Every website needs a navigation bar, and a good one is more work than it looks. It needs a layout that still holds up when links are added, dropdown menus that open on hover and on click, a hamburger menu that works on phones, sensible scroll behaviour, keyboard support and screen-reader labels — and then the same component again in whichever framework the next project uses. This free responsive navbar builder handles all of that visually and hands you clean, production-ready code.
Pick a preset or a layout, set your logo and links, add dropdown menus, choose how the bar behaves on scroll and on mobile, style it, and copy the result as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, a React component, a Tailwind component, a Vue 3 component or an Angular component. Or click Fork & Edit to keep working on it in a full code editor. Everything below explains each part of the tool.
Presets: start from a finished navbar
The Presets tab holds six complete navbars you can apply with one click — SaaS, Portfolio, E-commerce, Docs, Midnight and Agency. Each one sets the layout, logo, links, dropdowns, colors, scroll effect and mobile menu together, so you see a realistic result immediately and only have to change what is different for your site. Nothing is locked: every setting stays editable in the other tabs.
Four navbar layouts
The buttons at the top of the left panel switch between four layouts. Default places the logo on the left and the links on the right — the standard pattern for marketing sites and web apps. Centered groups everything in the middle, popular for portfolios and personal sites. Split uses a three-column CSS grid (1fr auto 1fr) to put links on both sides of a centered logo, a common look for shops and agencies; the first half of your links go left and the rest go right. Minimal shows links only, for documentation and apps where the logo lives elsewhere. Every layout collapses to the same hamburger menu on small screens.
Logo and brand
In the Logo tab, type your brand name and add an optional icon in front of it. The emoji picker offers a grid of logo-friendly symbols — tech, business, creative, nature and simple shapes — or you can paste any emoji or character yourself. The logo is set 4px larger than your link text so it stands out, and it links to your home page.
Links, the active page and CTA buttons
The Links tab is a full link editor: rename links, change their URLs, reorder them with the ↑ ↓ arrows, add new ones and remove old ones. Click the green dot to mark the current page — it is shown in your accent color and gets aria-current="page" so screen readers announce it. Click CTA to turn a link into a filled call-to-action button such as "Get Started" or "Sign up"; on mobile it becomes a full-width button at the bottom of the menu.
Dropdown menus and submenus
Click "+ Dropdown item" under any link to give it a submenu, then fill in each item's label and URL. The parent becomes a button with a small arrow. On desktop the dropdown menu floats under its link and opens on hover or on click with a short fade-and-slide, and an invisible bridge stops it closing while the pointer moves into it. On phones the same dropdown becomes an expandable section inside the mobile menu. Dropdowns close on Escape or on a click anywhere outside the navbar, and each one reports its state to assistive technology with aria-expanded.
Navbar scroll effects: sticky, shrink, hide and transparent
The Behavior tab controls how the navbar reacts as the page scrolls. Static scrolls away with the content. Sticky keeps the bar pinned to the top of the screen with position: sticky. Shrink stays pinned and slims its padding down — with a slightly stronger shadow — once you start scrolling, freeing up space for content. Hide on scroll slides the bar out of view while you scroll down and brings it straight back on any scroll up, a pattern that works especially well on phones. Transparent places a clear navbar over a hero image or banner and fades it to a solid background as soon as the page scrolls.
Responsive mobile menu and animated hamburger icon
Below the breakpoint you choose (480–1024px, 768px by default) the links collapse behind a hamburger menu. Pick one of three mobile menu styles: a Dropdown panel that opens under the bar, a Drawer that slides in from the left or right over a dimmed page (an off-canvas menu), or a Full screen overlay with large, centered links. Then choose the hamburger animation — a Cross that morphs into an ×, an Arrow that folds into a ← back arrow, or a Spin. The menu closes when a link is chosen, when the dimmed backdrop is tapped, or when Escape is pressed, and the drawer and full-screen menus lock the page scroll behind them.
Style: colors, spacing and typography
The Style tab sets the look. Three color pickers — Background, Text and Accent — each take a native picker or a hex code; the accent is used for the active link, hover states, the CTA button and keyboard focus outlines. Sliders control the bar's padding, the font size, the gap between links and the CTA corner radius, four buttons choose the font weight, and two toggles add a drop shadow or a bottom border. Dropdowns and mobile menus automatically use the same colors.
A live preview that runs the real code
The preview is not a mock-up: it is a real, scrollable page running the exact HTML, CSS and JavaScript you will export, so dropdowns, scroll effects and the mobile menu behave just as they will on your site. Scroll inside it to try the sticky, shrink, hide or transparent effect. Click Mobile to view it in a real 375px-wide frame where the media query switches to the hamburger menu, and tap the icon to open it.
Export: HTML, React, Tailwind, Vue and Angular
Choose a format above the code and click Copy. HTML gives you the markup, a <style> block and a few lines of vanilla JavaScript with no libraries. React gives a Navbar.jsx component using useState and useEffect with a matching Navbar.css. Tailwind gives a React component styled entirely with utility classes. Vue gives a Vue 3 single-file component with <script setup> and <style scoped>. Angular gives a standalone Angular 17+ component using signals and the @for / @if control flow. Every format includes the same dropdowns, mobile menu, scroll behaviour and accessibility attributes.
Fork & Edit: keep building in My Code
Fork & Edit — in the preview bar and next to the Copy button — opens your navbar in My Code, the free in-browser code editor on webdevpuneet.com, as a new snippet. The HTML, CSS and JavaScript land in separate editor panes with a live preview, together with the demo page, so you can carry on where the builder stops: add your real page content, rename classes, change the markup or extend the styles. The snippet is saved in your browser, and from My Code you can export it as a standalone HTML file, a React JSX component or a React + Tailwind component, or back it up to a private GitHub Gist. Nothing is uploaded — the hand-off happens through your browser's local storage.
Accessible, dependency-free and private
The exported navbar follows accessibility best practice: a <nav aria-label="Main"> landmark, a real <button> for the hamburger with aria-controls, aria-expanded and a changing label, aria-current on the active page, Escape to close menus, and visible :focus-visible outlines. It needs no Bootstrap, jQuery, icon font or plugin. The builder itself is free, needs no sign-up, and runs entirely in your browser — your design is never sent to a server, and the code is yours to use in personal and commercial projects.
