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Posted by Kenneth Stanfield
Kenneth Stanfield
539 Points

Switching from hamburger in mobile to horizontal navigation in larger screens with media queries

I am trying to figure out how to use media queries to switch from my horizontal navigation (used for large screens), or a hamburger type navigation for mobile screens. Any tips?

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

do you have any code you are working on, or is this a general question?

5 Answers

eck
eck
43,038 Points

Your media queries will simply need to hide your navigation links and show a hamburger button while at smaller screen widths. This part is fairly simple. But to make it actually work, as in, open and close your menu when you click the hamburger button, you will most likely need to use JavaScript.

If you have no experience with JS, I suggest checking out some tutorials on jQuery, like this one.

Jordan Davis
Jordan Davis
7,696 Points
Jordan Davis
Jordan Davis
7,696 Points

Geat read! definitely recommend reading this article, very insightful!

Cody Craig
Cody Craig
10,326 Points
Cody Craig
Cody Craig
10,326 Points

I am not sure what you are aiming to do with it. As Erik said, there are quite a few options that use JavaScript. However, there are some css only options that are worthwhile checking out too. Try searching pure css off canvas menus.

Keith Ostertag
Keith Ostertag
16,619 Points
Keith Ostertag
Keith Ostertag
16,619 Points

Thanks to Lorraine Wheat for the link to that awesome tutorial!

Piyush Patel
Piyush Patel
17,253 Points
Piyush Patel
Piyush Patel
17,253 Points

Yeah and I think this can also be achieve with the help of CSS3 translate and display: none properties.