How to make a pure css based dropdown menu?
see this is pure css bases dropdown menu:-
HTML
<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="">About Us</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">The Team</a></li>
<li><a href="">History</a></li>
<li><a href="">Vision</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Products</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Cozy Couch</a></li>
<li><a href="">Great Table</a></li>
<li><a href="">Small Chair</a></li>
<li><a href="">Shiny Shelf</a></li>
<li><a href="">Invisible Nothing</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Contact</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Online</a></li>
<li><a href="">Right Here</a></li>
<li><a href="">Somewhere Else</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
CSS
ul
{
font-family: Arial, Verdana;
font-size: 14px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}
ul li
{
display: block;
position: relative;
float: left;
}
li ul
{
display: none;
}
ul li a
{
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #ffffff;
padding: 5px 15px 5px 15px;
background: #2C5463;
margin-left: 1px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
ul li a:hover
{
background: #617F8A;
}
li:hover ul
{
display: block;
position: absolute;
}
li:hover li
{
float: none;
font-size: 11px;
}
li:hover a
{
background: #617F8A;
}
li:hover li a:hover
{
background: #95A9B1;
}
see the demo:- http://jsfiddle.net/XPE3w/7/
Tested in IE7 - 9 and Firefox: http://jsfiddle.net/WCaKg/. Markup:
<ul>
<li><li></li>
<li><li></li>
<li><li>
<ul>
<li><li></li>
<li><li></li>
<li><li></li>
<li><li></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><li></li>
<li><li></li>
<li><li></li>
</ul>
CSS:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
font: 200%/1.5 Optima, 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif;
}
ul {
width: 9em;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 0.75em;
}
li {
float: left;
margin: 0 4px 4px 0;
background: #60c;
background: rgba(102, 0, 204, 0.66);
border: 4px solid #60c;
color: #fff;
}
li:hover {
position: relative;
}
ul ul {
z-index: 1;
position: absolute;
left: -999em;
width: auto;
background: #ccc;
background: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.33);
}
li:hover ul {
top: 2em;
left: 3px;
}
li li {
margin: 0 0 3px 0;
background: #909;
background: rgba(153, 0, 153, 0.66);
border: 3px solid #909;
}
html, body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
/* define a fixed width for the entire menu */
.navigation {
width: 150px;
}
/* reset our lists to remove bullet points and padding */
.mainmenu, .submenu {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
/* make ALL links (main and submenu) have padding and background color */
.mainmenu a {
display: block;
background-color: #CCC;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 10px;
color: #000;
}
/* add hover behaviour */
.mainmenu a:hover {
background-color: #C5C5C5;
}
/* when hovering over a .mainmenu item,
display the submenu inside it.
we're changing the submenu's max-height from 0 to 200px;
*/
.mainmenu li:hover .submenu {
display: block;
max-height: 200px;
}
/*
we now overwrite the background-color for .submenu links only.
CSS reads down the page, so code at the bottom will overwrite the code at the top.
*/
.submenu a {
background-color: #999;
}
/* hover behaviour for links inside .submenu */
.submenu a:hover {
background-color: #666;
}
/* this is the initial state of all submenus.
we set it to max-height: 0, and hide the overflowed content.
*/
.submenu {
overflow: hidden;
max-height: 0;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
}<html>
<body>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="css/text" href="nav.css">
</head>
</body>
<nav class="navigation">
<ul class="mainmenu">
<li><a href="">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="">About</a></li>
<li><a href="">Products</a>
<ul class="submenu">
<li><a href="">Tops</a></li>
<li><a href="">Bottoms</a></li>
<li><a href="">Footwear</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Contact us</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>