Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger – Horizontal Menus

Posted In Uncategorized - By Piyush Dungrani On Saturday, February 27th, 2010 With 37 Comments

Here is a list of 18 Horizontal CSS Drop down menus, adding drop down menus in blogger can benefit your readers to find out the intended Posts of the blog with ease. There is nothing like widget for blogger menus, you suppose to add the menu with your own. To add drop down menu in blogger you need is just a little bit of CSS and HTML code and put that code at the right place in your blog and done. We have a list of Horizontal CSS Drop down Menus for Blogspot Blogs, you need to choose the menu and add the code to your blog. you might have seen the article about How to Add Navigation menu in blogger on geek blogger.

 Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger   Horizontal MenusBelow is a Memorandum of Drop down Menus, you can add any menu from the list given in below image.

 Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger   Horizontal Menusso lets start now introducing the menus one bye one, whichever you like just copy code and paste the code, you can also customize the menus online and then copy the code. Below Menus are from the Above image and menu numbers are 1 to 18 respectively.

1. Massive Blue Drop Down menu: Demo | Download Source
2. Sunrise Gloss: Demo | Download Source
3. Blue Dawn Drop Down: Demo | Download Source
4. Blue Center Drop Bar: Demo | Download Source
5. Black Center Drop Bar: Demo | Download Source
6. Blue Impression Drop Down Menu: Demo | Download Source
7. Green Impression Drop Down Menu: Demo | Download Source
8. Sunrise Gloss: Demo | Download Source
9. Blue Tabbed Drop Down: Demo | Download Source
10. Yellow Tabbed Drop Down Menu: Demo | Download Source
11. Tabbed Grey Drop Down: Demo | Download Source
12. Red Tabbed Drop Down: Demo | Download Source
13. Black Tabbed Drop Down: Demo | Download Source
14. Orange Tabbed Drop Down: Demo | Download Source
15. Simple Red: Demo | Download Source
16. Simple Black: Demo | Download Source
17. Simple Blue: Demo | Download Source
18. Simple Green: Demo | Download Source

Before Going ahead you should have now three Things.

1) HTML File – Contains the code of the menu
2) Images folder – Contains Images used in menu
3) CSS file – Contains Style used in menu

Now After Choosing the Menu follow the steps given below to add the menu in Blogger.

Step 1. Go to your blogger dashboard and select the blog in which you want to add drop down menu.
Step 2. Navigate to the Layout > Page Elements.

Layout Page Elements Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger   Horizontal MenusStep 3. Now click on Add a Gadget and paste the menu code (Copy the code from the downloaded source of the drop down menu) and click on save button.

Step 4. Now Drag & Drop that Widget to the top of the Blog Posts Section and Done!.

 Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger   Horizontal MenusHow to Add CSS for Menu:

  • On Your Dashboard, Click on Layout (see below shown picture for further assistance)
Select Blogger Layout Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger   Horizontal Menus
  • Now Click on HTML (see below shown picture for further assistance)

edit html Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger   Horizontal Menus

  • Now Check the box of Expand Widget Templates (see below shown picture for assistance)
expand Add Drop Down Menu Widget in Blogger   Horizontal Menus

Now find this code ]]> and Put the CSS Code exactly Above the code.

How to Add Images of Menu in Blogger:

To Add any image you need to just upload it to the Picasa or in blogger and copy the generated HTML image Code and paste that code in Menu Code or CSS Code wherever applicable.

That’s Done! Hope this Post will be helpful for Blogspot Users.

Note: If you want me to add any CSS menu to your blog or want Tutorial for adding any menu please comment Below the URL of that menu and your Blog Name + Link. I will Surely try to help you.

Best Luck Guys, If you have any difficulty while implementing this code don’t hesitate to comment below.

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  1. i get one .. ^_*

    u can see here .. http://www.harmony-music.net

    thanxxx ^^"

  2. JEET says:

    Great thing buddy,,,, well as i have been asked about it is hear ha….

    before it i have been modified those blog code of mine n its working now…with IE….

    in future i will try this…superb collection..you site keep rocking….

    Keep it up

  3. Geek Blogger says:

    Nice one :-) , Thanks for commenting. Have you find any difficulty while
    implementing the menu?

  4. Geek Blogger says:

    Give me your Blog address please.

  5. no .. I did not find any difficulty in the implementation of the existing .. that's easy and simple :)

  6. Geek Blogger says:

    I am happy that i am adding value to my friends. thanks for your feedback.

  7. Geek Blogger says:

    Ohh!! that's cool. No need to thank friend, i would love to help in future
    also if you have any other problems as well :-) and i have checked the menu
    and i find it working fine now :-)

  8. Dusht says:

    Doing a great job Peeyush. Yours is one of the few blogs I would rate very high. In fact, I will mention about your blog in one of the posts very soon.

    Today morning I spent so much time on your blog learning about adding a dropdown to blogger. I must say I havent been completely successful… still figuring out the images stuff…. and gotto link stuff… I am extremely non technical so bahut mushkil se hota hai mujhse yeh sab :) Thank you.

  9. Wow great! Really help for blogger. Thanks bro!

  10. Geek Blogger says:

    sure you can use this dropdown menu without hosting also, now google have
    facility to upload your files. you can upload your javascript files there
    and images from picasa :)

  11. Steph says:

    thank you so much for the resources and the amazing tutorial!

  12. iDoktor says:

    Can I somehow use this if I don't have a hosting? I use blogger server.

    Thanks, great tutorial.

  13. iDoktor says:

    Thanks.

    I just tried and it is not possible to get direct link for files or folders. Any ideas?

  14. iDoktor says:

    The hosting cannot display it properly because there is no direct link option.

  15. Geek Blogger says:

    where exactly you are getting stuck?, tell me more about your problem. have you uploaded javascript anywhere?

  16. mexafuria says:

    hurm i dunno why .nothing happen after change the margin left 0….i use latest firefox
    but it is ok …i delete the Home button and i think its fine now…=)

  17. Trend4tad says:

    It’s not working please help!

  18. Anna says:

    Hey, wonderful tutorial but I have serious issues in making the submenu-s functional. I was able to make it for another blog and it worked but for this one it’s not working and it’s driving me crazy. I guess it has something to do with the template html code.
    Here is the link:
    http://rcionca.blogspot.com/
    Please let me know what else I can add that will help you help me :)

    Cheers
    Anna

    • @Anna, currently i am not able to see your blog as of currently i am facing some ISP providers issue in india, once that will get resolved i will surely try to look into your blog and then will let you know the solution of your problem. By the way currently i have looked using proxy and i have seen dropdown is working fine in the blog rcionca.blogspot.com

  19. rohit says:

    http://www.aboutallbanks.blogspot.com sir plz help me for add the menu and which code copy in html gadget ….. i am coping style named icon code …..

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