Snappy & User Friendly Dropdown Menus

menu-aim

At every position of the cursor you can picture a triangle between the current mouse position and the upper and lower right corners of the dropdown menu. If the next mouse position is within that triangle, the user is probably moving their cursor into the currently displayed submenu.

If the cursor goes outside of the blue triangle, they instantly switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

A jQuery Plugin enabling this for your own menus is available.

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Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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