Navigation menus are the most important element one should pay attention when designing a website. Web-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS. Javascript makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible navigation to any website.
This article presents over 25 (horizontal and vertical) multilevel drop down menu built using Javascript and CSS which you can use in your future projects. Also you will find some useful tutorials at the end of this post where you can use to start building your own multilevel navigation menu.
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Horizontal and vertical drop down menus
1) Drop Down Tabs (5 styles)
Drop Down Tabs is a horizontal CSS tabs menu that supports a second level drop down menu for each of its tabs.
2) Professional Dropdown
3) Multi-level effect menu
Is a very configurable javascript/css hybrid dropdown menu that is capable of producing simple menus(both horizontal and vertical).
4) FastFind Menu
A jQuery nested menus, based on dynamic “AJAX” responses. The menu can also be dragged/dropped.
5) jQuery SuckerFish
Replicate Suckerfish Menus.
6) Fancy Sliding Tab Menu using script.aculo.us
7) List Based Menu with Images
This is a menu based on an unordered list (<UL><LI>). It makes the menu easy to use and friendly to search engines.
8 ) Slide down menu
A slide menu based on an unordered list (<UL><LI>).
9) Dropdownmenu made with scriptaculous/prototype
A multi level drop down menu.
10) Suckerfish-style menu plugin for jQuery
This demonstrates a two-tiered horizontal menu that displays the path to the current page when the menu is in its idle state.
11) Building a dynamic drop down menu
12) onMenuOpen onMenuCollapse Events
This is a one-time effect that shows off the menu opening up and firing an event, and then finishing with another event.
13) Mootools menu with accordion and effects
This simple menu has a neat effect by hovering over the links, and opens a submenu with an accordion.
14) Mootools Unlimited Drop Menu
15) Creating an Outlook Navigation Bar
Using the ListView and Accordion Controls
16) Simple CSS vertical menu Digg-like
This tutorial explains how to implement a simple vertical menu digg-like using CSS and javascript to show/hide sub-menu.
17) Drop down menu with Prototype
A unique drop down navigation that recursively applies a function to an li that toggles the visibility of a nested ul element.
18) Drop down menu with nested submenus
Using CSS and a little JavaScript
19) Drop down menu with jquery
A drop down animated menu example made with jquery
20) jdMenu Hierarchical Menu
The jdMenu plugin for jQuery provides a clean, simple and elegant solution for creating hierarchical drop down menus for websites to web applications.
21) jQuery plugin: Treeview
Lightweight and flexible transformation of an unordered list into an expandable and collapsable tree, great for unobtrusive navigation enhancements.
22) Drop Down menu
23) Accessible fold-out menu
24) Accordion Menu script
This example illustrates how you would add a collapsible sub level.
25) Complex Dynamic Lists
Using an unordered list, to display a hierarchical structure of a complexity that would be very hard to achieve with dynamic select boxes.
26) Chrome CSS Drop Down Menu
Chrome Menu is a CSS and JavaScript hybrid drop down menu. It’s easy to configure and search engine friendly.
Drop Down Menu Tutorials
CSS Pop-Out Menu Tutorial
CSS Express Drop-Down Menus
CSS Express menus should only be used in a horizontal orientation with a single drop-down level.
Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns
An accessible, light weight (just 12 lines of JavaScript), with great compatibility and can have multiple-levels.
Drop Down Menu Generator
Izzymenu
With an impressive Ajax interface, you can build your own CSS drop down DHTML sub-menu in minutes without writing a single line of code.
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I fixed the above mentioned problem by removing the keyboard handler. Now I am stuck with another problem. I use the JGlideMenu in a single page in a tab bar. The problem is that it shows up in all subpages, not only the one were I inserted it. I tried to hide it in the buttons changin page but it only works when clicking the buttom where is the control, even if I included the ajax files even in the other panel. Any best practice how to handle it? I am thinking of moving everything on the top page, even if that would encompass a duplication, but I am not sure it will work.
Hullo,
I am using jGlideMenu that seems to work seamlessly but for a very annoying and blocking issue. Namely it transforms all input fields in the page in a sort of listboxes for the previous entered values without the possibility of entering new texts. I tried to investigate jQuery.jGlideMenu.067.min.js, as by removing it input fields return to work normally, but I found nothing suggesting a modification of the input fields behaviors. May you help me?
Thanks, Fabrizio Bartolomucci
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I love your website tutorial its very educate. It gets even better as you give options
to download them. Regards Frankie
I am looking for a selectable dropdown with subcategories. I need to pull the subcategories id into the select box.
How do i do?
Nice!
Awesome collection - thanks!
This is a very nice post. Thanks for sharing!
PA
Thanks for this great list. I was looking all around the web for this.
The Drop Down Menu Generator is great.
Many thanks
This is really nice one
gr8 collection man thank you for sharing , this is very useful for me
i m web developer. i want use of java script in every type. so please give me some notes for java script
thanks.
great collections.. but i need ajax based menu..
Awesome......
I need this urgently. Please help.
i was searching for drop down menu code in html. I found this tutorial. Very good explanation. Please tell me the code also to create drop down menu.
This is really awesome. very usefull one.. great work
Nice post..Thanks a lot....
Hi - I am trying to find a nice drop down for my site - My site covers many cities; I would like to have a drop down menu for the cities on my site - so it would be easier to view the information - would this site help me? thanks
simply superb !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is really awesome. hmm trying to do something new in html navigation menu
thank you.. very usefull one.. great work
Very cool! Thank you very much!!!
if you want to create a dropdown menu in html with red theme,
see this, on here you can also download source code:
nice!!!
Thank you the menu The explanation is very clear with clear picture too, and very use full
Thanks for the menus. I love them, especially the second one.
Very nice.
Great collections and very useful.
Mr.C. You are right. After having incorporating HVMenu, now I am finding it as a trouble. When I work with CSS for printing purpose, the multilevel HVMenu gives me headache as it is not hiding. Only when I want to overcome the problem, I found your comment!. How exactly it is true. As you said, now I am retracing my steps by wasting a lot of time.
I also believe thus, perfectly composed post! .
Nice tutorial .I need to make a drop down menu for my Website and your tutorial is really nice . Thanks a lot for the support.
Hey thanks for all dis information...
it will be so usefull 2 me....
nice information. the explanation is very clear with clear picture too. great!
Cool site and lots of nice menus
thnks for share is very util for my new project.
Please help!!!
I used the menu (8) described but the hyper-link inside the list items does not go to anywhere. Why? The link has no respond when I clicked. How to enable the link?
8 ) Slide down menu- A slide menu based on an unordered list ().
I have written a jQuery plugin that supports infinite level of unordered lists. It is easy to implement, and has been tested in Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.
Very useful.Good work
very nice collection, but i was wondering if the horizontal menus can be converted to vertical menus? i need this for my oscommerce! any idea?
nice collections...
thank you for sharing...
here a link for another jQuery menu:
Thank for this article, is very util for my new project.
Hey thanks!!!
very good to c such awesome menus!!!
Awsome collections! I would like implement the above menu so the submenu will go up instead of down. Any idea how to do this.
Good collection..nice effort..Do you know of pure css menu which is expandable?
Thanks you for your share..
Hi i love the content! However, the code/info for #8 slide-down menu doesn't work. It pulls up a page with weird info. Thanks!
these are some awesome menu tutorials. Thanks for sharing.
Great!
Thanks
Thanks you for your share.
Thank you for a useful info, have a good resource in your blog.
really nice tutorial .but i can not find such type menu those i want
Hi. I need number 8 but
I want to one more
Can you help me.
Nice menus thanks(:
wow! everything in one place - great share! thanks my friend :)
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very helping, thank you...
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Thanks for the great information. I hope to be back soon. I have book marked it keep posting. Thanks again.
Thanks. This has saved me a lot of work.
you can see drop down menu width background image example.
You can see more samples on horizontal or vertical drop down menu for Creative DW Menus which is a Dreamweaver extension. Here are the samples extendstudio.com/creative-dw-menus-pack/samples.html
Very nice selection of drop down nav menus. One of them happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!
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just what i needed. thanks
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Sweet. Found what I was looking for :)
Very useful.Good work
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Nice Post with great resources... thanks
Great Post...
Good recommendation, Many dropdown menu tutorial on sites... but yours are the best
I'm still trying...
What a nice view, by adding this dropdown menu to my blog...
Great list! Navigation menu are greatly important for usability purposes and creating a user-friendly website.
nice i like it..
simply good!!!!!!!!! my requirement s over
useful information for nav menu.
Thanks for sharing this tut..
Thank you … this has me very helped.useful list
Appreciate, thank for the sharing
its great 1
I solved my problem. What I did was to create a blank rails application and copy all the javascript files to my website overwriting those I downloaded with Scriptaculous. Bingo no more errors. The fact that my ISP server is usingh 2.2.2 and not 2.3.4 does not seem to matter.
I have downloaded your scriptaculous multi level dropdown menu and converted it for my website donsgarden.co.uk. It is working, but firebug reports:- "uncaught exception: script.aculo.us requires the Prototype JavaScript framework >= 1.6.0.3
Line 0""
Safari reports an RJS error.
When I replace the prototype that I am using (1.6.0.1) to 1.6.0.3 the menu does not work. I developed the menu on a local copy using Mongrel, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.3.4, Scriptaculous 1.8.3, Prototype 1.6.0.1. The javascripts came with the scriptaculous download. Firebug also does report an uncaught exception.
My website host server is using Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.2.2.
Is there a reason that you know about for this error.
Great resource , thanks for menus !
Great list of menus. Thanks! :)
I'd like to add my 2 cents on multi-level drop-downs. I agree that in most cases they make a site too "busy." However, they have their place and appeal to a certain audience (especially in b2b apps). For example, if you've ever been on the Dell Premier site, you know you would KILL for a multi-level nav menu so you don't have to wait for their agonizingly slow pages to load.
I think the important thing is not to FORCE a user to use multi-level navigation. In other words, every item in the header menu should be clickable. The same wich each item in every level of the sub-menus. So if the user doesn't want to deal with the menus, they can bypass them and be taken to a wizard-like page instead. This allows you to appeal to the type-A's who will use the multi-menus as well as the slackers who want to be led by the hand.
Very useful info. Thanks for sharing!
great list.
thanks
I do not know what to say really! These menus are truly awesome, and I never seen most of them.. thanks!
i have question for you !!!
can i put professional drop down menu in my blog site???
how can i get it ???
could you tell me please how to put drop down menu in my blog ???
thanks before
where are the files to download in "Mootools menu with accordion and effects".
what about accessibility (508) and JAWS reading submenu items? I can't get the readers to "see" the submenus. I have run into this problem with no solution.
very cool)) thanks so much!!!
Wanted to add my dropdown navigation tutorial, too:
Greetings
great thanks!
it's very useful!
I worked for hours and hours and make nothing
thanks again!!!
cool !!
realy gud menu.
thanks buddy.
Ajay Kamat
I should say that single level drop downs are ok and in many places a good design choice, just avoid taking them multi-level.
Please don't use multi-level drop downs. They are html evil incarnate! If you find yourself in a situation where you have no choice, you took a wrong turn somewhere and need to go back and retrace your steps.
Drop downs are old school.
thanks, I was looking for drop down menu and I found this list :)
Great solutions...I find the 2nd level tabs don't work well, since IE6 doesn't like punching out of the parent's container.
sweet set! now to show off mine:
built using scriptaculous/prototype. Thought i'd spice things up a bit!
Sweet post! An option for every use, i was just looking at these at work today. These are a pain in the @ss to handcode! Thanks for the linkage
People are still using multilevel drop down menus?
Nice tutorial here, I use Dreamweaver for web design and in My opinion, sub categories navigation is not so good looking in vertical menu. But I like them as drop down in horizontal navigation. Off course who like opening a door and finding one more door in it? :-)