How can you create a vertical navbar with drop down menus?

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Do this:

.navbar li ul
{
    display: none; /* Hides the drop-down menu */   
    margin-left: 150px;
    margin-top: -50px;
    float:left;
    height: 0;
}

Here's the jsFiddle demo: http://jsfiddle.net/leniel/ZYUeX/3/

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Updated on February 03, 2020

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  • Mark Smith
    Mark Smith about 4 years

    I have a vertical navbar. Now, this navbar is supposed to have drop down menus. The only problem for me is, I am unable to make it so that the drop down menus are to the side of the menu. I have the HTML and CSS code on jsFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/maxkoenig/ZYUeX/ Here it is if you don't want to go on the website: HTML:

    <div id="wrap">
              <ul class="navbar">
                 <li><a href="/index.php">Home</a></li>
                 <li><a href="/boattypes/featureboats.php">Boat Types</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="/boattypes/sprint/sprint.php">Sprint</a></li>
                       <li><a href="/boattypes/fitnesstouring/fitnesstouring.php">Fitness-touring</a></li>
                       <li><a href="/boattypes/marathon/marathon.php">High Performance</a></li>
                        <li><a href="/boattypes/surfski/surfskis.php">Surf Skis</a></li>
                    </ul>         
                 </li>
                 <li><a href="/rent/services.php">Inventory</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="/rent/memb.php">Membership</a></li>
                       <li><a href="/rent/rboat.php" >Rentals</a></li>
                        <li><a href="/rent/rb.php">Banquet</a></li>
                        <li><a href="/rent/faq.php">FAQ</a></li>
    
                    </ul>         
                 </li>
                 <li><a href="/ages/ages.php">Ages</a>
                    <ul>
                       <li><a href="/ages/adult.php">Adults</a></li>
                        <li><a href="/ages/children.php">Children</a></li>
    
                    </ul>         
                 </li>
                 <li><a href="about.php">About Us</a>
                     <li><a href="contact_us.php">Contact Us</a>
                    </ul>
           </div>
    

    CSS:

    #wrap {
        width: 150px; 
        height: 50px; 
        padding-bottom: 10px;
        margin: 0; /* Ensures there is no space between sides of the screen and the menu */
        z-index: 1; /* Makes sure that your menu remains on top of other page elements */
        position: fixed;
        background-color: RoyalBlue;
    
        }
    .navbar {
        height: 50px;
        padding: 0;
        padding-bottom: 10px;
        margin: 0;
        position: fixed; /* Ensures that the menu doesn’t affect other elements */
        border-right: 1px solid #54879d; 
        z-index: 12;
        }
    .navbar li  {
                padding-bottom: 10px;
                height: auto;
                width: 150px;  /* Each menu item is 150px wide */
                /*float: left;   This lines up the menu items horizontally */
                object-position: top;
                text-align: center;  /* All text is placed in the center of the box */
                list-style: none;  /* Removes the default styling (bullets) for the list */
                font: normal bold 12px/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;  
                padding: 0;
                margin: 0;
                background-color: RoyalBlue;
                            }
    .navbar a   {                           
            padding: 18px 0;  /* Adds a padding on the top and bottom so the text appears centered vertically */
            border-left: 1px solid #0026ff; /* Creates a border in a slightly lighter shade of blue than the background.  Combined with the right border, this creates a nice effect. */
            border-right: 1px solid #0026ff; /* Creates a border in a slightly darker shade of blue than the background.  Combined with the left border, this creates a nice effect. */
            text-decoration: none;  /* Removes the default hyperlink styling. */
            color: #000; /* Text color is black */
            display: block;
            }
    
    .navbar li:hover, a:hover {
        background-color: rgba(4, 6, 0, 0.00);
    }
    
    .navbar li ul   {
            display: none;  /* Hides the drop-down menu */
            height: auto;                                   
            margin: 0; /* Aligns drop-down box underneath the menu item */
            padding: 0; /* Aligns drop-down box underneath the menu item */         
            }               
    
    .navbar li:hover ul     {
                            display: block; /* Displays the drop-down box when the menu item is hovered over */
                            z-index: 12;
                            padding-left: 1px;
    
                            }
    
    .navbar li ul li {
        background-color: #2ba6ff;
    }
    
    .navbar li ul li a  {
            border-left: 1px solid #0026ff;
            border-right: 1px solid #0026ff;
            border-top: 1px solid #0026ff;
            z-index: 1001;
            }
    
    .navbar li ul li a:hover {
        background-color: #0094ff;
        z-index: 1000;
    }