Now let's remove the bullets and the margins and padding from the list:
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 Navagation Bar
To build a vertical navigation bar, you can style the <a> elements inside the list, in addition to the code above:
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 <ul>, and remove the width of <a>, as they will take up the full width available when displayed as block elements. This will produce the same result as our previous example:
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 60px;
}
li a {
display: block;
}
Vertical Navigation Bar Examples
Create a basic vertical navigation bar with a gray background color and change the background color of the links when the user moves the mouse over them:
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 200px;
background-color: #f1f1f1;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: #000;
padding: 8px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* Change the link color on hover */
li a:hover {
background-color: #555;
color: white;
}
