Create a slick CSS-based Drop Down menu
Surfing the web one finds many different solutions for drop down menus, of which many involve or even solely depend on JavaScript. I would like to present another option which I personally find really cool because its easy to use and utilizes features within the HTML and CSS standards without any weird workarounds. The example in this article will render a simple horizontal menu with submenus that are displayed when you move the mouse over the menu .
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