No this is not flash. It is 100% jQuery! This menu is one of the best jQuery menus I have found and this is how you implement it for your own website!
- The html is a simple unordered list
- The css can be customised to colours to match your website
- The jQuery can be customised to the speeds and effects you require
See Live Demo
The following goes into the JavaScript file:
(function($) {
$.extend($.fx.step,{
backgroundPosition: function(fx) {
if (fx.state === 0 && typeof fx.end == 'string') {
var start = $.curCSS(fx.elem,'backgroundPosition');
start = toArray(start);
fx.start = [start[0],start[2]];
var end = toArray(fx.end);
fx.end = [end[0],end[2]];
fx.unit = [end[1],end[3]];
}
var nowPosX = [];
nowPosX[0] = ((fx.end[0] - fx.start[0]) * fx.pos) + fx.start[0] + fx.unit[0];
nowPosX[1] = ((fx.end[1] - fx.start[1]) * fx.pos) + fx.start[1] + fx.unit[1];
fx.elem.style.backgroundPosition = nowPosX[0]+' '+nowPosX[1];
function toArray(strg){
strg = strg.replace(/left|top/g,'0px');
strg = strg.replace(/right|bottom/g,'100%');
strg = strg.replace(/([0-9.]+)(s|)|$)/g,"$1px$2");
var res = strg.match(/(-?[0-9.]+)(px|%|em|pt)s(-?[0-9.]+)(px|%|em|pt)/);
return [parseFloat(res[1],10),res[2],parseFloat(res[3],10),res[4]];
}
}
});
})($);
$('#mynav a')
.css( {backgroundPosition: "0 0"} )
.mouseover(function(){
$(this).stop().animate({backgroundPosition:"(-150px 0)"}, {duration:700})
})
.mouseout(function(){
$(this).stop().animate({backgroundPosition:"(-300px 0)"}, {duration:700, complete:function(){
$(this).css({backgroundPosition: "0 0"})
}})
})
The following goes into the HTML:
Home
Find Blogs
My Blogs
About
Faq
These are the two background images which the jQuery uses to animate the menu items (you can change the colours to suit your website, switch between to get different hover effects).
Sam Deering
View AuthorSam Deering has 15+ years of programming and website development experience. He was a website consultant at Console, ABC News, Flight Centre, Sapient Nitro, and the QLD Government and runs a tech blog with over 1 million views per month. Currently, Sam is the Founder of Crypto News, Australia.
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