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Vista Aero Buttons Menu

Author: Dynamic Drive

This menu consists of a row of independent, Vista aero looking CSS buttons, and departs from the typical list based menu structure. Each button appears initially faded out slightly via CSS opacity, then brought back to full opacity during the "hover" state. The caveat for this menu is the fixed height of each button based on the graphic interface, hence isn't ideal if the buttons' font size is changed from the default.

Demo:

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The two images used:

(black theme)

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.aerobuttonmenu{ /*container that holds a row of aero buttons*/
overflow: hidden; /*See: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html */
width: auto;
background: #F7F7F7; /*menu strip background*/
border: 1px solid gray;
padding: 4px 0;
border-width: 1px 0;
}

* html .aerobuttonmenu{ /*IE6 and below hack. Set explicit strip width*/
width: 100%;
}

.aerobuttonmenu a.aero{ /*aero button CSS*/
background: transparent url('media/aeroleft.gif') no-repeat top left;
display: block;
float: left;
font: bold 13px Verdana, Trebuchet MS; /* Change 13px as desired */
line-height: 23px; /* This value + 8px should equal height of button background (default is 31px) */
height: 31px; /* Height of button background height */
padding-left: 10px; /* Width of left menu image */
text-decoration: none;
margin-right: 5px; /*spacing between buttons*/
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=90); /*this and next two rules control opacity of buttons before hover*/
opacity: 0.9;
-moz-opacity: 0.9;
}

.aerobuttonmenu a.aero:link, .aerobuttonmenu a.aero:visited, .aerobuttonmenu a:active{
color: white; /*button text color*/
}

.aerobuttonmenu a.aero span{
background: transparent url('media/aeroright.gif') no-repeat top right;
display: block;
padding: 4px 10px 6px 0; /*Set 10px here to match value of 'padding-left' value above*/
}

.aerobuttonmenu a.aero:hover{ /* Hover state CSS */
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=100); /*this and next two rules control opacity of buttons during hover*/
opacity: 1;
-moz-opacity: 0.99;
}

.aerobuttonmenu a.aero:hover span{ /* Hover state CSS (for text) */
color: yellow;
}

.black a.aero{
background-image: url('media/aeroleftblack.gif');
}

.black a.aero span{
background-image: url('media/aerorightblack.gif');
}

.aerobuttonmenu .rightsection{
float: right;
width: 100px;
position: relative;
top: 3px;
padding-right: 5px;
text-align: right;
}

.aerobuttonmenu .rightsection a{
color: navy;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<h4>Aero Blue and Black Button Menus:</h4>

<div class="aerobuttonmenu">

<div class="rightsection">
<a href="#"><img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/33mpnon.png" border="0" alt="search" /></a>
</div>

<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com" class="aero"><span>Home</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/" class="aero"><span>CSS Examples</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/" class="aero"><span>Forums</span></a> 
<a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com" class="aero"><span>Webmaster Tools</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com" class="aero"><span>JavaScript</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.cssdrive.com" class="aero"><span>Gallery</span></a>
</div>

<br />

<div class="aerobuttonmenu black">

<div class="rightsection">
<a href="#"><img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/33mpnon.png" border="0" alt="search" /></a>
</div>

<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com" class="aero"><span>Home</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/" class="aero"><span>CSS Examples</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/" class="aero"><span>Forums</span></a> 
<a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com" class="aero"><span>Webmaster Tools</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com" class="aero"><span>JavaScript</span></a> 
<a href="http://www.cssdrive.com" class="aero"><span>Gallery</span></a>
</div>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 06/16/2008

Revision History: None

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Comment Pages 2 of 7 pages < 1 2 3 4 > Last »

is there a way to centre the menue I know that there is float left/right is there a way to force the menu to centre
Thank you
Exit

Posted by exit on 07/24, 11:32 AM

teriffic. i prefer setting original opacity to .85 and not have the text change color. it's much nicer

Posted by Dave on 08/10, 06:54 PM

Hey hopemedia! Just set onclick to document.forms['form_name'].submit(). should work.

Posted by Dave on 08/10, 06:56 PM

hi this is my 1st web page

Posted by Niranjan on 08/12, 11:54 PM

It's not the proper way to use the css it's types of genera

Posted by Mustaqeem Kamal on 09/07, 11:30 PM

anyone can help how to use this css joomla module position.
Thanks for this great tutorial

Posted by Bali komang on 09/21, 11:10 AM

hi i do noo how to use this css codes please help

Posted by ezadin on 09/30, 06:49 PM

how do i add a drop down for this menu

Posted by Dallas on 10/03, 10:06 PM

Thank you so much, this is very easy and nice looking

Posted by Firefly on 10/16, 09:57 PM

Great menu, how can I eliminate the greey background an center the buttons in the page ?

Posted by deepjavero on 10/17, 10:30 AM

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