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Navigation Bar with CSS Vertical

By Unknown - Sunday, February 10, 2013





Navigation Bar = List of Links

A navigation bar needs standard HTML as a base.
In our examples we will build the navigation bar from a standard HTML list.
A navigation bar is basically a list of links, so using the <ul> and <li> elements makes perfect sense:

Example

<ul>
<li><a href="default.asp">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="news.asp">News</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.asp">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="about.asp">About</a></li>
</ul>

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Now let's remove the bullets and the margins and padding from the list:

Example

ul
{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

Try it yourself »
Example explained:
  • list-style-type:none - Removes the bullets. A navigation bar does not need list markers
  • Setting margins and padding to 0 to remove browser default settings
The code in the example above is the standard code used in both vertical, and horizontal navigation bars.

Vertical Navigation Bar

To build a vertical navigation bar we only need to style the <a> elements, in addition to the code above:

Example

a
{
display:block;
width:60px;
}

Try it yourself »
Example explained:
  • display:block - Displaying the links as block elements makes the whole link area clickable (not just the text), and it allows us to specify the width
  • width:60px - Block elements take up the full width available by default. We want to specify a 60 px width

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