Adoptive Headers Using CSS

Creating three adoptive headers using CSS:

Horizontally-header scroll
Make a nav Menu Available from a fixed-position Header
Sticky Header

1. Horizontally header scroll

The links are wrapping onto a second line.

What if we don’t want to wrap links? 🤔

Let’s target all the links in our nav and make sure it does not wrap. To do that we will apply white-space: nowrap; to nav. So, the line will be on the first line and does not wrap.

The scroll behaviour was not much smooth. So, added smooth as -webkit-overflow-scrolling on nav.

<html>
  <body>

    <div>
      <nav>
        <a href="#">Home</a>
        <a href="#">About Us</a>
        <a href="#">Contact Us</a>
        <a href="#">Gallery</a>
        <a href="#">Home</a>
        <a href="#">About Us</a>
        <a href="#">Contact Us</a>
        <a href="#">Gallery</a>
        <a href="#">Home</a>
        <a href="#">About Us</a>
        <a href="#">Contact Us</a>
        <a href="#">Gallery</a>
        <a href="#">Home</a>
        <a href="#">About Us</a>
        <a href="#">Contact Us</a>
        <a href="#">Gallery</a>
      </nav>  
      <p>Hello World!</p>
    </div>

  </body>
</html>

nav {
    display: flex;
    overflow-x: auto;
    margin: 10px 0;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}
a {
    margin: 0 10px;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

OUTPUT:

2. Make a Nav Menu Available from a fixed-position Header ⏣

To create nav Menu with fixed header: (using jQuery)

We will be adding menu icon, where we are toggling the ‘nav’ on the tap of ≡(menu) icon.

We will make sure to give position fixed to both header and nav. So, it should be fixed at the top of the page.

<html>
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

  <body>
    <header>
      <div id="title">Logo</div>
      <div id="menu-icon">≡</div>
    </header>

    <nav>
      <ul>
        <li>Home</li>
        <li>Settings</li>
        <li>Profile</li>
        <li>Pictures</li>
      </ul>
    </nav>

    <div class="container">
      <img src="https://techstickerhub.com/images/demo/shop/GitHub.jpg">
      <img src="https://techstickerhub.com/images/demo/shop/GitHub.jpg">
      <img src="https://techstickerhub.com/images/demo/shop/GitHub.jpg">
      <img src="https://techstickerhub.com/images/demo/shop/GitHub.jpg">
      <img src="https://techstickerhub.com/images/demo/shop/GitHub.jpg">
    </div>

  </body>
</html>

html,
body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
header {
  position: fixed;
  background-color: white;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #bbb;
  width: 95%;
}
.container {
  padding-top: 50px;
}
img {
  width: 300px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
img:last-child {
  border-bottom: none;
}
#menu-icon {
  font-size: 30px;
  cursor: pointer;
}
nav {
  display: none;
  position: fixed;
  top: 56px;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  font-size: 15px;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}
ul {
  background-color: #73d796;
  margin: 0;
  padding-left: 20px;
  list-style: none
}
li {
  padding: 20px 0;
}

$("#menu-icon").on("click", () => {
  $("nav").toggle();
})
// when user taps to nav it should close
$("nav").on("click", () => {
  $("nav").toggle()
}).children().on("click", () => {
  // it will close the nav on tap of nav list
  return true;
})

OUTPUT:

3. Sticky Header 🔥

Here we are taking an example of <dt>, <dd> tag to explain the sticky header. Position sticky will manage the <dt> to place at the top of position as sticky. To do that, we need to add position: sticky; position: -webkit-sticky (to target webkit browser) to <dt> tag.

If we need to stick the <dt> tag at the top of page then we need to give top: 0px. The top property specify the vertical offset from its normal position. So, top: 20px would make <dt> tag sticky 20px down from the top.

The description term(dt tag) , where header-stays fixed at the top of the page. As we scroll down and we get to the next section, it takes over the first header and so on.

<html>
<head>
    <title>Sticky header</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Welocme to Sticky Header! </h1>
<dl>
    <dt>Hello World1</dt>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>

    <dt>Hello World2</dt>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>

    <dt>Hello World3</dt>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>

    <dt>Hello World3</dt>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
    <dd>hello1</dd>
</dl>
</body>
</html>

dt {
   position: sticky;
   top: 0;
   position: -webkit-sticky;
   background: pink;
   padding: 10px;
}
dd {
    padding: 20px 10px;
 }

OUTPUT:

Adoptive Headers Using CSS

1. Horizontally header scroll

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2. Make a Nav Menu Available from a fixed-position Header ⏣

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3. Sticky Header 🔥

OUTPUT:

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