Creating an animated navigation menu

Your website's navigation allows your visitors to easily find the content hosted on your site. Providing the user with a fun and interactive navigation menu that is also easy to use can make a lasting impression on them. This recipe shows you how to create a modern animated navigation menu.

Getting ready

Create recipe-5.html, recipe-5.css, and recipe-5.js in the same directory as the latest version of the jQuery library.

How to do it…

Perform all of the following steps to create a unique and modern animated navigation menu for any site:

  1. Add the following HTML to recipe-5.html to create the basic web page, and include the newly created files along with the jQuery library:
    <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Chapter ...

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