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

 Live Demo

<!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 −

Updated on: 11-May-2020

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