40+ Best Free jQuery Navigation Menus

If you’re web developer then you must know that a professional and responsive web design keep users active on a site and if you’ve responsive and user friendly menu then users can easily navigate your site and browse their desired content easily. Jquery makes web development much easier, you can easily make changes to Jquery menus and set them according to your site needs and design. These menus are not just simple menus, where you can place your links with ordinary text but as we already said that these are JQuery menus so you don’t need to worry about their great functionality.

Jquery comes with a lot of functionalities and help you to make web pages more attractive. There is no matter that you’re going to design a specific website, web page or navigation, Jquery always comes handy and provides you some advanced features to work easily. You can browse the collection of Top 40 Best Free Jquery Navigation Menus and pick one of them that suit on your site or if you’re web developer then just take an idea from these menus and then comes with your own ideas and make Jquery navigation for your own website.

Touch-enabled Sliding Navigation Menu

A jQuery/CSS3 based animated side navigation that slides down a menu board when activated, with backing for float and touch occasions.

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Sticky Navigation Menu

Sticky navigation has capacity to make interior connections look over the areas too by including the class ‘intLink’. On the off chance that you have joins in your primary menubar that you need to connection to an outer site, simply include the class ‘extLink’.

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Smart Menus

The SmartMenus jQuery plugin is open-source software licensed under the MIT license(just like jQuery) and as such is available for free for all kinds of use.

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Smart Fixed Navigation Menu

A fixed navigation that allows your users to access the jQuery Navigation Menus at any time while they are experiencing your website. It’s smaller than a full-width fixed header, and replaces the back-to-top button with a smarter UX solution.

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Slinky Navigation

Create beautiful scrolling driven navigation lists with stacking headers that remain visible at all times. Scroll around on the plugin homepage to see it in action.

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Slide In Panel Navigation

A CSS3 and jQuery powered slide-in panel, to quickly show side content, notifications or profile information.

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Slidemenu Navigation

A jquery menu plugin for side menus that have fun slide interactions Slidemenu is a jquery menu plugin for side menus with fun slide interactions.

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Sliding Drawer Menu with Lightbox Effect

One popular navigation trend is the hidden sliding jQuery Navigation Menus for large and small screen displays. Some may call this a hamburger menu, side-toggle menu, sliding drawer menu, or anything similar – but they all describe the same interface.

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Slidebars jQuery Navigation Menus

Slidebars is a jQuery plugin for quickly and easily implementing app style off-canvas menus and sidebars into your website.

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mmenu Navigation

The best jQuery plugin for app look-alike on- and off-canvas menus with sliding submenus for your website and webapp.

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Slicknav Menu

You can setup slicknav Without any additional configuration, both the original and mobile jQuery Navigation Menus will be displayed. It is recommended to use media queries to hide the original menu and display the mobile menu when appropriate

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Simple Vertical Menu with jQuery

I`m going to show you how to create a simple jQuery Navigation Menus, but very stylish vertical menu using some CSS3, a bit of jQuery, a custom text font and the most impressive icon font you can find at this moment, which is FontAwesome.

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Rounded Animated Navigation Menu

An experimental full-screen navigation, animated using CSS and jQuery, that expands within a circle.

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Secondary Fixed Navigation

A secondary navigation intended for users who want a quick overview of the page content, and be able to easily move from one section of the page to the other.

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Shopping Cart Menu with CSS3

For every modern eCommerce website the shopping cart is a crucial feature. Most of the time visitors will have to click a link or button to view all the items in their cart. This is a much cleaner solution because everything can be listed on the page without sacrificing extra information.

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Sidr jQuery Navigation Menus

You will be able to create multiple sidrs on both sides of your web to make responsives menus (or not, it works perfectly on desktop too.

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Retina-Ready Responsive Menu

Retina-ready and responsive menu inspired by the colors of the Maliwan manufacturer of the Borderlands game. The jQuery Navigation Menus automatically changes to one of three different layouts depending on the browser window size: a “desktop” inline version, a two columns tablet-optimized version and a mobile version with a menu link to display and hide the navigation for smaller screens.

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Multi-Level Menu

Today we want to share an experimental drop-down jQuery Navigation Menus with you. The main idea is to save space for menus that have a lot of content and sub-levels. Each sub-level in this menu will be shown in its own context, making the “parent” level disappear.

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Drop Down Responsive Menu

In this tutorial, we’ll create a beautiful drop drown responsive jQuery Navigation Menus with new feature of css3 (media queries) and jQuery library to enhance the design and layout of a website navigation menu to fit different screen sizes. We have design to change the layout from big computer screens to smaller screens mobile support, to make it responsive display.

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Creating 3-Level Drop Down Navigation

Beautiful 3-Level Responsive Drop Down Navigation Menu with jQuery CSS3 where sub-menu will either appear above or below the main menu with narrow symbol. With my previous tutorial, i also show how to create drop down responsive menu with CSS3 and jQuery as well.

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jQuery Pop Menu

simple responsive popup menu, it’s a jQuery plugin that comes with awesome look.

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Full-Screen Pop-Out Navigation Menu

Here is a fixed menu that drives users’ attention to a couple of call-to-action buttons first, then let them explore the full-screen navigation.

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Full-Screen Pushing Navigation

One thing that captured our interest was the full size jQuery Navigation Menus: it replaces the current content entirely, by pushing it out. That inspired us to create todays nugget.

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Pushy jQuery Navigation Menus

Pushy is a responsive off-canvas navigation menu using CSS transforms & transitions.

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Perspective jQuery Navigation Menus

Some effects for a perspective page view jQuery Navigation Menus where the page itself gets pushed away in 3D to reveal a menu or other items. This navigation idea is seen in mobile app design and we wanted to explore some more effects.

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OpenFooter jQuery Navigation Menus

OpenFooter jQuery is a small script that is used to create the unique responsive footer with power features. With this plugin you can make a footer with many kinds of content (Text, images/photos, videos/iframes…) and you can add content as much as you want. Additionally, this plugin also allow you expand the footer to fullscreen for easier view.

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Off-Canvas jQuery Navigation Menus

we’d like to share a couple of styles and effects for off-canvas menus. The off-canvas sidebar is widely used and we have already created some effect inspiration before. Like with everything, style evolves and today we want to show a new set of modern effects for your inspiration.

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Multi-level Push Menu

Multi-level push menu is cross-browser compatible jQuery plug-in allowing endless nesting of navigation elements.

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Menu Aim jQuery Navigation Menus

jQuery plugin to fire events when user’s cursor aims at particular dropdown menu items. For making responsive mega dropdowns like Amazon’s.

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MenuItems jQuery Navigation Menus

Dynamic jQuery menu plugin that lets you create beautiful and responsive navigation widgets.

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Menu Transition In Effects

This one here is something I thought of after seeing the surge in popularity with push in side jQuery Navigation Menus. I’ve seen a couple websites use menu transition to animate the menu items as they appear.

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Multi-Level Push Menu

An experimental push menu with multi-level functionality that allows endless nesting of navigation elements.

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Mega-Site jQuery Navigation Menus

A responsive and easy to customize navigation for mega-sites, enriched by subtle CSS animations and support for devices with javascript disabled.

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Horizontal Navigation

HorizontalNav is a jQuery plugin that spans a horizontal navigation to fit the full width of it’s container. If you’ve ever had to create this effect on a project, you’ll know it’s pretty annoying to do. But this plugin makes it easy and adds support for IE7.

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Creative CSS3 Animation Menus

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Fixed Navigation Transition

This jquery menu example comes with 2 different demos. One is flip & second is arrows. After scrolling down the menu will comes up in the header section & will be fixed there.

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Flaunt jQuery Navigation Menus

Flaunt.js is a jQuery script that allows you to create a responsive, nested navigation out the box. Flaunt was built to overcome responsive design challenges which faced a huge percentage of websites. This challenge was to show nested navigation items on click-demand, without the event taking you through to the page you’ve pressed…

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Flex jQuery Navigation Menus

FlexNav is a mobile-first example of using media queries and javascript to make a decent multi-level menu with support for touch, hover reveal, and keyboard tab input accessibility. Special attention is paid to touch screens using tap targets (the key feature of FlexNav.

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jQuery Icon Font Dropdown Menu

This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a jQuery-powered icon picker input field. The library is called fontIconPicker which is free and open source to use in any number of projects. It’s a great choice because all the fonts are completely free and you don’t even need to worry about rendering issues.

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Animated Slideout Navigation Menu

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Animated Text and Icon Menu

we want to show you how to create a slick menu with a nice animation feature on hover. The idea is to make some elements slide out, change and animate the background color of the item and then slide the elements back in with a different color.

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Animated Content Menu

we will create a slick animated jQuery Navigation Menus content with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The menu items will be animated and when clicked, a content area with more information will appear. Also, he background image is going to change according to which menu item was clicked.

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3D Rotating jQuery Navigation Menus

Design agencies, for example, use their portfolio to show off their skills and push a little usability standards. Another good example is mobile apps: animated elements are key ingredients of the user experience. In this case a 3D menu can’t just be fun. It has to be efficient.

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