Pure CSS3 LavaLamp Menu

I think that you have already seen various animated menus with LavaLamp effect (based on jQuery plugin). Today I would like to tell you how to repeat the same behavior only with CSS3 (without any javascript). I had to use CSS3 transitions in our menu (to animate elements). So, if you are ready, let’s start.

Here are samples and downloadable package:

Live Demo

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download in package

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Ok, download the sources and lets start coding !

Step 1. HTML

As usual, we start with the HTML. Here is the html code of our menu. As usual – this is again UL-LI based navigation menu. The most interesting thing will be CSS styles of course.

index.html

ul id="nav"
    lia href="https://www.script-tutorials.com/"Home/a/li
    lia class="hsubs" href="#"Menu 1/a
        ul class="subs"
            lia href="#"Submenu 1/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 3/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 4/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 5/a/li
        /ul
    /li
    lia class="hsubs" href="#"Menu 2/a
        ul class="subs"
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-1/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-2/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-3/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-4/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-5/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-6/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-7/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 2-8/a/li
        /ul
    /li
    lia class="hsubs" href="#"Menu 3/a
        ul class="subs"
            lia href="#"Submenu 3-1/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 3-2/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 3-3/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 3-4/a/li
            lia href="#"Submenu 3-5/a/li
        /ul
    /li
    lia href="#"Menu 4/a/li
    lia href="#"Menu 5/a/li
    lia href="#"Menu 6/a/li
    lia href="https://www.script-tutorials.com/pure-css3-lavalamp-menu/"Back/a/li
    div id="lavalamp"/div
/ul

Step 2. CSS

Here are the CSS styles of our LavaLamp menu.

css/menu.css

#nav,#nav ul {
    list-style: none outside none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
#nav {
    background: url('menu_bg.png') no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    clear: both;
    font-size: 12px;
    height: 58px;
    padding: 0 0 0 9px;
    position: relative;
    width: 957px;
}
#nav ul {
    background-color: 
    border:1px solid 
    border-radius: 0 5px 5px 5px;
    border-width: 0 1px 1px;
    box-shadow: 0 5px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
    left: -9999px;
    overflow: hidden;
    position: absolute;
    top: -9999px;
    z-index: 2;
    -moz-transform: scaleY(0);
    -ms-transform: scaleY(0);
    -o-transform: scaleY(0);
    -webkit-transform: scaleY(0);
    transform: scaleY(0);
    -moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -ms-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -o-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
    transform-origin: 0 0;
    -moz-transition: -moz-transform 0.1s linear;
    -ms-transition: -ms-transform 0.1s linear;
    -o-transition: -o-transform 0.1s linear;
    -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.1s linear;
    transition: transform 0.1s linear;
}
#nav li {
    background: url('menu_line.png') no-repeat scroll right 5px transparent;
    float: left;
    position: relative;
}
#nav li a {
    color: 
    display: block;
    float: left;
    font-weight: normal;
    height: 30px;
    padding: 23px 20px 0;
    position: relative;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px 
}
#nav li:hover  a {
    color: 
}
#nav li:hover, #nav a:focus, #nav a:hover, #nav a:active {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 
    outline: 0 none;
}
#nav li:hover ul.subs {
    left: 0;
    top: 53px;
    width: 180px;
    -moz-transform: scaleY(1);
    -ms-transform: scaleY(1);
    -o-transform: scaleY(1);
    -webkit-transform: scaleY(1);
    transform: scaleY(1);
}
#nav ul li {
    background: none;
    width: 100%;
}
#nav ul li a {
    float: none;
}
#nav ul li:hover  a {
    background-color: 
    color: 
}
#lavalamp {
    background: url('lavalamp.png') no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    height: 16px;
    left: 13px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    width: 64px;
    -moz-transition: all 300ms ease;
    -ms-transition: all 300ms ease;
    -o-transition: all 300ms ease;
    -webkit-transition: all 300ms ease;
    transition: all 300ms ease;
}
#lavalamp:hover {
    -moz-transition-duration: 3000s;
    -ms-transition-duration: 3000s;
    -o-transition-duration: 3000s;
    -webkit-transition-duration: 3000s;
    transition-duration: 3000s;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(1):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 13px;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(2):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 90px;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(3):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 170px;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(4):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 250px;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(5):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 330px;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(6):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 410px;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(7):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 490px;
}
#nav li:nth-of-type(8):hover ~ #lavalamp {
    left: 565px;
}

Live Demo

Conclusion

Hope you enjoyed with our new CSS3 menu, don’t forget to tell thanks and leave a comment 🙂 Good luck!