10 Best Responsive Dropdown Menus In JavaScript & CSS (2023 Update)
If you are running a large cross-platform site and have a lot of content, then you might need a responsive multi-level dropdown menu to organize and display categories and featured content/products on both desktop and mobile.
In this article you will browse through the top 10 responsive, mobile-friendly, and multi-level dropdown menus built with jQuery and/or pure JavaScript/CSS. I hope you like it.
Originally Published May 10, 2019, updated Feb 07 2023
Table of contents:
jQuery Dropdown Menu Plugins:
Amazon Like Drop Down Menu Plugin with jQuery - Menu Aim
jQuery plugin to fire events when user's cursor aims at particular dropdown menu items. For making responsive mega dropdowns like Amazon's.
Responsive and Touch-Friendly jQuery Menu Plugin - Flexnav
A responsive, Touch-Friendly and cross-browser jQuery drop down menu plugin that has support for unlimited sub-menus and works nice in both desktop and mobile layouts.
Responsive and Cross-platform jQuery Navigation Menu Plugin - Smart Menus
A jQuery Navigation Menu plugin for creating responsive and cross-platform multi-level dropdown menus for your site navigation. It comes with a lot of options for customizing your menus and supports all devices such as desktop, tablet, mobile, etc. Please resize the demo page to see how it works on mobile devices.
Responsive & Nested jQuery Navigation Menu Plugin - slimMenu
A pretty and mobile-friendly jQuery plugin for creating responsive and nested multi-level drop down menus with smooth drop down animations and some useful options for your navigation.
Mobile-friendly Multi-level Dropdown Menu Plugin - jQuery Stellarnav
An elegant, responsive, mobile-friendly dropdown menu plugin for jQuery that supports infinite levels of sub menus and auto switches to a small screen friendly toggle menu when the window width reaches a specified breakpoint.
Vanilla JS Dropdown Menu Libraries:
Responsive Multi-level Sidebar Menu With JavaScript/CSS
A responsive sidebar menu with multi-level sub-menus written in plain JavaScript and CSS.
17+ Responsive Accessible Header Navbar Templates
A set of 17+ accessible, fully responsive, and mobile-friendly header navbar templates for modern web app design.
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.
Pure CSS Dropdown Menu Plugins:
CSS Only Responsive Dropdown Menu – JMenu
A pure CSS responsive menu which automatically collapses the regular drop-down navbar into a mobile-friendly sliding menu with or without the toggle button.
Multi-level Toggle Responsive Navigation Menu using Pure CSS
A pure CSS mobile-friendly navigation that automatically transform your horizontal navigation into a toggleable vertical accordion menu on smaller screen devices, with support for unlimited sub menu items.
Conclusion:
Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome dropdown menus on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Dropdown Menu and JS/CSS Dropdown Menu sections.
See also:
- Best Responsive Menu jQuery Plugins
- Best Off-canvas Mobile Menus
- Best Accordion Menu Components
- Best Circle Menu Plugins
- Best Mega Menu Systems
- Best Floating Action Button (Popup Menu) Plugins
- Best Fullscreen Navigation Plugins
- Best Floating Action Button (Popup Menu) Plugins
- Best JavaScript & CSS Responsive Menus
- Best Mobile-friendly Off-canvas Navigation Systems
- Best Vue.js Menu Components To Improve App Navigation Experience
