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Monalisha Mondol
Monalisha Mondol

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Sidebar Menu Using Only HTML and CSS

Hello readers, Today in this blog you’ll learn how to create a Sidebar Menu using HTML and CSS only. Previously I have shared a Responsive Navigation Menu Bar using HTML & CSS only, now it’s time to create a Side Navigation Menu Bar that slides from the left or right side.
As you can see in the image, this is a Side Navigation Menu Bar that is based on only HTML and CSS. The checkbox tag is used to show and hide the sidebar. That means when you click on that ‘X’ button the sidebar will be slide on the left side and the only menu button is shown (3 lines bar) and again when you click on that 3 lines bar the Sidebar will be slide-right side.
When you click on that three-line bars, the checkbox will be checked and the Side Menu Bar is shown and when you again click on that bars, the checkbox will be unchecked and that shown menu bar will be hidden. This process is only done by HTML tag and tag.
If you’re feeling difficult to understand what I am saying. You can watch a full video tutorial on this program (Side Navigation Menu Bar).

Video Tutorial of Sidebar Menu using HTML and CSS

I hope you’ve understood the basic concept of this Sidebar Menu after watching this video tutorial. I think this video can help beginners to know CSS in depth. You can use this program or design on your website or project after a few changes according you want. Also, you can redesign this program to take this sidebar menu to the next level.
If you like this Login Form Design and want to get source codes. You can easily get the source codes of this program. To get the source codes you just need to scroll down.

Side Navbar using HTML & CSS [Source Codes]

Before sharing the source codes of this program (Side Navigation Menu Bar). Let’s a few talks about the main tags and codes of this program. To create this Side Navigation Menu Bar I had used HTML & CSS only which means this is a pure CSS program.
As you can see in the video, this program is a fully ul and li based program, that’s why we can create a menu easily. You can call this CSS Side Navigation Bar without the use of Javascript. I’ve used input type=”checkbox” and label for=” tag to toggle Menu Bar for the mobile version. I also used the Fontawesome icon to show a 3-line bar and the ‘X’ button. Generally, font-awesome is a website where we can get thousands of free icons for our projects.
You can also download the source code files through the given link. In the source files, there you also get a background image of this program.

Click here to demo and Video tutorial.

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