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title: Navigation Bars
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## Navigation Bars
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Navigation bars are a very important element to any website. They provide the main method of navigation by providing a main list of links to a user. There are many methods to creating a navigation bar. The easiest way to create a navigation bar is to use an unordered list and style it with CSS.
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Navigation Bars are mostly made up of `<ul>` lists that are horizontally arranged and styled.
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While styling the navigation bars, it's common to remove the extra spacing created by the `<ul>` and `<li>` tags as well as the bulletpoints that are automatically inserted:
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```css
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list-style-type: none;
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margin: 0px;
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padding: 0px;
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```
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**Example:**
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There are two parts to any navigation: the HTML and the CSS. This is just a quick example.
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```html
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<nav class="myNav"> <!-- Any element can be used here -->
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<ul>
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<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
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<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
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</ul>
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</nav>
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```
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```css
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/* Define the main Navigation block */
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.myNav {
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display: block;
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height: 50px;
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line-height: 50px;
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background-color: #333;
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}
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/* Remove bullets, margin and padding */
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.myNav ul {
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list-style: none;
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padding: 0;
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margin: 0;
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}
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.myNav li {
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float: left;
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/* Or you can use display: inline; */
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}
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/* Define the block styling for the links */
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.myNav li a {
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display: inline-block;
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text-align: center;
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padding: 14px 16px;
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}
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/* This is optional, however if you want to display the active link differently apply a background to it */
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.myNav li a.active {
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background-color: #3786E1;
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}
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```
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#### More Information:
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<!-- Please add any articles you think might be helpful to read before writing the article -->
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More Navigation Examples: [W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_navbar.asp)
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