CSS3 Menu and Navigation Tutorials

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All of the CSS3 navigation tutorials we have for you today are all fully functional and could easily be used on a live site. But we do prefer to think of them all as being more experimental and proof-of-concept rather than being a robust end-product (a sprinkle of jQuery always makes everything better!). What they do offer is an opportunity to roll-up your sleeves and delve into some ground-breaking code.

Anyway, here they all are:

Creative CSS3 Animated Menus

Creative CSS3 Animated Menus

The idea of this tutorial is to have a simple composition of elements, an icon, a main title and a secondary title, that will be animated on hover using CSS transitions and animations.
Creative CSS3 Animated MenusDemo

CSS3 Animated Dropdown Menu

CSS3 animated dropdown menu

With this tutorial you will learn how to build this awesome CSS3 animated dropdown menu with some pretty cool features. A little bit of jQuery is used for IE.
CSS3 Animated Dropdown MenuDemo

Creating a Cool CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Creating a cool CSS3 Dropdown Menu

With this tutorial you will be shown how to create a multilevel CSS3 dropdown menu that will render perfectly with Firefox, Chrome and Safari. The menu does work in IE8+, but the rounded corners and shadows will not be render.
Creating a cool CSS3 Dropdown MenuDemo

CSS3 Minimalistic Navigation Menu

CSS3 Minimalistic Navigation Menu

In this tutorial you will learn how to build a simple CSS3 animated navigation menu, which degrades gracefully in older browsers and is future-proofed to work with the next generation of browsers.
CSS3 Minimalistic Navigation MenuDemo

CSS3 Animated Menu

Making a CSS3 Animated Menu

Using the power of CSS3 effects and transitions, with this tutorial, you will learn how to to build a navigation menu with some neat features such as the :target pseudo selector and :after elements.
CSS3 Animated MenuDemo

CSS3 LavaLamp Menu

How to Create a CSS3 Wheel Menu

Pure CSS3 LavaLamp MenuDemo

CSS3 Multi-Level Drop-Down Menu

Pure CSS3 Multi Level Drop Down Navigation Menu

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a pure CSS3 Multi Level Drop Down Navigation Menu. This navigation menu renders perfectly on Firefox, Chrome and also Safari.
CSS3 Multi-Level Drop-Down MenuDemo

Responsive Content Navigator with CSS3

In this tutorial you’ll be shown how to create a responsive content navigator with CSS only. The idea is to have several slides or content layers that will show or hide using the :target pseudo-class. With CSS transitions you can make the slides appear in a fancy way.
Responsive Content Navigator with CSS3Demo

Accordion with CSS3

With this tutorial, using hidden inputs and labels, you will learn how to create an accordion that will animate the content areas on opening and closing.
Accordion with CSS3Demo

Sweet Tabbed Navigation

Sweet Tabbed Navigation

Here you will learn how to create a sweet tabbed navigation using CSS3.
Sweet Tabbed NavigationDemo

Circle Navigation Effect with CSS3

Circle Navigation Effect with CSS3

In this tutorial you will be shown how to create a beautiful hover effect for an image navigation using only CSS3.
Circle Navigation Effect with CSS3Demo

Apple.com Menu Using Only CSS3

The Apple.com navigation menu created using only CSS3

In this tutorial you will learn how to create the Apple.com navigation menu using only CSS3.
Apple.com MenuDemo

Stylish Menu with CSS3 Transitions

Create a Stylish Menu with CSS3 Transitions

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a stylish menu that features some cool rollover effects using CSS3 transitions.
Stylish Menu with CSS3 TransitionsDemo

Slide Effect Menu

Slide effect menu with the Apple-Style

In this tutorial you will learn how to create Slide effect menu with the Apple-Style.
Slide Effect MenuDemo

CSS3 Dropdown Menu

CSS3 Dropdown Menu

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an outstanding Dropdown Menu using CSS3.
CSS3 Dropdown MenuDemo

Sliding Navigation without JavaScript

Sliding Navigation without JavaScript

With this tutorial you will learn how to create Sliding Navigation without JavaScript.
Sliding Navigation without JavaScriptDemo

Sweet CSS3 Vertical Navigation

Sweet CSS3 Vertical Navigation

In this tutorial you’ll learn to create a vertical CSS3 navigation, without the use of images. The menu will display a circle with an icon in the center and when the user hovers over the circle, it will expand and show a short description.
Sweet CSS3 Vertical NavigationDemo

CSS3 Vertical Multicolor 3D Menu

CSS3 vertical multicolor 3D menu

CSS3 Vertical Multicolor 3D MenuDemo

jQuery Style Menu with only CSS3

jQuery style menu with CSS3

jQuery Style Menu with only CSS3Demo

CSS3 Multicolor Menu

CSS3 multicolor menu

In this tutorial you’ll create a nice multicolor and cross-browser sliding (using transitions) CSS3 menu.
CSS3 Multicolor MenuDemo

CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu

CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a cross-browser, CSS-only drop-down mega menu, using CSS3 features.
CSS3 Mega Drop-Down MenuDemo

Slick Menu using CSS3

Slick Menu using CSS3

Slick Menu using CSS3Demo

Dark Two Level Menu

DARK MENU: PURE CSS3 TWO LEVEL MENU

Dark Two Level MenuDemo

Creating CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Creating CSS3 Dropdown Menu

In this detailed tutorial you will learn how to create the above CSS3 Dropdown Menu.
Creating CSS3 Dropdown MenuDemo

Sexy CSS3 Menu

Sexy CSS3 menu

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a good looking menu using some CSS3 magic.
Sexy CSS3 MenuDemo

CSS3 Dropdown Menu

CSS3 dropdown menu

CSS3 Dropdown MenuDemo

Cool CSS3 Navigation Menu

Cool CSS3 navigation menu

Cool CSS3 Navigation MenuDemo

Click Action Multi-level CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Click action Multi-level CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Click Action Multi-level CSS3 Dropdown MenuDemo

Accordian like CSS3 Onclick Vertical Navigation

Creating an Accordian like CSS3 Onclick Vertical Navigation

Accordian like CSS3 Onclick Vertical NavigationDemo

CSS3 Hover Tabs without JavaScript

CSS3 Hover Tabs without JavaScript

CSS3 Hover Tabs without JavaScriptDemo

Creating a CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Creating a CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Creating a CSS3 Dropdown MenuDemo

CSS3 Wheel Menu

How to Create a CSS3 Wheel Menu

CSS3 Wheel MenuDemo

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Jameel Khan is a web graphic designer and has been working in this field for 4 years. He also writes for other blogs, His biggest passion is blogging and vector illustrations.

Comments and Reactions

  • http://designmodo.com/ Adrian

    Here is our new CSS3 Dropdown Menu tutorial http://designmodo.com/css3-dropdown-menu/ 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Grane/100002393996156 David Grane

    Javascript is very important  to design creative dropdown menu.

  • G0ld3n Ssun
  • http://www.wpsquare.com/ Bharat Chowdary

    High Quality Stuff, thanks for adding demo files :)

  • http://www.arterruption.net/ Saya

    These make me busy for a while to read and do it

  • Richer44is

     Thank you very much for this collection!!! It is obvious that you didn’t miss professionalism. I am very impressed. Although this collection is awesome, in my domain as a web designer, I need more menus. Can someone suggest me other collections or website with more menus? Thanks very much.

  • http://www.webdesignfact.com/ Vivek Dhande

    Nice roundup. Thanks for sharing !!

  • http://jitendra-shah.co.uk Jitendra Shah

     Inspired me for the website I’m in the middle of making

  • Gothaminc09

    thanks you guys im new to the whole css3 world, just learned how to build sites using HTML and never new how better a site can look using css. just from the menu alone i’ve gain knowledge off css in more ways that just the menu, you guys are the best.

  • http://www.webtemplates-creare.com/ Paul Weston

    Thought this was a great article and
    one that will be very useful to me going forward with my design work.
    I am just starting to experiment with CSS3 and these kind of articles
    will be a great help in terms of seeing what can be created and give
    me guides to how I can create them. I love all the examples you have
    put together and they cover a great range of styles and effects which
    will help me with any kind of site I produce. This is a great article
    and one that I will be using as a constant reference in the future.
    Great work and I look forward to more like this from yourself.  

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