![]() ![]() Given timelines and restraints, it wasn’t a possibility for that project. The answer from engineering: definitely not. I wondered if we could achieve a similar look for the player on the Wall Street Journal’s site. I previously worked at SoundCloud and knew that these kinds of visualizations were useful for users who skip through audio. One of the designers on the project was working on the podcast player, and I came upon Megaphone’s embedded player. But sometimes, I step on a technical landmine.Ī few years ago, as the design director of wsj.com, I was helping to re-design the Wall Street Journal’s podcast directory. I pride myself on thinking of the developers on my team while designing user interfaces. As a UI designer, I’m constantly reminded of the value of knowing how to code. active class is not in the HTML code, we will dynamically add it with JavaScript. Menu items will be only revealed when the user clicks the toggle button. item elements using the display: none rule. In the CSS below, we also use the justify-content and align-items properties to align the flex items horizontally and vertically. So, flexbox will display them below each other, while the logo and toggle will retain their natural sizes and sit on top of the navbar in the same row. The CSS trick here is that we make regular menu items such as Home and About span across the entire container using the width: 100% rule. Instead, we will create a wrapping, row-based layout for mobile so that we can display the logo and toggle button next to each other on top of the menu. Even though this is an excellent solution, we won’t use it in our example. Most responsive flexbox menus use column-based layouts for mobile, as menu items can be quickly packed below each other by adding the flex-direction: column rule to the flex container. (If you want to make the menu work offline, you’ll need to host Font Awesome locally.)Īs our navigation will be mobile-first, we start with the mobile layout. To make the demo work, you’ll need to add the Font Awesome library to the section of the HTML document from CDN using the code below. ![]() Note: the toggle button at the end of the list uses a Font Awesome icon. This is because empty tags are omitted from the default tab order, so we need to put them back to the tabbing order with the tabindex attribute to keep the menu keyboard-accessible. ![]() We also add the tabindex="0" attribute to elements without a href attribute. Using the anchor tag without href is permitted and prevents the page from jumping up on small screens when the user clicks the empty menu item to open or close the submenu. We do this because these “empty” parent menu items don’t lead to any other page–they just open and close the submenu. You have probably noticed that menu items with a submenu (“Services” and “Plans”) have an tag without an href attribute. If you aren’t used to flexbox, or need a refresher, these beginner guides will give you all the skills you need to complete this tutorial: You can also test, fork, and play around with the interactive demo on CodePen: The navigation bar will also have a JavaScript-based dropdown submenu that opens and closes when the user clicks the parent menu item.Īnd, this is how it will look on desktop: Then, we will add the tablet- and desktop-specific CSS using min-width media queries. Our responsive navigation bar will be mobile-first, so we will create the mobile layout first. We will use media queries to detect the viewport size of the user’s browser. a desktop layout in which all the menu items, except for the toggle button, will be visible on the screen.a tablet layout in which we will show two call-to-action buttons between the logo and toggle in the default state and the rest of the menu will remain toggleable,.a mobile layout in which only the logo and a toggle button will be visible by default and users can open and close the menu using the toggle,.Our flexbox navigation will have three different layouts, depending on the viewport size: In this tutorial, we’ll look into how to create a responsive navigation bar with flexbox. Using flexbox’s ordering, alignment, and sizing properties, we can build navigation bars that adapt their layouts to the viewport size while keeping the HTML outline logical and accessible. How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar with Flexboxįlexbox is Perfect for Responsive Navigationįlexbox is a versatile layout module with which we can create one-dimensional layouts that require flexibility, such as responsive menus. ![]()
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