CSS3 Powered Portfolio & Menu

Today I just saw a nice JQuery menu which impressed me and my friends. One of my friend challenged me to make this in CSS3, so within few hours I completed the challenge and came up with a nice concept of PORTFOLIO + MENU.

I am going to share a tutorial on making a portfolio website within a menu using CSS3.

We will make a li list menu and inside that we will wrap our content div,

• on hover of menu some nice effects + on click our content = a perfect CSS3 powered portfolio website.

HTML Markup:

[html]
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="portfolio">
<ul id="box">
<li style="background-color: #2C618F;">Home
<input type="checkbox" id="oneCheck" />
<label for="oneCheck"></label>
<div class="content" style="background-color: #2C618F;"><p>Welcome to WebsTutorial.Com(WT), find amazing tutorials on CSS3, HTML5, PHP, JQuery, AJAX, Wordpress and many more.<br />
Some cool tutorials.
<dl id="list">
<dt><a href="http://webstutorial.com/range-input-slider-html5-css3/html-5" target="_blank">HTML5 Range Slider</a></dt>
<dt><a href="http://webstutorial.com/css3-tabs/css3" target="_blank">CSS3 Tabs</a></dt>
<dt><a href="http://webstutorial.com/css3-clock/css3" target="_blank">CSS3 Clock</a></dt>
</dl>
</p><label for="oneCheck">X</label></div>
</li>
<li style="background-color: #91AB31;">About Us
<input type="checkbox" id="twoCheck" />
<label for="twoCheck"></label>
<div class="content" style="background-color: #91AB31;"><p>WebsTutorial is a website for all kind of website coders, here we share amazing tutorials on topics like HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, AJAX etc. We also share tutorials for making you learn PHP, cake php, codeigniter. We also work as freelancers for making websites in CMS or Frameworks.</p><label for="twoCheck">X</label></div>
</li>
<li style="background-color: #714A28;">Portfolio
<input type="checkbox" id="threeCheck" />
<label for="threeCheck"></label>
<div class="content" style="background-color: #714A28;">
<p style="overflow-y: scroll; height: 200px; padding: 0pt 40px;">
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img1.jpg" />
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img2.jpg" />
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img3.jpg" />
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img4.jpg" />
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img5.jpg" />
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img6.jpg" />
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img7.jpg" />
<img src="http://quanticalabs.com/Nostalgia/Template/image/_sample/thumb_img8.jpg" />
</p>
<label for="threeCheck">X</label></div>
</li>
<li style="background-color: #E58600;">Contact Us
<input type="checkbox" id="fourCheck" />
<label for="fourCheck"></label>
<div class="content" style="background-color: #E58600;"><p>You can always contact us by emailing us your queries, suggestions or enquiries on <a href="mailto:admin@webstutorial.com">admin@webstutorial.com</a></p><label for="fourCheck">X</label></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
[/html]

HTML is really simple ti understand, now comes the CSS3 code:

[css]
ul#box {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #EEEEEE;

-webkit-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px;

-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset;
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset;
float: left;
padding: 20px;
position: relative;
width: 400px;
}

#box li {
list-style-type: none;
float: left;
width: 200px;
font-size: 0px;

-webkit-transition: font ease 500ms;
-moz-transition: font ease 500ms;
-o-transition: font ease 500ms;
-ms-transition: font ease 500ms;
transition: font ease 500ms;
width: 200px;
height: 120px;
text-align: center;
color: #fff;
font-style: italic;
overflow: hidden;
}

#box li input[type="checkbox"] {
display: none;
}

#box li:hover {
font-size: 28px;

background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(center top , rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0));
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(center top , rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0));
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(center top , rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0));
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(center top , rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0));
background-image: linear-gradient(center top , rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0));
}

#box li label {
background: transparent;
width: 200px;
height: 120px;
display: block;
}

.content {
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
width: 0;
font-size: 12px;

-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-out 0s;
-moz-transition: all 0.3s ease-out 0s;
-o-transition: all 0.3s ease-out 0s;
-ms-transition: all 0.3s ease-out 0s;
transition: all 0.3s ease-out 0s;
z-index: 100;
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
}

#oneCheck:checked ~ .content,#twoCheck:checked ~ .content,#threeCheck:checked ~ .content,#fourCheck:checked ~ .content {
font-size: 12px;
height: 230px;
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=95)";
filter: alpha(opacity=95);
opacity: 0.95;
padding: 10px 10px 0;
width: 380px;
overflow: visible;
}

.content label {
display: none;
}

#oneCheck:checked ~ .content label,#twoCheck:checked ~ .content label,#threeCheck:checked ~ .content label,#fourCheck:checked ~ .content label {
border: 5px solid #FFFFFF;

-webkit-border-radius: 40px 40px 40px 40px;
-moz-border-radius: 40px 40px 40px 40px;
border-radius: 40px 40px 40px 40px;
color: #FFFFFF;
cursor: pointer;
font: bold 20px/40px arial,helvetica;
height: 40px;
position: absolute;
right: -20px;
text-align: center;
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=95)";
filter: alpha(opacity=95);
opacity: 0.95;
background: #000000;
top: -20px;
width: 40px;
}
[/css]

We are simply using checkbox to show and hide the portfolio content using :checked pseudo class.
On checked we are showing the content div using CSS3 transition effects.

Why to use JQuery when you have power of CSS3 ;)