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Creating a Navigation Menu using CSS Image Sprite
Image sprite is used to reduce the number of http requests that makes our site’s load time faster.
Following is the code for creating a navigation menu using CSS image sprite −
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0px;
}
span {
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
background-color: black;
}
nav {
background-color: black;
height: 50px;
padding-top: 15px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
nav a {
font-size: 20px;
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.home {
width: 32px;
height: 32px;
background: url("css_sprites.png") -62px -62px;
}
.search {
width: 32px;
height: 32px;
background: url("css_sprites.png") -10px -62px;
}
.phone {
width: 32px;
height: 32px;
background: url("css_sprites.png") -62px -10px;
}
.user {
width: 32px;
height: 32px;
background: url("css_sprites.png") -10px -10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<nav>
<img class="home" />
<a href="">HOME</a>
<img class="phone" />
<a href="">Call Us</a>
<img class="user" />
<a href="">Our Team</a>
<img class="search" />
<a href="">Search</a>
</nav>
<h1>
Main content here
</h1>
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</body>
</html>
Output
The above code will produce the following output −

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