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Hover Dropdown Menu
Navigation & Menus

Hover Dropdown Menu

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A native <details>-based dropdown that animates open, with arrow rotation and hover-highlighted menu items.

Navigation & Menus
lines of CSS
54lines of CSS
dependencies
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browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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nav-dropdown.css
.fx-dropdown {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
}
.fx-dropdown-summary {
  list-style: none;
  cursor: pointer;
  padding: 0.55rem 1.1rem;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background: #1e293b;
  color: #f1f5f9;
  font-size: 0.9rem;
  font-weight: 500;
  display: inline-flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.5rem;
}
.fx-dropdown-summary::-webkit-details-marker { display: none; }
.fx-dropdown-summary::after {
  content: '▾';
  font-size: 0.75rem;
  transition: transform 0.25s ease;
}
.fx-dropdown[open] .fx-dropdown-summary::after { transform: rotate(180deg); }
.fx-dropdown-menu {
  position: absolute;
  top: calc(100% + 6px);
  left: 0;
  min-width: 160px;
  padding: 0.35rem;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background: #0f172a;
  box-shadow: 0 12px 30px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35);
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0;
  animation: fx-dropdown-in 0.2s ease;
}
@keyframes fx-dropdown-in {
  from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(-4px); }
  to   { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); }
}
.fx-dropdown-menu li a {
  display: block;
  padding: 0.45rem 0.7rem;
  border-radius: 0.375rem;
  color: #cbd5e1;
  font-size: 0.85rem;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background 0.15s ease, color 0.15s ease;
}
.fx-dropdown-menu li a:hover {
  background: rgba(99, 102, 241, 0.18);
  color: #fff;
}
nav-dropdown.html
<details class="fx-dropdown">
  <summary class="fx-dropdown-summary">Account</summary>
  <ul class="fx-dropdown-menu">
    <li>
      <a href="#">Profile</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#">Settings</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#">Sign out</a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</details>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put nav-dropdown.css anywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that is app/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a <link> in your HTML.
  2. Then put the class on the element you want it on: <button class="fx-dropdown">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
  • Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
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What's included

  • The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

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License

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Motion safety

Static estimate, read from the CSS

Reduced motion
Brief motion, no guard

Animates briefly or on interaction. Only looping motion gets a guard in this catalog; copy the one from the Insights tab if this ships on a critical path.

What it animates
Repaints

Animates background, color. No reflow, but the browser repaints every frame, which is fine for one element and costly across many.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
No flashing found

No repeating change in opacity, colour or brightness large enough to count as a flash.

Layout shift (CLS)
No shift expected

Nothing it animates moves or resizes the box in flow. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.

Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed

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7 variations of Hover Dropdown Menu

Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.