May 21, 2025
Discover a collection of stylish CSS dropdown menus for your website! This guide offers easy-to-implement, responsive CSS dropdown menu designs to enhance navigation and elevate your site's user experience.
Fancy dropdown menu in HTML and CSS. Inspired by
A smooth, animated dropdown menu with a unique gooey effect, perfect for modern web interfaces.
Using clip-path times two to make an irregular shaped object fill out a cut-out shape in an unfold open menu effect.
Navigation with Sub-Navigation dropdown menus.
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Codepen CodeAuthor: Cassidy Williams
Published: August 13, 2019
Made With: HTML , CSS (SCSS)
CSS only drop down menu.
Pure CSS Dropdown Menu good look.
Responsive gradient dropdown menu.
This combines a CSS drop down menu, and the oozing effects of liquid flame.
Horizontal menu with dropdown effects in HTML and CSS.
HTML & CSS Dropdown Menu and beautiful look.
Pure CSS horizontal dropdown menu with nice transitions and beautiful palette.
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Codepen CodeAuthor: Ahmed Nasr
Published: June 27, 2018
Made With: HTML , CSS (SCSS)
No JS - be sure to check out the mobile menu.
Cool HTML & CSS dropdown menu.
HTML and CSS dropdown menu with nice effect.
Cool dropdown menu pure CSS effects.
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Codepen CodeAuthor: Ruslan Pivovarov
Published: July 31, 2016
Made With: HTML (Pug) , CSS (SCSS)
Full CSS dropdown navigation. Drops down on click by the use of a hidden checkbox.
Only CSS recursive hover nav.
Simple, sleek looking dropdown menu effect achieved using pure CSS. Simple functionality, method can be extended to create a secondary dropdown block with few edits.
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Codepen CodeAuthor: Connor Brassington
Published: November 16, 2014
Made With: HTML (Pug) , CSS (SCSS)
Pure CSS dropdown menu.
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Codepen CodeAuthor: Sathish kumar
Published: February 19, 2015
Made With: HTML , CSS (SCSS)
Just a simple HTML and CSS dropdown menu.
Menu with dropdown made only in CSS, with a line that follow the hover on the line.
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Codepen CodeAuthor: Robert Borghesi
Published: February 17, 2015
Made With: HTML , CSS (SCSS)
Animated CSS dropdown menus.
This is a simple dropdown menu made using unsorted lists and CSS3 transitions.
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Codepen CodeAuthor: Lauren
Published: July 14, 2013
Made With: HTML CSS,LESS JavaScript (jquery.js)
The hover menu is pure CSS. The toggle menu utilizes a minimal amount of JavaScript, but will degrade gracefully because it only uses JavaScript to close the menu when the user clicks outside of the menu.
Simple, CSS only, responsive dropdown menu.
This is just another dropdown menu concept.