A tutorial about how to create a simple, but very stylish vertical menu using some CSS3, jQuery, a custom text font and the most impressive icon font. Combine all of these with a nice color scheme and you get a beautiful UI element, ready to be used in your projects!
Side Toggle Menu lets you add a side bar menu to your page that slides in from the left or right edge of the browser window. It supports two types of unveiling- either by nudging the rest of the page and making room for itself, or overlaying the page.
CSS3 transitions are used to power the animation, ensuring a smooth visual experience even on low powered mobile devices. And speaking of mobile devices, the menus are adaptive in that it automatically switches to a basic drop down menu using a toggle button at the top of the page when the user's device width is 480px or less.
Smint is a simple jQuery plugin that helps with the navigation on one page style websites.
It has 2 main elements, a sticky navigation bar that stays at the top of the page while you scroll down and menu buttons that automatically scroll the page to the section you clicked on.
aMenu is a animated jQuery Menu plugin with show, fade, slide, wind effects. Also you can choose effect speed.
SmartMenus is jQuery website menu plugin. Responsive and accessible list-based website menus that work on all devices.
Features
This is a simple tooltip menu that will show a tooltip submenu when hovering over an item. The submenu will either appear above or below the main menu, depending on where more space is available.
Using Modernizr’s touch detection, the menu will either react on hover or on click. Example media queries show how to adjust the style for smaller screens.
A simple, horizontal slide out menu with a grid-like thumbnail layout for the submenu. The menu slides out from the top when a main menu item is clicked and the sub-items fade in. When clicking on another item, the height of the submenu will adjust and the content will fade in and out while switching.
Some media query examples show how to make the menu responsive and change the view to a touch-friendly vertically stacked navigation.
mmenu is a jQuery plugin for creating slick, app look-alike sliding menus for you mobile website or responsive website.
A responsive, touch-friendly and Retina-ready menu with three layouts for different browser sizes.
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
menuFlip is a jQuery plugin for adding a ‘ flipping ’ effect to text based navigational menu items when hovered over without needing to use background images, which can be a pain.
A tutorial on how to create the effect of YouTube's little left side menu.
When clicking on the menu label and icon, the main menu appears beneath and the menu icon slides to the right side while the label slides up. To close the menu, the menu icon needs to be clicked again.
A responsive multi-level menu that shows its submenus in their own context, allowing for a space-saving presentation and usage.
Each sub-level in this menu will be shown in its own context, making the “parent” level disappear. This is done with subtle animations that are defined in separate animation classes. The menu is fluid so that it can be used easily in a responsive layout.
Device Agnostic Approach to Complex Site Navigation with Support for Touch and Keyboard Accessibility
A mobile-first example of using media queries and jQuery to make a decent site menu with drop downs. Special attention is paid to touch screens using click events for tap targets.
Features
Superclick is a jQuery drop-down menu enhancement plugin sharing many of Superfish's features but focusses solely on click events to open and close submenus. This means that links with associated submenus will never be followed, they will simply toggle the visibility of the submenu.
Flaunt.js is a jQuery script that allows you to create a responsive, nested navigation out the box.
Flaunt was built to overcome responsive design challenges which faced a huge percentage of websites. This challenge was to show nested navigation items on click-demand, without the event taking you through to the page you've pressed.
