Navigation Bar

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JDunc

I am new at HTML programming and would like to know how to build a Navigation bar on the side of my webpage. I have always worked directly with the HTML tags and want to Know the tag that would create a link to words on the same page. Please help!

jedaisoul

Basically, a nav side bar is just a list of <a> anchors in a <div> separated by <br> line breaks:

<div class="left-bar">
<a href="p1.html">First option</a><br>
<a href="p2.html">Second option</a>
</div>

Some people prefer to embed the anchors in an unordered list (with the bullets suppressed), A fuller example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>example</title>
<style>
body {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#left-bar {
width:120px;
float:left;
}
#body-text {
width:680px;
float:right;
}
.no-marker {
list-style-type:none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="left-bar">
<ul class="no-marker">
<li><a href="p1.html">First option</a></li>
<li><a href="p2.html">Second option</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="body-text">
<p>
Main body text goes here...
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Oh, and to link to an item on the same page, just link to the ID. E.g. Instead of:

href="p1.html"

use:

href="#body-text"

JDunc

thank you so much that helps a lot!

ProSence

jedaisoul;1251685 wrote:
Basically, a nav side bar is just a list of <a> anchors in a <div> separated by <br> line breaks:

<div class="left-bar">
<a href="p1.html">First option</a><br>
<a href="p2.html">Second option</a>
</div>

Some people prefer to embed the anchors in an unordered list (with the bullets suppressed), A fuller example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>example</title>
<style>
body {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#left-bar {
width:120px;
float:left;
}
#body-text {
width:680px;
float:right;
}
.no-marker {
list-style-type:none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="left-bar">
<ul class="no-marker">
<li><a href="p1.html">First option</a></li>
<li><a href="p2.html">Second option</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="body-text">
<p>
Main body text goes here...
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Oh, and to link to an item on the same page, just link to the ID. E.g. Instead of:

href="p1.html"

use:

href="#body-text"

Great, thanks!

Strider64

I know this has been already been answered, but here's how I was taught in one of my college class a while back on navigation.

<div id="nav">
     <ul>
           <li><a href="content.php">Edit CMS Content</a></li>
           <li><a href="picture.php">Edit Picture(s)</a></li>
           <li><a href="new_user.php">Add New User</a></li>              

           <li><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></li>
     </ul>
</div>

Here's my css styling for the navigation menu that I put in a separate file:
<link href="stylesheets/public.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

#nav {
	float: left;
	width: 300px;
	height: 230px;
	-moz-border-radius: 15px;
	border-radius: 15px;
	background-color: rgb(156, 233, 194);
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;	
}

#nav ul {
	list-style: none;
	list-style-position: outside;
	list-style-image: none;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;	
}

#nav ul li {
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 10px 0px 0px 24px;	
}

#nav ul li a {
	float: left;
	display: block;
	width: 240px;
	height: 50px;
	background-color: rgb(8, 147, 202);
	border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size: 1.4em;
		line-height: 50px;
		color: #041036;
		font-weight: bold;
		text-decoration: none;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
	margin: 0px;		
}

#nav ul li a:hover {
	color: #fff;
	background-color: rgb(169, 24, 53);	
}

I think of it as staircase that is going a person is going down, by this I mean the following:

nav
nav ul
nav ul li
nav ul li a
nav ul li a:hover