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Creating a simple horizontal navigation bar

Creating a simple horizontal navigation bar

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Hi there, In this blog, we are going to create a simple horizontal navigation bar using simple easy steps.
So let's begin.

Step 1:Create an unordered list.

Firstly we have to create an unordered list of items that we have to display in our bar as follows.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<div class="topnav">
  <a class="active" href="#home">Home</a>
  <a href="#news">News</a>
  <a href="#contact">Contact</a>
  <a href="#about">About</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Note: We have used href="#" for test links. In a real website, this would be URLs.

Step 1:Add CSS

body {
  margin: 0;
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

.topnav {
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: green;
}

.topnav a {
  float: left;
  color: #f2f2f2;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 14px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-size: 17px;
}

.topnav a:hover {
  background-color:#83d383;
  color: black;
}

.topnav a.active {
  background-color: #04AA6D;
  color: white;
}

It looks like this:

HTMLCSSUInavigation bar