CSS: Styling Navigation

Join James Williamson, as he shows you how to create elegant menus, links, and buttons that help visitors navigate your site faster and more intuitively. The course covers creating structured navigation that is accessible and clean, styling links, and building horizontal and vertical menus with rollover effects. The last chapter reveals how to create stylish buttons with special effects and CSS sprites.

Topics include:

• Organizing menus with lists
• Creating block-level links
• Styling links, link states, and image links
• Defining link dimensions
• Controlling link spacing in a menu
• Creating rollovers
• Clearing floats
• Indicating current pages
• Controlling cursor states
• Building dropdown menus
• Creating CSS-only buttons

Table of content

• Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
• Structuring Navigation
  • Organizing menus with lists
  • Ensuring accessibility
  • Using the nav element
  • Creating block-level links
  • Lab: Structuring navigation
  • Solution: Structuring navigation
• Link Styling Basics
  • Exploring link style considerations
  • Using global link styles
  • Styling link states
  • Indicating external links
  • Styling image links
• Creating a Vertical Menu
  • Stripping default list styling
  • Defining link dimensions
  • Setting link styling
  • Aligning links vertically
  • Controlling link spacing
  • Styling menus with borders
  • Creating rollovers
  • Restricting link styling
  • Lab: Creating a vertical menu
  • Solution: Creating a vertical menu
• Creating Horizontal Menus
  • Stripping list styling
  • Displaying links horizontally
  • Clearing floats
  • Controlling link sizing and spacing
  • Styling links
  • Creating rollovers
  • Indicating current pages 4m 43s
  • Controlling cursor states
  • Lab: Creating horizontal menus
  • Solution: Creating horizontal menus
• Dropdown Menus
  • Overview of dropdown menus
  • Structuring submenus
  • Styling submenus
  • Creating submenu rollovers
  • Positioning submenus
  • Controlling submenu display
  • Creating persistent hover states
  • Animating menus with CSS transitions
  • Lab: Dropdown menus
  • Solution: Dropdown menus
• Enhancing Navigation with CSS
  • Creating CSS-only buttons
  • Creating special effects for buttons
  • Enhancing buttons with gradients
  • Overview of CSS sprites
  • Using CSS sprites for icons
  • Styling block-level links
  • Lab: Enhancing navigation with CSS
  • Solution: Enhancing navigation with CSS
• Conclusion
  • Additional resources

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