Animated Sidebar Menu using only HTML & CSS | Side Navigation Menu
Hello readers, Today in this blog you’ll learn how to create an Animated Sidebar Menu or Side Navigation Menu using only HTML & CSS. Earlier I have shared a blog on how to create an Animated Navigation Menu Bar and now it’s time to create a sidebar menu.
A website sidebar is a unique, creative, and useful component placed to the right or left of a webpage’s primary content area. They’re commonly used to display several types of additional information for users, such as navigational links to key pages. A sidebar can be used to encourage your visitors and content viewers to read the more detailed main article.
In this program [Side Navigation Menu], at first, on the webpage, there is only a menu button on the top left corner and when you click on that button, then the sidebar appears with sliding from the left side. In this sidebar, there are some navigation links with their icons, and when you hover on the particular link there is shown a box-shadow effect on the background which makes it more attractive. There are also some social media icons on the bottom of the sidebar.
If you’re feeling difficult to understand what I am saying. You can watch a full video tutorial on this program [Animated Sidebar Menu].
Video Tutorial of Animated Sidebar Menu
In the video, you have seen the side navigation menu with icons and I hope you’ve understood the basic codes behind creating this program. As you know, this is a pure CSS program that means I used only HTML & CSS to create this sidebar. So if you’re a beginner, then you can easily understand the codes of this program and able to create this type of sidebar.
To create a toggle button and show or hide the sidebar on button click, I have used HTML <input type=”checkbox”> and control this checkbox with label tag [menu icon]. If you like this program [Side Navigation Menu] and want to get source codes. You can easily get the source codes of this program.
Side Navigation Menu [Source Codes]
To create this program [Side Navigation Menu]. First, you need to create two Files one HTML File and another one is CSS File. After creating these files just paste these following codes in your file. You can also download the source code files through the given link. Click here to download source code files.
Originally published at https://www.codingnepalweb.com on September 5, 2020.
