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Section Dots Nav
Navigation & Menus

Section Dots Nav

Full-page style side dots that stretch into a lime bar and brighten their numbered label on hover.

Navigation & Menusdotssectionsfullpagevertical
lines of CSS
31lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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section-dots-nav-15053.css
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 0.6rem;
  font-size: 0.75rem;
  font-family: ui-monospace, monospace;
  letter-spacing: 0.06em;
}
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 a {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.6rem;
  color: #64748b;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: color 0.25s ease;
}
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 i {
  display: block;
  width: 10px;
  height: 10px;
  border-radius: 999px;
  background: #334155;
  transition: width 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1), background 0.25s ease, box-shadow 0.25s ease;
}
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 span { opacity: 0.6; transition: opacity 0.25s ease, transform 0.25s ease; }
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 a.on i, .fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 a:hover i { width: 34px; background: #84cc16; box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(132,204,22,0.55); }
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 a.on, .fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 a:hover { color: #ecfccb; }
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 a.on span, .fx-v12-nav-dots-15052 a:hover span { opacity: 1; transform: translateX(2px); }
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052:hover a.on:not(:hover) i { width: 10px; background: #334155; box-shadow: none; }
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052:hover a.on:not(:hover) { color: #64748b; }
.fx-v12-nav-dots-15052:hover a.on:not(:hover) span { opacity: 0.6; transform: none; }
section-dots-nav-15053.html
<nav class="fx-v12-nav-dots-15052">
  <a href="#" class="on">
    <i></i>
    <span>01 Intro</span>
  </a>
  <a href="#">
    <i></i>
    <span>02 Work</span>
  </a>
  <a href="#">
    <i></i>
    <span>03 About</span>
  </a>
  <a href="#">
    <i></i>
    <span>04 Contact</span>
  </a>
</nav>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put section-dots-nav-15053.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-v12-nav-dots-15052">. 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 section-dots-nav-15053

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 section-dots-nav-15053

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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
Reflows

Animates width (and background, box-shadow, color). The browser re-lays-out the page on every frame; prefer transform if you can.

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)
May shift layout

Animates width on a box in flow, so content beside or after it can move. 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 Section Dots Nav

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