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Creating a simple vertical navigation bar

Creating a simple vertical navigation bar

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Creating a simple vertical navigation bar

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- [Instructor] Vertical nav bars don't seem to be much in style these days; however, they're still a useful way of displaying a bunch of links, particularly when you aren't sure how many there will be. They're really useful on blogs and on other content-heavy sites, and that might be where you see them. I'm going to walk you through one possible way of creating a vertical navigation bar. Obviously, there are approximately 500 bajillion different ways to do this. I do have a course coming out, in not too long, that will be on how to create nav bars horizontally and vertically, and show you a bunch of different styling options. But, for now, in this course, I'm going to keep it brief, let's do just one vertical and one horizontal, that'll be the next video. So, let's start, remembering that every HTML element is a box that you can leverage in creating a nav bar, and remembering exactly which box you're at and how large those boxes are and how much area they take up are really key to…

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