Pure CSS Horizontal Menu

We come across horizontal menus on almost every website. Pure CSS helps us implement such menus with ease by using the pure-menu class. Pure-menu class by default creates a vertical menu which we can simply convert into a horizontal one by adding the class pure-menu-horizontal. One of the most common uses of a horizontal menu is in navigation bars (navbars).

We will use the following classes to help us achieve the goal at hand:

pure-menu: This helps us create a menu. (creates a vertical menu by default)
pure-menu-horizontal: This helps us create a horizontal menu.
pure-menu-list: This helps us specify the list which contains the menu items.
pure-menu-item: This helps us specify that a particular item belongs in the list
pure-menu-link: This helps us specify the links in the menu items
pure-menu-heading: This helps us specify a heading for our menu

Syntax:

<div class="pure-menu pure-menu-horizontal">
    <ul class="pure-menu-list">
        <li class="pure-menu-heading">...</li>
        <li class="pure-menu-item">
            <a href="#" class="pure-menu-link">
                ...
            </a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

Note: Do not forget to add the pure CSS CDN to be able to use the pure CSS framework

Example: Let us suppose we want to create a horizontal menu for the nav bar of our portfolio.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <!--pure-CSS-CDN-->
    <link rel="stylesheet"
          href=
"https://unpkg.com/purecss@2.0.6/build/pure-min.css"
          integrity=
"sha384-Uu6IeWbM+gzNVXJcM9XV3SohHtmWE+3VGi496jvgX1jyvDTXfdK+rfZc8C1Aehk5" 
          crossorigin=
"anonymous">

    <!--Custom style for the logo-->
    <style>
        .logo {
            color: #2f8d46;
            font-weight: bold;
            font-size: 1.5rem;
        }
    </style>

    <title>Menu</title>
</head>

<body>
    <nav class="menu pure-menu pure-menu-horizontal">
        <a href="#" 
           class="logo pure-menu-heading pure-menu-link">
            MYSITE
        </a>
        <ul class="menu pure-menu-list">
            <li class="pure-menu-item">
                <a class="pure-menu-link">
                  About
                </a>
            </li>
            <li class="pure-menu-item">
                <a class="pure-menu-link">
                  Projects
                </a>
            </li>
            <li class="pure-menu-item">
                <a class="pure-menu-link">
                  Contact
                </a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
</body>

</html>

Output:

Pure CSS Horizontal Menu

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