A beauty drop down responsive menu that shows its sub menus with icon symbol using open symbol fonts that allowing you to add more icons as you want. With my previous tutorial, i also show how to create Creating 3-Level Responsive Drop Down Navigation Menu with jQuery and CSS3 as well.

Demo download

Today we would like to show an experimental drop-down menu with jquery and css3 using beautiful symbol fonts. The main idea is to help you to save time for creating menus for website, it have a lot of content and sub-levels. Some sub-level in this menu will be shown in its context and icons. The menu is best use in professional web design that it can be used easily in a responsive layout.

This Responsive Drop Down Navigation Menu using plugin such as:

• jquery-v1.7.1.js
• google font

The CSS Style

a {
	color: #23dbdb;
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
	color: #000;
}
ol, ul {
	list-style: none;
	padding:0px;
	margin:0px;
}
#wrap {
	margin: 0 auto;
}

.inner {
	margin: 0 auto;
	max-width: 940px;
	padding: 0 40px;
}

.relative {
	position: relative;
}

.right {
	float: right;
}

.left {
	float: left;
}

/* HEADER */
#wrap > header {
	background-color: #333;
	padding-bottom: 20px;
}
.logo {
	display: inline-block;
	font-size: 0;
	padding-top:15px;
}
#navigation {
	position: absolute;
	right: 40px;
	bottom: 0px;
}

#menu-toggle {
	display: none;
	float: right;
}

/* HEADER > MENU */
#main-menu {
	float: right;
	font-size: 0;
	margin: 10px 0;
}

#main-menu > li {
	display: inline-block;
	margin-left: 30px;
	padding: 2px 0;
}

#main-menu > li.parent {
	background-image: url(../images/plus-gray.png);
	background-size: 7px 7px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: left center;
}

#main-menu > li.parent > a {
	padding-left: 14px;
}

#main-menu > li > a {
	color: #eee;
	font-size: 14px;
	line-height: 14px;
	padding: 30px 0;
	text-decoration:none;
}

#main-menu > li:hover > a,
#main-menu > li.current-menu-item > a {
	color: #23dbdb;
}

/* HEADER > MENU > DROPDOWN */
#main-menu li {
	position: relative;
}

ul.sub-menu { /* level 2 */
	display: none;
	left: 0px;
	top: 38px;
	padding-top: 10px;
	position: absolute;
	width: 150px;
	z-index: 9999;
}

ul.sub-menu ul.sub-menu { /* level 3+ */
	margin-top: -1px;
	padding-top: 0;
	left: 149px;
	top: 0px;
}

ul.sub-menu > li > a {
	background-color: #333;
	border: 1px solid #444;
	border-top: none;
	color: #bbb;
	display: block;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 15px;
	padding: 10px 12px;
}

ul.sub-menu > li > a:hover {
	background-color: #2a2a2a; 
	color: #fff;
}

ul.sub-menu > li:first-child {
	border-top: 3px solid #23dbdb;
}

ul.sub-menu ul.sub-menu > li:first-child {
	border-top: 1px solid #444;
}

ul.sub-menu > li:last-child > a {
	border-radius: 0 0 2px 2px;
}

ul.sub-menu > li > a.parent {
	background-image: url(../images/arrow.png);
	background-size: 5px 9px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: 95% center;
}

#main-menu li:hover > ul.sub-menu {
	display: block; /* show the submenu */
}

The CSS Responsive Style

@media all and (max-width: 700px) {

	#navigation {
		position: static;
		margin-top: 20px;
	}

	#menu-toggle {
		display: block;
	}

	#main-menu {
		display: none;
		float: none;
	}

	#main-menu li {
		display: block;
		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
	}

	#main-menu > li {
		margin-top: -1px;
	}

	#main-menu > li:first-child {
		margin-top: 0;
	}

	#main-menu > li > a {
		background-color: #333;
		border: 1px solid #444;
		color: #bbb;
		display: block;
		font-size: 14px;
		padding: 12px !important;
		padding: 0;
	}

	#main-menu li > a:hover {
		background-color: #444; 
	}

	#main-menu > li.parent {
		background: none !important;
		padding: 0;
	}

	#main-menu > li:hover > a,
	#main-menu > li.current-menu-item > a {
		border: 1px solid #444 !important;
		color: #fff !important;
	}

	ul.sub-menu {
		display: block;
		margin-top: -1px;
		margin-left: 20px;
		position: static;
		padding: 0;
		width: inherit;
	}

	ul.sub-menu > li:first-child {
		border-top: 1px solid #444 !important;
	}

	ul.sub-menu > li > a.parent {
		background: #333 !important;
	}
}

The JavaScript Function:

$(document).ready(function() {

	/* MAIN MENU */
	$('#main-menu > li:has(ul.sub-menu)').addClass('parent');
	$('ul.sub-menu > li:has(ul.sub-menu) > a').addClass('parent');

	$('#menu-toggle').click(function() {
		$('#main-menu').slideToggle(300);
		return false;
	});

	$(window).resize(function() {
		if ($(window).width() > 700) {
			$('#main-menu').removeAttr('style');
		}
	});

});

Now! We have a Responsive Drop Down Menu jQuery CSS3 Using Icon Symbol. Check out the demo link, and feel free to download this example for future use. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and find it useful!