25 creative CSS menus (creative examples)

A good user flow contributes enormously to a successful website. The content, positioning and appearance of your menu/navigation should therefore be well thought out. Here you can find some inspiration and examples for your own CSS menu!
Partially in this list are “normal” CSS menus, for a very simple reason: the usability comes first and only then the appearance. Normal menu bars can also look very chic. With the right effects and animations they become a real eye-catcher.
The same of course applies to mobile displays, often called “hamburgers”. I have also compiled a large collection of CSS hamburger menus for you in the linked post.
The pens shown are licensed with MIT. You can find more info about your own use on the Codepen Blog.
#1 Cool Nav Menu Hover
Author: Hans Engebretsen;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#2 Sticky Navigation Menu with Smooth Scrolling
Author: Praveen Bisht;
Coded in: HTML (Pug), CSS (SCSS), JS (jQuery);
#3 Pure CSS DropDown Menu
Author: Andor Nagy;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#4 Accessibility menu
Author: Lee Kiernan;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS (jQuery);
#5 CSS Menu hover effects
Author: Sarath AR;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#6 Icon Menu
Author: Graham Pyne;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#7 Snap.svg Menu animation
Author: romagny jerome;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS (Snap.svg);
#8 Standard Nav Bar
Author: Justin;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS (jQuery);
#9 Half-page Menu
Author: mp_graphic;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS (jQuery);
#10 CSS menu transitions
Author: Khaos;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#11 Vertical Navigation Menu
Author: Madalin Tudose;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS (jQuery);
#12 Portfolio Icon Nav
Author: Ridho Ahmad Batubara;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS (jQuery);
#13 Responsive navigation multilevel
Author: Stéphanie Walter;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (Less), JS (jQuery);
#14 Nav Menu Design
Author: Abdullah Al Amin;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS;
#15 Full page drop down – GSAP
Author: Rath;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS (jQuery, TweenMax.js);
#16 Lavalamp CSS Menu
Author: Patak;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#17 Circle Nav
Author: Corey Roth;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS (jQuery);
#18 Magic Line Menu
Author: Collin Smith;
Coded in: HTML (Pug), CSS (Stylus), JS (jQuery);
#19 Sliding Menu
Author: Florian-Gropp;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS;
#20 Another Circle Menu
Author: Pierre;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS;
#21 Pure CSS One page vertical navigation
Author: Hrtzt;
Coded in: HTML (Pug), CSS (Sass), JS;
#22 CSS Menu Concept (Clip-path)
Author: Charlie Marcotte;
Coded in: HTML (Pug), CSS (Sass), JS;
#23 💪 CSS menu feat. emoji
Author: Piotr Galor;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS;
#24 Pure CSS Menu Navigation
Author: Izzy Skye;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS;
#25 Pure CSS Menu
Author: Karim Khan;
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS;
Conclusion
Did you code your own fancy menu, which should appear in this list? Please let me know! 🙂
Note: All buttons are all published on codepen.io and not by me.
Not enough? Then this could be something for you:
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Thanks, they are so fascinating especially circle shape menus.
awesome
Have the same problem but i m a complete noob. I use the max mega menu and it has a function z=999 and in the comment is says that it has to be 999 so it is always on top. Could this help?
Awesome
These are freaking awesome! Keep it up. Love seeing different things like this that I can get ideas from for webpages.
Thank you!
Thank you!