css overlay menu source code

Today I will give you an example of the CSS overlay menu. I think you have seen overlay popup in many websites. Mostly you can see overlay screen effect in pop-up login form or sing up form.

Basically, this overlay technique is used for displaying a window,  without leaving the existing page. And this is a pretty good effect. In other words, it seems very attractive to see. Many websites use this effect for responsive & mostly for small screen size. ( i.e. mobiles, tablet, etc.) If you ever used bootstrap then you know: bootstrap also uses this effect in default for the mobile version of web page.

Preview

If you have not yet understood which point in the conversation or what is overlay menu? then let’s see a preview of it:

 CSS Overlay Menu Source Code

This is an overlay menu with pure CSS, no JavaScript or JQuery. I just used HTML & CSS to create this small program or effect.  For creating the menu I used HTML list properties <ul> & <li>. For the front screen, I had just put an <h1> tag and paragraph <p> tag.

That’s only things you have to do in HTML. Now left all work is CSS. CSS is an ocean & peoples know about CSS equal to one drop. Even I am not also a CSS expert.

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Get Source Code

You have to create two files, one for HTML & other for CSS. There are lines of codes in the CSS file is more over than HTML file. Ratio of HTML & CSS in this overlay menu program is 1:4 ( 20% HTML & 80% CSS ).  Now create two files named ‘index.html‘ & ‘style.css‘.

Index.html

Put these given codes below in ‘index.html‘ file.

Style.css

Now put these codes in ‘style.css‘ file.

That’s it. Now you have successfully created an overlay menu. If you have any doubt or suggestion comment down below.

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1 COMMENT

  1. Thanks for the tutorial. I just do not manage to close the menu once a link is clicked (internal link with anchor). Is there a way, to close the menu in that case as well or does the Hamburger X has to be clicked all the time?

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