Guest Post – Sexy Drop Down Menu

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Guest Post – Sexy Drop Down Menu

PrintJune 2nd, 2009

I recently wrote a tutorial on creating a jQuery driven drop down menu on www.Noupe.com.

Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential. In this tutorial I would like to go over how to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.

Drop Down Menu

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24 Responses to “Guest Post – Sexy Drop Down Menu”

  1. Ashton Sanders

    Good work man! Great post on a great site. Keep it up.

  2. GreyK50

    very sexy~

  3. Anthony Proulx

    Beautiful! I really like this style of drop down menu.

  4. Knoxville Website Design

    That’s a really nice navigation, great look and feel.

  5. Yiğit Özdamar

    woow. more than sexy man!

  6. Sean

    Those are gorgeous menus! The only downside is that degrading loses the submenu links – if you implemented a CSS feature that would still show those links, that would be awesome.

  7. kruz

    That very well.:)

  8. FLiT

    great. well done. love it. 5*****. keep sharing.

  9. Egypt Web Solutions

    wow really nice menu 5*****

    but i think it work only for 2 levels menu what about 3 levels or more
    Could you show a version with 3 levels of menu?
    thanks

  10. gusto

    Hello. I have one problem. How can i change the height of the submenu?

  11. Nigel

    where or how can i get the background images used in the menu. the white top shadow that appears when hovering etc.

  12. Gary

    Cool sexy menu + a great website!

  13. Tapan Roy

    A great site.

  14. ubik74

    Hi, very nice menu
    Any way to get it without transition XHTML error?

    Line 10, Column 39: document type does not allow element “span” here
    $(”ul.subnav”).parent().append(”"); //Only shows drop down trigger

    The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements — such as a “style” element in the “body” section instead of inside “head” — or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).

  15. Soh

    Yea I wrote on page js so its easy to scan through, if you call the js file externally, you won’t get that error~

  16. ubik74

    Excellent i will try !
    Really thanks for your work, all is fine and usefull!

  17. Miguel Madeira

    Hi,

    Congratulations for your funtastic site, and to share with us your knowledge.

    Do you have any sample with more than 2 levels menu. It will be great if you do not have this kind of limitation.

  18. Jeff

    First thank for this very lovely menu.

    I try to customise it for one of my projects by I have few problems.
    I put an image-background on each li of the ul.tonav with an id to get un kind of rollover effect. The problem is that my background is repeated in the dropdown menu even if I mention no-repeat in the css.
    Also in safari the background image doesn’t appear.

    I hope than you can help me and that you have the time to fix that problem.

    Thank you.

  19. jQuery

    woow,it’s cool

  20. jenny

    I love all ur tutorials. U are so smart, luv ur talents, luv u .. muahzz…

  21. Kenan

    Hi,
    Great idea :)

    I’m trying to to validate and there is error with tag in headers.
    I also tryied to revalidate your example page, and still there is error:
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sohtanaka.com%2Fweb-design%2Fexamples%2Fdrop-down-menu%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654

    Also tryied to create JS variable like:
    sSpan = ” + ”
    $(document).ready(function(){
    $(”ul.subnav”).parent().append(sSpan);

    But error again :(

    Do You have some other solution?
    Thanks in advance

  22. Kenan

    Hm… No html code in comments :)

    But something like:
    sSpan = (left) + sp + an + (right) + ‘/sp’ + ‘an’

  23. Sukh

    Hey, I love the menu, but had issues trying to put the css code in to a css file to get to work before I made design changes.

    Thanks for the great examples thru out the site.

  24. Kenan

    Me again… i found solution for using brackets inside header, based on Googles Analytics:

    unescape(”%3Cspan%3E”)

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