Collapsible Navigation Bars with CSS and JavaScript
In this first part of a four-part series, I will show you how to build a dynamic navigation bar that can be turned on and off by means of a simple switcher. This small web application will combine some JavaScript code, a few CSS styles and basic markup.
Collapsible Navigation Bars with CSS and JavaScript - The complete source code for the dynamic navigation bar (Page 4 of 4 )
As I said in the section that you just read, in the lines below I listed the full source code that builds this dynamic navigation bar, including the corresponding markup, CSS styles and JavaScript functions:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Example on building a dynamic navigation bar</title>
// create navbar switcher and insert it into web page
createSwitcher();
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navbar">
<h2>This is the navigation bar of the web page</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 5</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 6</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="maincol">
<h2>This is the center column of the web page</h2>
<p>
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<p>
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<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas enim. Nulla facilisi. Vestibulum accumsan augue vulputate justo. Fusce faucibus. Sed blandit, neque sed lacinia nonummy, diam quam imperdiet justo, at dictum augue nunc a neque. Sed urna lacus, tincidunt at, aliquam id, fringilla id, felis. Vivamus feugiat molestie quam. Sed id dolor. Sed ac purus id sapien </p>
<p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<h2>This is the footer section of the web page</h2>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas enim. Nulla facilisi. Vestibulum accumsan augue vulputate justo. Fusce faucibus. Sed blandit, neque sed lacinia nonummy, diam quam imperdiet justo, at dictum augue nunc a neque. Sed urna lacus, tincidunt at, aliquam id, fringilla id, felis. Vivamus feugiat molestie quam. Sed id dolor. Sed ac purus id sapien </p>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas enim. Nulla facilisi. Vestibulum accumsan augue vulputate justo. Fusce faucibus. Sed blandit, neque sed lacinia nonummy, diam quam imperdiet justo, at dictum augue nunc a neque. Sed urna lacus, tincidunt at, aliquam id, fringilla id, felis. Vivamus feugiat molestie quam. Sed id dolor. Sed ac purus id sapien </p>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas enim. Nulla facilisi. Vestibulum accumsan augue vulputate justo. Fusce faucibus. Sed blandit, neque sed lacinia nonummy, diam quam imperdiet justo, at dictum augue nunc a neque. Sed urna lacus, tincidunt at, aliquam id, fringilla id, felis. Vivamus feugiat molestie quam. Sed id dolor. Sed ac purus id sapien </p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In addition to examining the above code sample, you may want to look at the following images, which show the different states of the navigation bar, that is when turned off and on using the switcher. Here they are:
Now that you have at your disposal the complete source code corresponding to this dynamic navigation bar, you can copy it and paste it into your favorite code editor. This way, you'll be able to introduce your own improvements.
Final thoughts
In this first chapter of the series, I showed you how to build a dynamic navigation bar that can be turned on and off alternately by means of a simple switcher. As you saw earlier, this small web application combines some JavaScript code, a few CSS styles and basic markup.
In the next part, things will get more interesting, because I'm going to teach you how to develop a similar navigation bar using the functionality of the Prototype JavaScript library.
Don't miss the upcoming part!
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