25 Best Collection of jQuery Menu Design Tutorials

Menu is the heart of the navigation for any website. jQuery lets you create attractive and intuitive animated menus. This collection of jQuery menu design tutorials collection lets you create beautiful and animated menus in jQuery with ease.

1. jQuery Tutorial – Create a Sliding Menu Using jQuery

This time we’ll be building a sleek menu using jquery and some styles. What’s beautiful about jquery is how you can change a few bits and you get an entirely new effect.

2. jQuery Tutorial – Simple Lava Lamp Menu Tutorial with jQuery

Lava Lamp Menu is one of the favourite menu that has been using by some websites. It has a jQuery plugin for it, we’re not reinventing the wheel, but it will be good to know how it works, how to customize it and make a unique one.

3. jQuery Tutorial – How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery

Ever seen some excellent jQuery navigation that left you wanting to make one of your own? Today we’ll aim to do just that by building a menu and animate it with some smooth effects.

4. jQuery Tutorial – Create a Vertical Scrolling Menu with CSS and jQuery

After creating a horizontal scrolling menu, I received a lot of responses from people who wanted vertical version of the same menu. So here it is, a fully reworked menu, with some new features, like text tooltips and loading message.

5. jQuery Tutorial – Create a Horizontal Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery

There are a lot of cool flash scrolling menus out there, for example this or this one. But I decided to make a similarly looking menu with just CSS and jQuery. I couldn’t achieve the same smoothness in animation, but anyway I’m really satisfied with the result.

6. jQuery Tutorial – Create an attractive Slide and hide section with jquery

This jQuery Tutorial explains how to create cool and attractive seide and hide menu with jquery.

7. jQuery Tutorial – Create a smooth tabbed menu in jQuery

Hi guys! As we have said many times, websites are evolving to rich online applications and tabbed menus can be very power and useful to show content to our visitors. In this case, we are going to learn how to create a smooth tabbed menu with our lovely jQuery library. With simple and clean layout we can have a great tabbed menu for our websites.

8. jQuery Tutorial – Create A State-Saving jQuery Accordion Menu Without Reloading the Page

After finding jQuery, I fell in love with it’s ease of use and relatively small code footprint. When I set out to create this site, I wanted something that: used the entire page, scaled well, looked nice, degraded gracefully and was SEO friendly. What I found was jQuery’s accordion menu. You may recognize the second example (#list1b) as a smaller version of my Portfolio; however, I wanted to tweak it (of course) and make it so each section housed my page copy and could be bookmarked and re-accessed without having to re-click on that section. I also completely re-styled the menu with a CSS file but that is beyond this tutorial.

9. Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery

As you know there are a host of competing javascript libraries around these days. Though I prefer jQuery, I’ve always liked the way the menu on MooTools worked. So in this tutorial we’ll recreate that same effect … but we’ll do it in jQuery!

10. jQuery Tutorial – Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery

Since I wrote my last tutorial on how to create a CSS only multilevel dropdown menu I got a lot of visitors who wanted to know how I created the main navigation of kriesi.at. (a so called kwicks menu) The interest in extraordinary menus seems to be high nowadays, so today I will teach you how this is done.

11. jQuery Tutorial – LavaLamp for jQuery lovers

As User Interface developers, we know that one of the first widgets our visitors use is a “Menu”. Capturing their attention right there is something that we always strive for, and I guess LavaLamp is a step in that direction. Before you get bored with all this useless talk, let me get you started on integrating LavaLamp into your jQuery powered site.

12. jQuery Tutorial – Sliding Top Menu With jQuery

This is a sliding top menu built with jQuery which can be fired through the open & close buttons or with any tag with the related class name.

13. jQuery Tutorial – Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery

SitePoint’s Craig Buckler blogged yesterday about what he sees as the next big thing in web design: mega drop-down menus. They’re cropping up everywhere, and now that usability guru, Jakob Nielsen thinks they’re quite good, you can expect to see even more of these very soon

14. Simple JQuery Accordion menu

This is a simple Accordion menu done in JQuery. Links with subitems under them will expand the submenu when clicked. Items that don’t have subitems are normal links. (example link to Marco’s blog). The menu initialises with the first submenu expanded.

15. Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery Tutorial

Create a horizontal scroll menu that scroll automatically according to your mouse axis-Y movement. This tutorial will cover some jquery tips, tricks, and plugin.

16. jQuery Tutorial – Create an Attractive jQuery Menu with Fadein and Fadeout Effect

We will be learning how to create an attractive menu with more advanced CSS and simple jQuery script. It uses jQuery builtin fadein and fadeout effect.

17. jQuery Tutorial – Create A Color Fading Menu with jQuery

Hello, I am Liam Goodacre, and Chris has asked me to write a short jQuery tutorial on how to achieve fading hover effects. I will demonstrate how to perform colour and image merging. We will be using jQuery and the jQuery Colour plugin.

18. jQuery Tutorial – Create A Sliding Jquery Menu

Hi there welcome to another tutorial, in this tutorial il show you how to create a sliding menu button using jquery. You can see the effect in action over on the PSDtuts webpage in the top right hand corner.

19. jQuery Tutorial – Sleek Drop Down Menu with jQuery & CSS

In this tutorial I would like to go over how to create a sleek drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.

20. jQuery Tutorial – Create A Dropdown Menu using jQuery

This article is intended to describe an extremely basic, yet extremely powerful, technique for adding dropdown menus in your application user interface or website design.

21. jQuery Tutorial – Create iPod-style Drilldown and Flyout Menu

The iPod-style menu provides easy navigation of complex nested structures with any number of levels. The entire menu sits within a fixed-size area, and when a node is selected, by default a “Back” link appears below the menu to allow navigation to previous (parent) menus, or set options to show breadcrumb links above the menu options to both deliver feedback and allow quick access to nodes higher up in the hierarchy.

22. jQuery Tutorial – Creating a Floating HTML Menu Using jQuery and CSS

For all of us who deal with long web pages and need to scroll to the top for the menu, here’s a nice alternative: floating menus that move as you scroll a page. This is done using HTML, CSS and jQuery, and it’s fully W3C-compliant.

23. jQuery Tutorial – Simple animated menu with jquery

Jquery is, of course, one the best( or the best) JavaScript framework actually. With jquery we can create amazing effects on the web pages, writing some few lines of codes, and you don’t need to be an experienced web programmer. In this post I will show you how to create a nice and simple vertical menu with css and jquery, writing few lines of code.

24. jQuery Tutorial – Fading Menu – Replacing Content

The more I learn about jQuery, the more natural it feels. Probably because of how closely tied to CSS it is. From a design perspective, the syntax for jQuery is: “When I do this, make the CSS do this.” So now instead of thinking about CSS as page layout and a way to style your page when it loads, you can use in animation and change it on-the-fly to react to events that happen on your page. Take for example a menu. You can take the “click” event that happens when clicking on a menu to do lots of stuff.

25. jQuery Tutorial – Animated Menus Using jQuery

I recently stumbled upon Dragon Interactive (dragoninteractive.com). It’s a pretty well designed site. However, the pièce de résistance is their rather cool animated menu. Now… had this been designed in Adobe Flash, I wouldn’t had paid much attention. A closer inspection revealed that the menu is plain XHTML, CSS and Javascript. Today, I’m going to show you how to create an animated menu (very similar to Dragon Interactive’s menu).