Creating a cool CSS3 Dropdown Menu

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Creating a cool CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Step 1. HTML

As usual, we start with the HTML.

Here are html with our menu. As you can see – this is multi-level menu. I hope that you can easy to understand it.

index.html

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
<div class="example">
     <ul id="nav">
<li class="current"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Tutorials</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">HTML / CSS</a></li>
<li><a href="#">JS / jQuery</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">jQuery</a></li>
<li><a href="#">JS</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
<li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
<li><a href="#">XSLT</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Resources</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">By category</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
<li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
<li><a href="#">XSLT</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">By tag name</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">captcha</a></li>
<li><a href="#">gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="#">animation</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quang.name.vn/">Go Back</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Step 2. CSS

Here are used CSS styles. First two selectors (you can skip it) belong to our demo page. All rest – belong to menu.

css/style.css

/* demo page styles */
body {
    background:#eee;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}
.example {
    background:#fff url(../images/clouds-in-blue-sky.jpg);
    width:770px;
    height:570px;
    border:1px #000 solid;
    margin:20px auto;
    padding:15px;
    border-radius:3px;
    -moz-border-radius:3px;
    -webkit-border-radius:3px;
}
/* main menu styles */
#nav {
    display:inline-block;
    width:100%;
    margin:0px auto;
    padding:0;
    background:#335599 url(../images/bg.png) repeat-x 0 -110px;
    border-radius:10px; /*some css3*/
    -moz-border-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;
    box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .5);
    -moz-box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .5);
    -webkit-box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .5);
}
#nav li {
    margin:10px;
    float:left;
    position:relative;
    list-style:none;
}
#nav a {
    font-weight:bold;
    color:#e7e5e5;
    text-decoration:none;
    display:block;
    padding:8px 20px;
    border-radius:10px; /*some css3*/
    -moz-border-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;
    text-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .7);
}
/* selected menu element */
#nav .current a, #nav li:hover > a {
    background:#7788aa url(../images/bg.png) repeat-x 0 -20px;
    color:#000;
    border-top:1px solid #f8f8f8;
    box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .7); /*some css3*/
    -moz-box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .7);
    -webkit-box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .7);
    text-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(255,255,255, 0.7);
}
/* sublevels */
#nav ul li:hover a, #nav li:hover li a {
    background:none;
    border:none;
    color:#000;
}
#nav ul li a:hover {
    background:#335599 url(../images/bg.png) repeat-x 0 -100px;
    color:#fff;
    border-radius:10px; /*some css3*/
    -moz-border-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;
    text-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, 0.7);
}
#nav ul li:first-child > a {
    -moz-border-radius-topleft:10px; /*some css3*/
    -moz-border-radius-topright:10px;
    -webkit-border-top-left-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-top-right-radius:10px;
}
#nav ul li:last-child > a {
    -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:10px; /*some css3*/
    -moz-border-radius-bottomright:10px;
    -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:10px;
}
/* drop down */
#nav li:hover > ul {
    opacity:1;
    visibility:visible;
}
#nav ul {
    opacity:0;
    visibility:hidden;
    padding:0;
    width:175px;
    position:absolute;
    background:#aabbcc url(../images/bg.png) repeat-x 0 0;
    border:1px solid #7788aa;
    border-radius:10px; /*some css3*/
    -moz-border-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;
    box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .5);
    -moz-box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .5);
    -webkit-box-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0, .5);
    -moz-transition:opacity .25s linear, visibility .1s linear .1s;
    -webkit-transition:opacity .25s linear, visibility .1s linear .1s;
    -o-transition:opacity .25s linear, visibility .1s linear .1s;
    transition:opacity .25s linear, visibility .1s linear .1s;
}
#nav ul li {
    float:none;
    margin:0;
}
#nav ul a {
    font-weight:normal;
    text-shadow:0 2px 2px rgba(255,255,255, 0.7);
}
#nav ul ul {
    left:160px;
    top:0px;
}

Quite all css code is belong to css menu. I don`t including this into article. It always available in download package

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