Simple horizontal navigation bar with drop down using CSS

Horizontal Navigation Menu bar is the most important part of any website. Most of them are just a horizontal bar with menu options, while there are others which have drop down menus too, so as to manage more sub options. Today we have accomplished one such super simple, modern and elegant Navigation Bar with dropdown menu, using simple CSS styling.

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  HTML part  

In the HTML part we define the options name and the redirecting links.

<div id='cssmenu'>
<ul>
<li class='active '><a href='index.html'><span>Home</span></a></li>
<li class='has-sub '><a href='#'><span>Products</span></a>
<ul>
<li class='has-sub '><a href='#'><span>Product 1</span></a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'><span>Sub Item</span></a></li>
<li><a href='#'><span>Sub Item</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class='has-sub '><a href='#'><span>Product 2</span></a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'><span>Sub Item</span></a></li>
<li><a href='#'><span>Sub Item</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'><span>About</span></a></li>
<li><a href='#'><span>Contact</span></a></li></ul>
</div>

  Styling Part - CSS  

The main part of this whole navigation menu implementation is this. And you can easily customize this styling as per your websites needs.

#cssmenu ul { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
#cssmenu li { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
#cssmenu a { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
#cssmenu ul {list-style: none;}
#cssmenu a {text-decoration: none;}
#cssmenu {height: 70px; background-color: rgb(35,35,35); box-shadow: 0px 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.4);}
#cssmenu > ul > li {
    float: left;
    margin-left: 15px;
    position: relative;
}
#cssmenu > ul > li > a {
    color: rgb(160,160,160);
    font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande';
    font-size: 15px;
    line-height: 70px;
    padding: 15px 20px;
-webkit-transition: color .15s;
   -moz-transition: color .15s;
     -o-transition: color .15s;
        transition: color .15s;
}
#cssmenu > ul > li > a:hover {color: rgb(250,250,250); }
#cssmenu > ul > li > ul {
    opacity: 0;
    visibility: hidden;
    padding: 16px 0 20px 0;
    background-color: rgb(250,250,250);
    text-align: left;
    position: absolute;
    top: 55px;
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -90px;
    width: 180px;
-webkit-transition: all .3s .1s;
   -moz-transition: all .3s .1s;
     -o-transition: all .3s .1s;
        transition: all .3s .1s;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
   -moz-border-radius: 5px;
        border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
   -moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
        box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
}
#cssmenu > ul > li:hover > ul {
    opacity: 1;
    top: 65px;
    visibility: visible;
}
#cssmenu > ul > li > ul:before{
    content: '';
    display: block;
    border-color: transparent transparent rgb(250,250,250) transparent;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 10px;
    position: absolute;
    top: -20px;
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -10px;
}
#cssmenu > ul ul > li { position: relative;}
#cssmenu ul ul a{
    color: rgb(50,50,50);
    font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande';
    font-size: 13px;
    background-color: rgb(250,250,250);
    padding: 5px 8px 7px 16px;
    display: block;
-webkit-transition: background-color .1s;
   -moz-transition: background-color .1s;
     -o-transition: background-color .1s;
        transition: background-color .1s;
}
#cssmenu ul ul a:hover {background-color: rgb(240,240,240);}
#cssmenu ul ul ul {
    visibility: hidden;
    opacity: 0;
    position: absolute;
    top: -16px;
    left: 206px;
    padding: 16px 0 20px 0;
    background-color: rgb(250,250,250);
    text-align: left;
    width: 160px;
-webkit-transition: all .3s;
   -moz-transition: all .3s;
     -o-transition: all .3s;
        transition: all .3s;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
   -moz-border-radius: 5px;
        border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
   -moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
        box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
}
#cssmenu ul ul > li:hover > ul { opacity: 1; left: 196px; visibility: visible;}
#cssmenu ul ul a:hover{
    background-color: rgb(205,44,36);
    color: rgb(240,240,240);
}

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