Step 9
CSS Navigation Bar
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W3Schools.com
see https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_navbar.asp
Navigation Bars
Having easy-to-use navigation is important for any web site.
With CSS you can transform boring HTML menus into good-looking navigation bars.
Navigation Bar = List of Links
A navigation bar uses standard HTML as a base.
In our examples we will build the navigation bar from a standard HTML list.
A navigation bar is basically a list of links, so using the ul> and elements makes perfect sense:
Example
Now let's remove the bullets and the margins and padding from the list:
Example
ul ｛
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Example explained:
list-style-type: none; - Removes the bullets. A navigation bar does not need list markers
Set margin: 0; and padding: 0; to remove browser default settings
The code in the example above is the standard code used in both vertical, and horizontal navigation bars.
Vertical Navigation Bar
To build a vertical navigation bar, you can style the elements inside the list, in addition to the code above:
Example
li a ｛
display: block;
width: 60px;
}
Example explained:
display: block; - Displaying the links as block elements makes the whole link area clickable (not just the text), and it allows us to specify the width (and padding, margin, height, etc. if you want)
width: 60px; - Block elements take up the full width available by default. We want to specify a 60 pixels width
You can also set the width of