	background: #fff;
	color: #47a3da;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a:before {
	font-family: 'ecoico';
	speak: none;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-indent: 0em;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	font-size: 1.4em;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a.icon-logo:before {
	content: "C";
	font-weight: 700;
	font-size: 300%;
	font-family: 'Lato', Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;
}

.icon-search:before {
	content: "e004";
}

.icon-archive:before {
	content: "e005";
}

.icon-download:before {
	content: "e006";
}

.icon-location:before {
	content: "e007";
}

.icon-images:before {
	content: "e009";
}

.icon-pencil:before {
	content: "e008";
}

/* Example for media query (depends on total height of menu) */
@media screen and (max-height: 34.9375em) { 

	.cbp-vimenu {
		font-size: 70%;
	}

}