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Animated Hamburger
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Animated Hamburger

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Pure-CSS hamburger menu using the checkbox hack — three lines morph into an X with no JavaScript.

Navigation & Menus
lines of CSS
33lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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nav-hamburger.css
.fx-hamburger { display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; }
.fx-hamburger input {
  position: absolute;
  opacity: 0;
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
}
.fx-hamburger-lines {
  position: relative;
  width: 36px;
  height: 24px;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: space-between;
}
.fx-hamburger-lines span {
  display: block;
  height: 3px;
  width: 100%;
  background: #f59e0b;
  border-radius: 2px;
  transition: transform 0.3s ease, opacity 0.2s ease;
  transform-origin: center;
}
.fx-hamburger input:checked + .fx-hamburger-lines span:nth-child(1) {
  transform: translateY(10.5px) rotate(45deg);
}
.fx-hamburger input:checked + .fx-hamburger-lines span:nth-child(2) {
  opacity: 0;
}
.fx-hamburger input:checked + .fx-hamburger-lines span:nth-child(3) {
  transform: translateY(-10.5px) rotate(-45deg);
}
nav-hamburger.html
<label class="fx-hamburger">
  <input type="checkbox" />
  <div class="fx-hamburger-lines">
    <span></span>
    <span></span>
    <span></span>
  </div>
</label>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put nav-hamburger.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-hamburger">. 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.
npx hoverlab add nav-hamburger

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

npx hoverlab add nav-hamburger

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License

Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.

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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
Compositor only

Only transform, opacity or filter: the GPU can run it without re-laying-out or repainting the page.

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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Shipping one commercially

Copying the code is free. Putting it in client work or a paid product is what Pro is for — the licence, not the access.

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7 variations of Animated Hamburger

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