Here is what the final result will look like:

Here are samples and downloadable packages:

Live Demo

download in package

Ok, download the example files and lets start coding !

Step 1. HTML

As usual, we start with the HTML.

Here is the full html code with our menu. As you can see - this is multi-level menu. I hope that you can easily understand it. The whole menu is built on UL-LI elements.

index.html

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

<div class="example">
    <ul id="nav">
        <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
        <li><a class="fly" href="#">Tutorials</a>
            <ul class="dd">
                <li><a href="#">HTML / CSS</a></li>
                <li><a class="fly" href="#">JS / jQuery</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">jQuery</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">JS</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">XSLT</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a class="fly" href="#">Resources</a>
            <ul class="dd">
                <li><a class="fly" href="#">By category</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
                        <li><a class="fly" href="#">Menu1</a>
                            <ul>
                                <li><a href="#">Menu1</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Menu2</a></li>
                                <li><a class="fly" href="#">Menu3</a>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li><a href="#">Menu31</a></li>
                                        <li><a href="#">Menu32</a></li>
                                        <li><a href="#">Menu33</a></li>
                                        <li><a href="#">Menu34</a></li>
                                    </ul>
                                </li>
                                <li><a href="#">Menu4</a></li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li><a class="fly" href="#">By tag name</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">captcha</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">gallery</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">animation</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

Step 2. CSS

Here are the CSS styles I used. First two selectors - a layout of our demo page. All rest belong to the menu.

css/style.css

/* demo page styles */
body {
    background:#eee;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}
.example {
    background:#fff url(../images/tech.jpg);
    width:770px;
    height:570px;
    border:1px #000 solid;
    margin:20px auto;
    padding:15px;
    border-radius:3px;
    -moz-border-radius:3px;
    -webkit-border-radius:3px;
}


/* main menu styles */
#nav,#nav ul {
    background-image:url(../images/tr75.png);
    list-style:none;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}
#nav {
    height:41px;
    padding-left:5px;
    padding-top:5px;
    position:relative;
    z-index:2;
}
#nav ul {
    left:-9999px;
    position:absolute;
    top:37px;
    width:auto;
}
#nav ul ul {
    left:-9999px;
    position:absolute;
    top:0;
    width:auto;
}
#nav li {
    float:left;
    margin-right:5px;
    position:relative;
}
#nav li a {
    background:#c1c1bf;
    color:#000;
    display:block;
    float:left;
    font-size:16px;
    padding:8px 10px;
    text-decoration:none;
}
#nav > li > a {
    -moz-border-radius:6px;
    -webkit-border-radius:6px;
    -o-border-radius:6px;
    border-radius:6px;

    overflow:hidden;
}
#nav li a.fly {
    background:#c1c1bf url(../images/arrow.gif) no-repeat right center;
    padding-right:15px;
}
#nav ul li {
    margin:0;
}
#nav ul li a {
    width:120px;
}
#nav ul li a.fly {
    padding-right:10px;
}

/*hover styles*/
#nav li:hover > a {
    background-color:#858180;
    color:#fff;
}

/*focus styles*/
    #nav li a:focus {
    outline-width:0;
}

/*popups*/
#nav li a:active + ul.dd,#nav li a:focus + ul.dd,#nav li ul.dd:hover {
    left:0;
}
#nav ul.dd li a:active + ul,#nav ul.dd li a:focus + ul,#nav ul.dd li ul:hover {
    left:140px;
}

Step 3. Images

Our menu is using only three images: arrow.gif, tech.jpg and tr75.png. I didn't include them into tutorial because two of them are very small (will be difficult to locate) and the last one is just background image. All images will be in the package.

Conclusion

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and learned something new.  Good luck!

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