---
title: "Building a sidenav component"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-sidenav-component-jr9xku0la
source_url: https://web.dev/building-a-sidenav-component/
type: article
source: "web.dev"
published: 2021-01-21T17:29:27.249Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["css"]
upvotes: 42
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Building a sidenav component

**[web.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/web)** · 42 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Sidenav is a responsive slide-out navigation system for the web. It has one sidebar and toggles only when at a "mobile" viewport of 540px or less. It is stateful, supports keyboard navigation, works with and without JavaScript, and works across browsers. Here's a video version of this post.

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**@idoshamun** · 0 upvotes

> I wasn't familiar with pseudo selector `:target`. Got myself new ideas out of it :)

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