RESPONSIVE NAVBAR WITH HTML, CSS, AND JAVASCRIPT

Building a responsive design is one of the important parts of web development, and the navbar helps users to navigate through different pages of the website with ease.

In this, article, I will assume you have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Getting started

Start with some basic HTML for layout

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>

</head>
<body>
    <div class="nav">
        <div class="logo">
             <a href="#">logo</a>
        </div>
        <ul class='navbar'>
            <li><a href="#">about</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">service</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">contact</a></li>
        </ul>   
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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Create and link your stylesheet to your HTML file

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">

Let’s style our navbar


*{
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}
body{
    width: 100%;
    height: 100vh;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    font-family: sans-serif;
}
.nav{

    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
    align-content: center;
    background:#000;
    color: #fff;
    padding: 1em 6em;

}

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Using CSS flexbox properties navbar divs now aligned horizontally.

Style the logo

    padding: 0 1em;
}
.logo a{
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 1.5em;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

Style the navbar list

.nav ul{
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
    align-content: center;

}
.nav li{
    list-style: none;

}
.nav a{
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
    padding-right:2em;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-size: 1em;

}
.nav a:hover{
    color: rgb(216, 185, 10);
    letter-spacing: 2px;
}

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Add the toggle bar in your HTML, you can use font awesome icon or your preferred icon.

<div class="nav">
        <div class="logo">
             <a href="#">logo</a>
        </div>
        <ul class='navbar'>
            <li><a href="#">about</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">service</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">contact</a></li>
        </ul>   
        <div class="toggle">
            <span class="bar"></span>
            <span class="bar"></span>
            <span class="bar"></span>
        </div>
    </div>

Style the toggle bar


.toggle{
    position: absolute;
    top: 1rem;
    right: 1rem;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: space-between;
    width: 30px;
    height: 21px;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.bar{
    width: 100%;
    background: #fff;
    height: 3px;
}

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Hide the toggle bar by changing display flex to display none

 display: none;

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The navbar looks good on laptops, desktops, tablets, Ipad and large screens, we need to make it look good on mobile devices using CSS media queries.

Let’s make our navbar responsive on a mobile device

@media (max-width: 480px){

    .logo{
        padding: 0 0.5em;
    }
    .toggle{
      display: flex;
    }

    .nav ul{
        padding-top: 3em;
        flex-direction: column;

    }
    .nav li{
        padding-bottom: 2em;
        text-align: center;
    }

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Let’s hide our navbar list

.nav ul{
        padding-top: 3em;
        flex-direction: column;
        display: none;

    }

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Let’s show our navbar list only when we click on our toggle bar using javascript.

Create your script file and link it to your html file
Create a new variable and assign it the classname of toggle and the navbar list using document. queryselector().

let responsive = document.querySelector('.toggle');
let view = document.querySelector('.nav ul');

Using javascript onlick event, write a function that check if the navbar list display = 'none' and dispalay block and the else statement set the navbar list to display none .

responsive.addEventListener("click" , function () {
  if (view.style.display === "none"){
    view.style.display = 'block'


  }
  else{
    view.style.display = 'none',

  }
});

Now, we have our responsive navbar, it's time to build amazing projects.

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How To Make Responsive Navbar Using Html, Css, And Javascript