Imagine entering a website, seeing a regular dropdown, and close the browser with anger. :D

@luukbrugge

2 жыл бұрын

Turn customers away LOL

@dancarter6044

2 жыл бұрын

I really can't imagine that.

@IdleAtre

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was a pretty weird intro.

@NoelLeeman

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see the evidence. Citation needed ;)

@simosenpai2685

2 жыл бұрын

Haha. Nice

Great tutorial Kyle! I was doing something very similar with a "slide in" menu, but was using click events on the menu buttons. I love the use of data attributes and the event listener! I was doing something "creative" to call the correct menu to "slide" based on IDs etc... This is much cleaner and I will be moving my design to use data attributes and a simple event listener to production! Thanks Kyle!!!

13:30 max-content does not mean that things will "be as wide as they possibly can be". Max-content will make it as large as it needs to contain the content without wrapping.

This tutorial was super useful to me as I was trying to make these dropdowns close when clicked outside, the thing is every time I would click on the content of the dropdown it would close, so my workaround was getting the ID of every element inside the dropdown div and setting it to not close when clicked, of course I knew this wasn't ideal but couldn't make it work otherwise, thank you for this video!

I modified your code a bit and can place the content anywhere on the page to perform the desired animation (not just under the "dropdown"). In my case I am sliding a menu from the left to the right in a container located below my header/menu... very cool! Looks fantastic on mobile devices! Super user friendly! Thanks Kyle!

@tate2697

2 жыл бұрын

that’s actually exactly why I clicked on it lol

@mlungisisidu7653

Жыл бұрын

I'd Love to see ya code

The best dropdown is a simple dropdown. You don't need anything more than that, if you care about user accessibility.

@minglee5249

2 жыл бұрын

Also if javascript is disabled for any reason then this dropdown solution will not work

@sicfxmusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@minglee5249 Ahh yes those damn IE6 users 😂

@voidemon490

2 жыл бұрын

yeah doesnt support terminal based browsers. disliked...

@baczek40

2 жыл бұрын

totally agree

@astrotecn

2 жыл бұрын

@@sicfxmusic why supporting such a old ass fucking browser is still a must is beyond me who the fuck uses this shit

What a good tutorial! Well done, Kyle!

You have some of the best front-end content I've seen yet, thank you!

Hey Kyle, thanks for your awesome video. Here's my sole remark: - Use semantically correct HTML tags wherever possible. E.g. use and instead of s everywhere.

@pdsnpsnldlqnop3330

2 жыл бұрын

And no css variables. Also using pixels.

@CyberTechBits

2 жыл бұрын

My $0.02.. I like that he uses divs doesn't bother me at all and makes perfect sense since you can use this anywhere... say a slide in forms in a different container.

@akzual50

2 жыл бұрын

Or use code to generate your elements like a sane individual.

@fayth7199

2 жыл бұрын

Im starting up Web dev, sorry if this sounds dumb, but why is this important?

@harmonicresonanceproject

2 жыл бұрын

@@fayth7199 Because properly formatted web pages are what search robots need to index the site. Look into the changes that Google have made recently in terms of web page structure and indexing eg. It's very much related to correct html structure and useage at the core. A podcast I recommend is 'HTML All The Things Podcast'.

Thank you for these tutorials. They are really helpful and you're doing a wonderful job.🙂

That was really helpful, thank you for all your work! :)

Thank you so much! I love your videos and I'm always checking my YT notifications to see if you uploaded a new vid!

The accessibility of this solution is horrendous.

@iquahs

2 жыл бұрын

I was losing track at around 4 minutes in with that many selector combinators lol

@tomasz9429

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta flex on them plebs ;)

You are amazing. AS usual. Very helpful, clear and in time.. Good work. Appreciate.

You are really a life saviour for many candid like me... You are really a pure soul....Thanks a lot ❤️... pls do more tasks like these...

I can't express how thankful I am to you Kyle.

I felt like I had a pretty good grip on CSS and rudimentary JS for DOM manipulation but man do I learn a ton from these videos. Using data selectors, target in JS, handling CSS -- you're very talented with this stuff, and I very much appreciate it because I'm here to learn and I definitely am doing just that.

@ayazaslam1362

2 жыл бұрын

u dont learn u get brainwash so u watch his videos more. at 3:10 no need to use calc but he will so people get curious. i give u one more example he will make videos and talk fast so people watch again and again. in short he f**k smartly with your brain. i hate him now more than ever. unsubscribe. why he dont make videos with normal talking speed and eassy examples so we dont go to google and calculate rem to px and in multiply etc. In short smart business man bad or shall i say worst teacher. unsubscribe. hope u understand my point.

@nate1988

2 жыл бұрын

​@@ayazaslam1362 I understand how you feel (if I read that correctly), but part of my self-teaching journey is not buying any products and not paying any tuition. I've been doing fine thus far and while I appreciate this guy, I am not spending money on courses. That doesn't exclude donating to a good creator (like WDS) though. If concepts seem scattered and/or fast, that's fine for me. The trick to teaching myself is knowing how to piece myriad resources together. This channel is but one resource of many.

@ayazaslam1362

2 жыл бұрын

@@nate1988 I am also doing self study . Covid = lost job lol. I get furistate by these things. I feel u self study is hard specially when u r doing practice and do silly mistake. Good luck if need self study partner I am available 24/7 now a days. I know little bit html css Js and php.

@nate1988

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayazaslam1362 Early 30s here and in a similar situation to you. Its a tough time right now, I feel that. I just try to focus on the positive of things, like the videos here for free, because it's easy to get lost in negativity in this world. Best of luck to you in your studies 👍

@watwoot9020

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayazaslam1362 lol, salty much. maybe you should try learn some more fundamentals, if you can't follow the code. Also, you can play the video at lower speeds. I really don't get why you are so mad about it, its free anyway and very decent code =/

Superb! Thank you very much. Beyond the big picture presented, there are so many cool little nuggets to glean here.

I have a suggetion , You could added index-tab to the dropdown div (the div will have ability to focus and blur ) , then use somthing like this .dropdown:focus > dropdown-menu {...}.

Thank you very much!!! Always learning something new from you!

Thanks, KZread for recommending this video. This is exactly what I want now.

You're awesome! Thank you for sharing your knowledge :)

You could remove js by using :focus-within selector.

absolutely awesome tutorial sir!

Great video! Nice voice and pace, pleasant to follow! Thank you very much!

Switching this over to a react component has been fun.

Love what you do on KZread...nice videos. Is it possible to make a video to show how make this dropdown menu responsive?

@doctorartiste2905

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, plese. Great videos and presentations. TY!!!

Thank you so much for creating this video, through explanations which I appreciated and was able to customize it to my website!

Just the tut I was searching for thanks 🙏

it’s nice .. welcome back 😍

Hey!! Thanks for this and for the Cheat Sheet it was Awesome!!! 😍

How about a pure CSS solution: use nested s & s while leveraging pseudoclass :focus-within, :focus, and :hover. Focus Within should do the heavy lifting, but you may want the Hovers, and also .sibling:pseudo ~ .sibling-or-child, depending on how you want to put it together. If this doesn't makes sense to you, good. Go explore. It's 2021. You don't need JavaScript (which is great) to make amazing, solid, scalable dropdown menus, megamenus, popovers, etc.

@rafalpotasz

2 жыл бұрын

Very sensible advice imo. I do think that if JS isn't needed, it shouldn't be used and there is a plethora of solutions waiting to be explored.

@theosdinoysios4350

2 жыл бұрын

Avoid JS as much as you can.

@mitetoOoOoO

2 жыл бұрын

When he said he needed JS to "unfocus" the buttons, I immediately thought of checkboxes, because they can be easily unchecked, so I gave it a try. I made the exact same menu and it worked. However when I hit the Tab key on my keyboard it goes through my sub-links even if the box is not checked. What did I do wrong?

@davivify

2 жыл бұрын

Hey OnePieceWonPeace, I'd say if you figured out how to do it we'd love to see an example.

@cobra02411

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe I'm lacking in my CSS kung fu but how do you handle toggling an attribute? You need aria-expanded to convey the state of the control to a screen reader to be accessible. So aria-expanded needs to be toggled between true / false and the only way I know how to do that is with JS. Also, you have to be careful with pseudo elements because screen readers only read what's in the DOM. I'd have to see an example but I'd be very concerned about the accessibility of it.

Love your tutorials man😍😍😍 Can you please tell the name of the video editor and screen recorder you are using🙏🙏🙏

Very good video. I will use this way t build navigation in the future.

Just read the article on using data attributes instead of classes and it's gold. It's my new method.

Great lesson!

This is awesome thank you for sharing👍👍👍👍

Thank you! You are very talented!

Love the video. If you have a transition on opacity but not on the pointer-events, will the non-transitioned properties change at the end of the transition or at the beginning? (I'm guessing effectively at the beginning, since it'll respond immediately to the new ':focus' status?)

@MrMudbill

2 жыл бұрын

The pointer events will enable as the animation begins when opening. They will disable when it animates out. So if you're quick, you can click something within it just before it opens, but you can't when it closes.

Thank you for this tutorial!

Did you know that you can copy and paste the text directly from the video? It's built into Safari. Just pause the video, select the text you want with your mouse, and copy and paste. Other browsers might support it as well. If not, there are plug-ins available. I discovered this by accident.

You're superhuman. Anyone who wants to make petty criticisms is jealous. Thanks for your videos.

Awesome 🤩

Thanks, now I know a better way to dismiss dropdown properly.

Btw you are awesome brother ❤️

The method outlined here is visually appealing and the code (having finally figured it out with slight modification to my CSS) is a keeper. However, using the tab key to navigate through the menu items one has to cycle through the contents of the drop down menus and this stems by toggling opacity as opposed to display. Even though it looks great the downside is folks that are visually impaired shouldn't have to go through this mundane process. It's one thing to disregard Internet Explorer when selecting your target audience but quite another not to take the visually handicapped into consideration. Please cater to them by using Wai-Aria. Thankyou for this block of code.

@williamlindsayiii824

2 жыл бұрын

Do u think there is away too make this type of menu accessible for all? Good analysis

@colindante5164

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamlindsayiii824 To answer your question directly use aria-expanded when creating drop down menus. There's quite a bit to learn using Wai-Aria. But why stop there; if we are using accessibility in the navigation bar we should implement it throughout our HTML document. Try and refrain from using div's and use schematic tags like nav, article, aside, section, figure, figcaption and obviously the h1 through h6 tags. Use the 'Outline Algorithm' to reflect as how you intended your page to be displayed (Notice how I phrased this sentence). Use hgroup to hide tags so they don't show up in the Outliner Algorithm Tool. This is used by screen readers and web crawlers to interpret your content. With respect to SEO, it's the content that gets ranked so take advantage of 'google search console'. I hope this helps and sheds some light on where you need to focus on learning these technologies.

@photofrode

2 жыл бұрын

Add visibility: hidden; to actually hide the content (supports transitions), add aria-expanded for context and set .focus() when opening.

@Dev-zr8si

Жыл бұрын

@@colindante5164 This is a video about dropdown menus, not accessibility. You people love shoving BUT THATS NOT ACCESSIBLE everywhere as if that makes you a better person than everyone else.

@colindante5164

Жыл бұрын

@@Dev-zr8si you have issues and fortunately I'm not a shrink so I don't have to deal with them.))

will have to try this

Thank you for all of your videos. I’m not sure if you’ll get this reference, but you’re the ChrisFix of making websites

@WebDevSimplified

2 жыл бұрын

Now that is a massive honor. I love ChrisFix

Thank you for helping me.

You are always great...

thanks man! you are amazing

wow, you taught me a way to toggle active class of a group of items "click item 1 to toggle active class, and remove active class from other items in the group"

thank you Kyle!

What do you think about focus-within? We can use that to achieve same via css only.

Thank you bro!

Well, the first example looks clearer to me.

Dev you are good at Java- impressed- very

I gotta say the cheatsheet is very helpful. I’m going back to web dev after a break and that cheatsheet is definitely speeding things up.

I try to use focus-within to replace the javascript. But we must click on it to appear the pulldown/drop down. And using left, right, top, bottom; I try to control the direction of the dropdown. It's may be : drop down to left, drop down to right, drop up to left, drop up to right.

Amazing as always. Wish Kyle can do a crash course on the arcgis javascript api

You are talented in delivering the information. May Allah guide to way of truth brother. You are a treasure.

@Nobodylihshdheuhdhd

9 ай бұрын

🤡

wow. that great. now please save me time i just download.with thanks.

Boss, You are awesome

Thank you so much

For my dropdowns I've been using the 'details' and 'summary' tag with a z-index of 1000 on the 'on' state. You might look into that, save you a ton of JS code.

@RodrigoMendoza7

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that be more suitable for information-revealing purposes than navigation menus?

@woofiewill

2 жыл бұрын

Might work for you, but is likely very non-accessible.

@stelatasheva4993

2 жыл бұрын

not very accessibility friendly, since it's purpose is deferent. Better be wrapped in if you do this for some reason...

You are rock :)

What about your guitar? Maybe some simplified Zappa riffs in a follow-up video? Even though it‘s no SG 🙂

Nice rundown! One little loose end though; if your screen width was any smaller that Login dropdown would overflow off the right side of the screen wouldn't it? How do you ensure the dropdown gets pushed in that case to the left to accommodate for that?

@Johan.A02s

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm... I think, "float" Left & Right is the better answer for this question, without using "max-width" 😅

Very impressive. Good job!

Just when I think I have my css and html down I get taken to school Damm IT lol. Thank you bro you rock!!!

Feel good to be in first 10 comments awesome video

Hi, what is the advantage of using javascript over building the dropdown with pure css?

@OnePieceWonPeace

2 жыл бұрын

None! Other than potentially using the CPU instead of the GPU, if that's actually what you want.

would love to see you making it responsive.

@watwoot9020

2 жыл бұрын

it basicly is responsive, you just need to copy paste the dropdown, change the absolute position and hide/show at certain viewports. That said, thanks for the video :)

This is gem. There is not that much advanced tutorials on plain html / css drop down menus. What they usually do is simply copy-paste Bootstrap component, write some jQuery and pretend to make super multi-level menu tutorial. But your video is awesome. Could you make a close to a real-life advanced responsible multi-level HTML/CSS/JS mega menu tutorial?

can you make it on hover as most of the cases there are more on hover than on click, i tried to modify your code but got some problems. the menu is bouncing up and down, what's the good way to modify it to on hover?

Awsome.

Awesome

I would be happy being able do the boring dropdown

About bringing in those customers in my life, Kyle, you've done incredibly so well. Much thanks.

Kyle how do you remember so many tags attributes?

Hi Kyle. I've been writing JS for over 10 years and thought I knew it pretty well. But I guess there's been a ton of stuff added to JS and CSS when I wasn't looking. So I'm astounded at how much stuff you use that I've never heard of. Your videos contain a conucopia (since we're now in fall) of cool tips. However, I notice that whenever you go to wrap an element in HTML, you do so manually. Not that it takes that long, but I thought you'd appreciate the opportunity to save yourself a few steps. I had been using the wrapWithAbbreviation command, but am now using a plugin called 'htmltagwrap', which I've assigned to alt + W, which I find works really well. Anyway, thanks for all the great videos.

I totally love his videos!

thnx for usefull video how we can use it with reactjs i mean js code

Suggestion, make use of the details element. Will remove the need for JS.

@OnePieceWonPeace

2 жыл бұрын

Checkout :focus-within. You can also leverage Generic and Adjacent Sibling Selectors if necessary.

Id love to see a version of this for react

But why use javascript? maybe we could have used the :focus-within pseudo-class and it would handle the active state. Also, maybe we could have animated the max-height property like setting it to 0 initially with overflow hidden and then on hover/focus set it to fit-content and animate that using transition. Let me know what you think :)

@siddiqahmed3274

2 жыл бұрын

If you're looking to be a web developer and trying to avoid js it us simply not possible... Also i don't think height is gonna animate from 0 to fit content. Try yourself

@Jeppelelle

2 жыл бұрын

@@siddiqahmed3274 "If you're looking to be a web developer and trying to avoid js it us simply not possible" absolutely not true...turn off javascript in your browser and you will see that plenty of websites still works without it, alot of developers still implement fallbacks for non js users, so javascript is mostly for "flair" not for usability. So one could easily develop websites without js, most js implementations are overused anyway

@sliver37

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jeppelelle Just because we provide fallbacks doesn't mean we are able to avoid the JavaScript portion. You still need to be a solid JavaScript developer to get 99% of jobs on the market these days.

@MrMudbill

2 жыл бұрын

@@sliver37 In addition, while many websites will _work_ without JavaScript, they may lose a lot of functionality. A JS-less website is not competitive in today's market (unfortunately).

@mortent877

2 жыл бұрын

Imao, it's not about avoiding JS all together because you can't use it, but rather if there is a CSS solution for it, skip the JS. It simplyfies the web app as it gets more complex. For instance, by using CSS instead of JS when you can, you don't have to reinitialize UI JS code every time the DOM changes. Take it from someone with more than 20 years of web dev experience 😉

if the navbar is responsive and turns into a dropdown for smaller screens, then what do we do for the secondary dropdown?

@pierre-jeanchancellier8955

2 жыл бұрын

The easiest way is to hide this navbar for small screens and to display the hamburger menu instead.

I am brand new to this coding and learning. How do i get the webpage open so i can see my code making changes like he has on the right side of the screen.

Thanks

Why does my visual studio 2019 not recognise the data attributes (data-dropdown) it just treats it like a class

thanx bro

If your dropdown inside the container with overflow hidden, the contents won’t show

Thx, interresting example instead of using standart ul li way

I try the same way you did, but when I put i with class which mean icon instead of the text. it Does'nt work.

Hi there, thanks so much for the tutorial. I would like ask you about :focus selector cause, doesn't work actually on safari but only in chrome. I tried a couple of things but nothing. Hope you can help me cause actually like your method. Thanks

Man, how could you talking so fast but keep typing fast too xD But glad we still able to follow

Looks like we'll have the .has() selector within a year. I'm hoping that will dramatically reduce the amount of JS needed here.

Everything works except the end of the javascript chapter everything seems to work and I followed every single instruction but it doesn't seem to work after inputting the new javascript and css

If you are still reading comments, is there any chance you could tell me why the html doesn't seem to work. All of the links come out in a vertical column when I run it in chrome? I am trying to learn something and not really at this level yet. Thanks, Joe

Dropdown was working but deleting menu items. When you change the css it will not even open. Looked great but appears to be broken