For every CSS project we build, a responsive navigation bar is a must-have.
So, today we are going to build a responsive navigation bar using HTML CSS and vanilla javascript.
Note: It's a Mobile-First design
If you prefer video. I also created a video. You can watch it here
Let's get started 🎉🎉
Part 1: HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
<title>responsive navbar</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<nav class="nav">
<a href="/" class="logo">logo</a>
<div class="hamburger">
<span class="line"></span>
<span class="line"></span>
<span class="line"></span>
</div>
<div class="nav__link hide">
<a href="#">home</a>
<a href="#">about</a>
<a href="#">contact</a>
<a href="#">blog</a>
</div>
</nav>
</header>
</body>
<script src="./script.js"></script>
</html>
Above we got our navbar's markup with a hamburger.
I linked the CSS and javascript files too.
Let's see how we can style this markup with CSS
Part: 2 CSS
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
font-size: 1.2rem;
font-weight: bold;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
Here, we removed some of the default styles and added some styles to the a tag.
/* nav styles */
.nav {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
padding-top: 20px;
}
.logo {
font-size: 1.8rem;
color: rgb(5, 5, 116);
padding-left: 20px;
}
.hamburger {
padding-right: 20px;
cursor: pointer;
}
.hamburger .line {
display: block;
width: 40px;
height: 5px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
background-color: black;
}
.nav__link {
position: fixed;
width: 94%;
top: 5rem;
left: 18px;
background-color: lightblue;
}
.nav__link a {
display: block;
text-align: center;
padding: 10px 0;
}
.nav__link a:hover {
background-color: lightcoral;
}
.hide {
display: none;
}
This is the main design. Here we styled our navbar the hamburger and the logo.
The mobile design is done.
We are going to look at the desktop design now.
@media screen and (min-width: 600px) {
.nav__link {
display: block;
position: static;
width: auto;
margin-right: 20px;
background: none;
}
.nav__link a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 15px 20px;
}
.hamburger {
display: none;
}
}
In the desktop design, we removed the absolute position and made it a display block.
And to the nav__link's we added display inline-block so that the links stay's next to each other.
Lastly, added display none to the .hamburger
One last thing is left. Now we need to make our hamburger clickable.
Part 3 : Javascript
const hamburger = document.querySelector('.hamburger');
const navLink = document.querySelector('.nav__link');
hamburger.addEventListener('click', () => {
navLink.classList.toggle('hide');
});
Here we added a click event to the hamburger and added the classList.toggle to the navLink.
What the classList.toggle does is, it removes the class if the given class is available and add's if it's not available.
source code: https://github.com/Coderamrin/responsive-navbar-css-js
Live preview: https://coderamrin.github.io/responsive-navbar-css-js/
Conclusion
Thanks for reading.
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Have a good one :D
Top comments (17)
Thanks for this useful post! I was wondering how to setup a hamburger menu, I'll use this as a guideline. Btw I noticed a type-o:
And to the nav__link's we added display inline-block so that the links say next to each other.
Have a good one Amrin :)
thank's for pointing it out benny :D
Nice NavBar, I suggest you change your link in github is incorrect and your website.
Good job!
thanks Gustavo.
it works now
naw, still broken
It works for me. I don't know what's causing this
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Me too
Thanks for sharing.
Being evolving in the web industry since the very early 2000's, I'd say that dealing with navigation, is tricky. A navigation fulfils critical responsibilities:
SEO-able
Delegating the most critical part of the navigation with a
div > span
must be avoided. Except if you have a good reason and you provide the properaria
-attributes to take over with the right DOM's semantic.With better semantic, better structure, better opportunities for the SEO.
addressable
The state of the
nav__link.hide
should be bubbled up to the top level'sviewport
. Why? Because thedisplay: fixed
is applied to the viewport, and become a first (depth) level of reading. As a rule of thumb, always use the URL to represent the first level of reading, eg:Thus, the state of your main navigation is addressed within the URL. Sharing a link and refreshing the page work!
usable
I consider relying on the native navigation of the browser as one of the best practice in frontend development. Updating the the URL via a link and without using JS make things sure to work, and easy to maintain over the time.
interoperable
Nowadays, frontend developers face with complexity by coding programs executed in web browsers, webworkers and backends. Adding listeners should be done carefully, cause it's tightly coupled with the DOM's rendering (browser only).
Could be something like,
For the css,
Finally, the JS
Best
I think for better a11y would be better to use a button for the hamburger and a ul/li for the navigation items. 😉 But nice work 🎉
Thanks Rai.
I'm learning web accesibility :D
will do for the next projects.
A hreat writer here on DEV is inhuofficial .
His articles have been helping me to rethink a lot of a11y. Go check him out.
Thanks Rai
Aww I am blushing, thanks for the mention! ❤️
A hreat writer here on DEV is @inhuofficial .
His articles have been helping me to rethink a lot of a11y. Go check him out.
Nice
thanks Sushil
Thanks!
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