Create a Drop Down Menu In Blogger

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Why do you run after scripts such as jquery while you can use simple CSS and HTML to create beautiful drop down menus for your blog. I am sharing a simple code here that can be fully customize to make your preferred changes. So lets get to work!

 

How To Create a Drop Down Menu?

A drop down menu is needed when you have too much content on your blog or you love keeping things organized. To add a drop down menu to your blogger blogs do this:

1. Go To Blogger > Design > Page Elements
2. Select a HTML/JavaScript Widget just under the header and paste the following code inside it,

<div id='bcnavbar'>
      <ul id='bcnav'>
        <li>
          <a href='#'>Home</a>
</li>
        <li>
          <a href='#'>About</a>
</li>
        <li>
          <a href='#'>Contact</a>
</li>
  <li>
           <a href='#'>Sitemap</a>

<ul>
                <li><a href='#'>Sub Page #1</a></li>
                <li><a href='#'>Sub Page #2</a></li>
                <li><a href='#'>Sub Page #3</a></li>
              </ul>
</li>

      </ul>
    </div>

Replace # with your Page Links and the bolded text with relevant page names. The yellow highlighted code is responsible for the drop down menu. You can copy and paste it under any tab you want just before </li>

To add another tab just paste this code above </ul>

<li>
          <a href='#'>Tab Name</a>
</li>

    3.   Now Go to Design > Edit HTML

    4.   Backup your template and search for ,

]]></b:skin>

     3.   Just above it paste the code below,

/*----- BC Drop Down Menu ----*/

#bcnavbar {
    background: #060505;
    width: 960px;
    color: #FFF;
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0;
        position: relative;
        border-top:0px solid #960100;
        height:35px;

}

#bcnav {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
#bcnav ul {
    float: left;
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
#bcnav li {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
        border-left:1px solid #333;
        border-right:1px solid #333;
        height:35px;
}
#bcnav li a, #bcnav li a:link, #bcnav li a:visited {
    color: #FFF;
    display: block;
font:normal 12px Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
    padding: 9px 12px 10px 12px;
        text-decoration: none;

}
#bcnav li a:hover, #bcnav li a:active {
    background: #BF0100;
    color: #FFF;
    display: block;
    text-decoration: none;
        margin: 0;
    padding: 9px 12px 10px 12px;
}

#bcnav li {
    float: left;
    padding: 0;
}
#bcnav li ul {
    z-index: 9999;
    position: absolute;
    left: -999em;
    height: auto;
    width: 160px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
#bcnav li ul a {
    width: 140px;
}
#bcnav li ul ul {
    margin: -25px 0 0 161px;
}
#bcnav li:hover ul ul, #bcnav li:hover ul ul ul, #bcnav li.sfhover ul ul, #bcnav li.sfhover ul ul ul {
    left: -999em;
}
#bcnav li:hover ul, #bcnav li li:hover ul, #bcnav li li li:hover ul, #bcnav li.sfhover ul, #bcnav li li.sfhover ul, #bcnav li li li.sfhover ul {
    left: auto;
}
#bcnav li:hover, #bcnav li.sfhover {
    position: static;
}

#bcnav li li a, #bcnav li li a:link, #bcnav li li a:visited {
    background: #BF0100;
    width: 120px;
    color: #FFF;
    display: block;
font:normal 12px Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 9px 12px 10px 12px;
        text-decoration: none;
z-index:9999;
border-bottom:1px dotted #333;

}
#bcnav li li a:hover, #bcnavli li a:active {
    background: #060505;
    color: #FFF;
    display: block;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 9px 12px 10px 12px;
        text-decoration: none;
}

Make these changes:

• Change #060505 to change background color of the Main menu
• Change  the yellow highlighted text to change font color, size and family
• Change #BF0100 to change the background of a tab on mouse hover
• Change #BF0100 to change the background color of the drop down menu
• Change #060505 to change the background color of drop down menu on mouse hover

      4.    Save your template and you are done!

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