14 Easy to Implement Drop Down Menu Solutions
I believe the navigation of a website should always be simple. However, if a website has many pages and sub pages, the thought of navigation simplicity goes out the window. This is where drop down menus come into play. A good and well executed drop down menu can make navigating a large site easy for the user. While drop downs make site navigation easy, sometimes they can seem difficult to implement, but the solutions listed below are all a breeze to set up, especially since most of them are built on jQuery or MooTools.
Superfish
jQuery SuckerFish Style
Drop Down Tabs
Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery
droppy
Simple Drop Down Menu for jQuery
Smooth Navigational Menu
jQuery Multi Level CSS Menu #1
Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery
UvumiTools Dropdown Menu
MooTools Drop Down Menu
MenuMatic
Simple CSS vertical menu Digg-like
JavaScript Dropdown Menu with Multi Levels
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Aug 19, 2009
The Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery looks great due to the clean code it produces. Nice list of drop down menus, am i right in assuming that some of these are free and some you have to pay for?
Aug 19, 2009
amazing listing.
Aug 19, 2009
Not a big fan of drop downs but people still want them. Still some nice menus there, thanks
Aug 19, 2009
These could be very useful for an Ecom site to quickly filter down to a product or sub Cat level.
Aug 19, 2009
Other than one of those jquery examples these are some of the ugliest 1990s looking drop down menus.
Aug 19, 2009
I really like superfish, I think I’m going to start using it in my sites.
Aug 19, 2009
oh suckerfish, still one of the easiest and best
Aug 19, 2009
Superfish is the only way to go! I love it and it rarely does me wrong! The transitions are beautiful in standards-compliant browsers.
@anthony, that’s the beauty of CSS, the massive customization possibilities! Don’t be reined in by the demo code
Aug 19, 2009
This is so cool. I’m so glad I found this. Thanks for the info!
Aug 20, 2009
You might also want to check out Menu.js, it’s a small JavaScript (drop-down) menu for developers. Free/open source and based on Prototype: http://www.menujs.net/
It just handles the basic JavaScript actions for expanding and collapsing the menu, including a user-friendly delay before hiding (or showing) the sub menu. You can use your own CSS styling to create any design you want!
The examples on the website are not the best looking ones, but check out the live-website examples for what it can really do.
Aug 20, 2009
This is a useful compilation. Thanks!
Aug 20, 2009
Nice examples
Aug 20, 2009
Pretty good list of drop downs! Would probably use basic css style navigations! But could be tempted to use jquery or mootools for multiple-column layouts!
Aug 22, 2009
Great Post.
Check out jQueryBasics.com
http://jquerybasics.com
Aug 25, 2009
Good list of drop down menus here. Plenty to choose from and I might have to use some of these in my next websites. Thanks for sharing these.
Aug 25, 2009
nice list man, this kinda menu are always useful for some of my project
thx for share
Aug 30, 2009
Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery are the best
Oct 15, 2009
#useful
Oct 15, 2009
Hi pal!!
Can any one help me to create grid view with the help of ajax+mvc+jquery with image icon and related information..