10 Best Responsive Menu Systems In jQuery/JavaScript/CSS (2025 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 15 2025
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.
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.
jQuery Plugin for Responsive Menu System - meanMenu
A jQuery plugin that makes your multi-level navigation menus fully responsive and compatible with desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
Mobile-friendly Navigation Plugin With jQuery - Ace Responsive Menu
A lightweight, flexible, cross-browser, multi-level, mobile-friendly jQuery responsive menu plugin for your modern web project. The plugin has the ability to convert the horizontal/vertical/accordion menu into a hamburger toggle menu on small screen devices (e.g. mobile and tablet). It currently supports up to 4 levels of sub menus and allows to show the sub menus on click/hover events.
Responsive Horizontal Nav Menu with jQuery and CSS
A mobile-friendly horizontal navigation menu that automatically clips overflowing menu items and adds them into a dropdown list when not enough space is available.
Vanilla JS Responsive Menu Libraries:
Responsive Sliding Hamburge Menu System
A responsive navigation system that transforms the regular horizontal navbar into a mobile-friendly hamburger menu when visiting on small screens.
Mobile-friendly Hamburger Navigation With Submenus
A responsive, mobile-friendly, cross-device, multi-level hamburger navigation written in 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.
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
