Monday, November 3, 2014

10 Awesome Mobile Menu plugins and tutorials

Due to high usage of smartphones, creating mobile apps, mobile site or responsive site has become a must have thing which helps to expand the customer base. Create mobile specific site or responsive site is a challenging things due to presence of different mobile OS, different screen size phones with different resolution, different software and hardware. As limited space is available on mobile device for displaying website, so creating menu is challenging. But not to worry. 

Today we have complied list of 10 awesome, free and ready to use jQuery plugins and tutorials for creating mobile menus. Enjoy..
  
Shifter is a jQuery plugin for simple slide-out mobile navigation. Shifter works by checking for target elements in the DOM and binding events to them.



SlickNav


SlickNav is a responsive mobile menu plugin for jQuery with features like multi-level menu support, cross-browser compatibility, Flexible, simple markup and degrades gracefully without JavaScript.


Menutron


Menutron transforms your navigation menus from a list to a select menu when resizing your browser. On mobile devices, the select menu pulls up a native control, making it easier to pick an item.


Responsive and Touch-Friendly Menu


Tutorial for creating responsive and touch-friendly dropdown navigation. The technique consists of 3 main parts which are Simple drop-down navigation based on HTML and CSS, Responsiveness implementation using media queries and Adoption for touch screen devices with the help of a super tiny jQuery plugin.


jQuery.mmenu


mmenu is a jQuery plugin for creating slick, app look-alike sliding menus for you mobile website or responsive website.


Navobile


jQuery Navobile is a jQuery plugin that makes mobile navigation easy. Navobile uses CSS to apply CSS3 translations, Mobile device detection and fixing the position of nav.


FlexNav


FlexNav is a mobile-first example of using media queries and javascript to make a decent multi-level menu with support for touch, hover reveal, and keyboard tab input accessibility.


Responsive Retina-Ready Menu


A responsive, touch-friendly and Retina-ready menu with three layouts for different browser sizes.

The menu automatically changes to one of three different layouts depending on the browser window size: a “desktop” inline version, a two columns tablet-optimized version and a mobile version with a menu link to display and hide the navigation for smaller screens. To make the menu fully retina-ready, use an icon font so that the icons of the menu won’t get pixelized on resize.


slimMenu


slimMenu is a lightweight jQuery plugin, which is made to create responsive and multi-level navigation menus on the fly.With slimMenu, you’ll no longer struggle with media queries to create responsive menus, or any other heavy plugins to create multi-level nested menus. It is 100% mobile responsive.


Horizontal Slide Out Menu


A simple, horizontal slide out menu with a grid-like thumbnail layout for the submenu. The menu slides out from the top when a main menu item is clicked and the sub-items fade in. When clicking on another item, the height of the submenu will adjust and the content will fade in and out while switching.


Feel free to contact me for any help related to jQuery, I will gladly help you.

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