10 Best Responsive Menu Systems In jQuery/JavaScript/CSS (2024 Update)
What is responsive menu?
A responsive menu will automatically transform the regular horizontal site navigation into a responsive, mobile-friendly navigation menu for cross-platform websites and web apps.
Why you should use a responsive menu?
With the popularity of smartphones, more and more users browser website through mobile and tablet devices. And Google announced that Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking.
In order to provide a better user experience, you might need a responsive menu system for your websites or web apps accoss the devices and platforms.
The best responsive menu
In this blog post you will find a list of 10 best Responsive Menu Systems implemented in jQuery, Vanilla JavaScript, or even Pure CSS/CSS3. I hope you like it.
Originally Published Nov 17 2017, updated Feb 01 2024
Table of contents:
jQuery Responsive Menu Plugins:
Cross-platform Multi-level Dropdown Menu - Vegas Nav
A JavaScript-powered cross-platform navigation system to help you create a responsive, mobile-friendly, multi-level dropdown navbar for your web app.
Modern Dropdown Mega Menu In jQuery And CSS3
A responsive, stylish, mobile-friendly mega menu (multi-column dropdown menu) built using JavaScript (jQuery), CSS/CSS3, and nested HTML lists.
Responsive Hamburger Menu With jQuery And TailwindCSS
A jQuery-powered responsive menu that transforms a standard navbar into a fullscreen hamburger toggle menu on small screens.
Mobile-friendly Multi-level Dropdown Navigation With jQuery
A simple yet customizable jQuery plugin for creating a responsive multi-level dropdown menu on your site. It has the ability to automatically convert the horizontal navbar into a mobile-friendly vertical accordion menu on small screens for better readability.
Fully Responsive Navbar with jQuery and CSS3
A jQuery based fully responsive navigation system that uses CSS3 media queries to detect the screen size and transforms the default horizontal navigation bar into a sliding toggle menu on small screens.
Vanilla JS Responsive Menu Libraries:
Responsive Mega Menu In JavaScript
A modern, responsive mega menu template for online stores. Written in Pure JavaScript and CSS/CSS3.
Responsive Multi-level Dropdown Menu For Navbar
A Vanilla JavaScript library that makes it easier to create responsive, mobile-friendly, multi-level dropdown menus for the navbar of your cross-platform web app.
Mobile-friendly Hamburger Navigation With Submenus
A responsive, mobile-friendly, cross-device, multi-level hamburger navigation written in JavaScript and CSS/CSS3.
Responsive Sidebar Navigation with JavaScript and CSS3
A small JavaScript library which helps you create a mobile-friendly, fully responsive and space-saving sidebar navigation for your web projects. On small screens, it will converts the sidebar navigation into an off-canvas menu with a toggle icon when the viewport’s size reaches the breakpoint specified in the CSS3 media queries (default to 992px).
WCAG Compliant Responsive Dropdown Navigation – accessible-menu
An accessible, WCAG compliant, fully responsive, multi-level, and mobile-friendly responsive dropdown navigation menu component written in pure JavaScript.
Bonus: Pure CSS Responsive Menus:
Transform Navbar Into Bottom Navigation
A mobile-friendly navigation system that transforms the site menu into a bottom navigation bar on small screens.
Responsive Pure CSS Dropdown Navigation Menu
A fully responsive, CSS-only navigation that breaks down into a hamburger dropdown menu when the viewport size is smaller than a breakpoint specified in the CSS3 media queries.
Conclusion:
Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Responsive Menus on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Responsive Menu and JavaScript/CSS Responsive Menu sections.
See also:
- Best Responsive Dropdown Menus
- Best Accordion Menu Components
- Best Circle Menu Plugins
- Best Mega Menu Systems
- Best Off-canvas Mobile Menus
- Best Floating Action Button (Popup Menu) Plugins
- Best Fullscreen Navigation Plugins
- Best JavaScript & CSS Responsive Menus
- Best Mobile-friendly Off-canvas Navigation Systems
- Best Vue.js Menu Components To Improve App Navigation Experience
