Pure CSS Vertical Icon Menu With Hover Effect

In this tutorial we're going to create a simple vertical menu with hover tradition effect, using icon font created by IcoMoon and Matthew Skiles.

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1. Markup Html structure:

<ul class="cbp-vimenu">
<li><a href="#" class="icon-logo">Logo</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="icon-archive">Archive</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="icon-search">Search</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="icon-pencil">Pencil</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="icon-location">Location</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="icon-images">Images</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="icon-download">Download</a></li>
</ul>

2. The CSS

@font-face {
	font-family: 'ecoico';
	src:url('../fonts/ecoico.eot');
	src:url('../fonts/ecoico.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
		url('../fonts/ecoico.woff') format('woff'),
		url('../fonts/ecoico.ttf') format('truetype'),
		url('../fonts/ecoico.svg#ecoico') format('svg');
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
}

.cbp-vimenu {
	position: fixed;
	overflow: hidden;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	height: 100%;
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background: #f7f7f7;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a {
	display: block;
	text-indent: -500em;
	height: 5em;
	width: 5em;
	line-height: 5em;
	text-align: center;
	color: #999;
	position: relative;
	border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
	-webkit-transition: background 0.1s ease-in-out;
	-moz-transition: background 0.1s ease-in-out;
	transition: background 0.1s ease-in-out;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a:hover,
.cbp-vimenu li:first-child a{
	background: #47a3da;
	color: #fff;
}

/* class for current item */
.cbp-vimenu li.cbp-vicurrent a {
	background: #fff;
	color: #47a3da;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a:before {
	font-family: 'ecoico';
	speak: none;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-indent: 0em;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	font-size: 1.4em;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

.cbp-vimenu li a.icon-logo:before {
	content: "C";
	font-weight: 700;
	font-size: 300%;
	font-family: 'Lato', Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;
}

.icon-search:before {
	content: "\e004";
}

.icon-archive:before {
	content: "\e005";
}

.icon-download:before {
	content: "\e006";
}

.icon-location:before {
	content: "\e007";
}

.icon-images:before {
	content: "\e009";
}

.icon-pencil:before {
	content: "\e008";
}

/* Example for media query (depends on total height of menu) */
@media screen and (max-height: 34.9375em) { 

	.cbp-vimenu {
		font-size: 70%;
	}

}

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