We create a number of custom menu hover effects for many of our clients and child themes so I decided it is time to get some of those tutorials into your hands.
In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can make Divi Menu Top & Bottom Borders that expand and rotate into view when you hover over each menu item.
*Note: This customization will not work correctly if you have drop down sub-menus. That will require additional modifications not yet available on this tutorial.
Let’s Get Started Making The Rotating Top & Bottom Borders
Adding The Custom CSS
If you are working with a child theme you can go to Appearance>Editor and open your stylesheet. If not, go to Appearance>Divi Theme Options>Custom CSS (which is located at the bottom of the first tab in Theme Options)
Add this CSS.
/*------------------------------------------------*/ /*---------[GQ - MENU ROTATING BORDERS]-----------*/ /*------------------------------------------------*/ #et-top-navigation nav > ul > li > a { padding-bottom: 20px!important;} #top-menu-nav > ul > li > a { display: inline-block; position: relative; padding-bottom: 1px;} #top-menu-nav > ul > li > a:before { content: ''; display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 2px; width: 0%; background: transparent; -webkit-transition: width 0.6s, -webkit-transform 0.4s; -moz-transition: width 0.6s, -moz-transform 0.4s; transition: width 0.6s, transform 0.4s; -moz-transform: rotate(90deg); -ms-transform: rotate(90deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg); transform: rotate(90deg);} #top-menu-nav > ul > li > a:after { content: ''; display: block; margin: auto; margin-top: 10px; height: 2px; width: 0%; background: transparent; -webkit-transition: width 0.6s, -webkit-transform 0.4s; -moz-transition: width 0.6s, -moz-transform 0.4s; transition: width 0.6s, transform 0.4s; -moz-transform: rotate(90deg); -ms-transform: rotate(90deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg); transform: rotate(90deg);} #top-menu-nav > ul > li > a:hover:after, #top-menu-nav > ul > li > a:hover:before { width: 100%; background: #3173b5; -moz-transform: rotate(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg); transform: rotate(0deg);}
Making Adjustments
Now because there are already so many menu padding options available in the Theme Customizer, there is a good chance you may have to adjust the bottom padding of the main buttons. You can change that here.
The following rules change the top border and bottom border
The following rules change the thickness and the location of the borders.
The following rules change the timing of the expanding width and the rotation. You can actually have different timing for each or make them the same. The yellow is the expanding width timing and the green is the rotation animation.
And lastly, the following rule changes the border colors.
And that’s it.
If you used this on one of your projects, please share a link below so we can see how you used it.
Have fun!
Well, that’s all for now. I hope you find this article useful.
Great tuts! Used this effect on https://chasethetrainer.com because the Double Outline Reveal didn’t work for me in FireFox.
This is great. I love it and thanks for sharing.