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[[!meta title="Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)"]]
[[!meta date="2020-03-31"]]
In a previous article I wrote, [Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus](blog/minimal-css-menu), I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn't show just how complex (in a good way) you can make CSS-only menus. So, let's do just that.
## What we want to emulate
I think, like most designers, that the UI and web design work from the [Stripe](https://stripe.com/) team is pretty fantastic. Their clean approach using subtle animations and minimal elements make for a pleasant experience. Unfortunately, there is <i>one problem</i> with their current dropdown menus on their main website:
<b>They don't work if JavaScript is disabled.</b>
But we can easily fix that. So enough chit-chat, let's rip-off their menu design and recreate it with only CSS!
### Original ([Stripe Website](https://stripe.com))
<figure>
<img src="/public/images/stripe-default-menu.webp" alt="Stripe default menu">
<figcaption>Stripe's default menu dropdown (using both CSS & JavaScript) (<a href="/public/images/stripe-default-menu.webp">direct link to image</a>)</figcaption>
</figure>
### Our recreation ([CodePen Demo](https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/full/ExjMjLL))
<figure>
<img src="/public/images/stripe-recreated.webp" alt="Stripe menu recreated">
<figcaption>Our recreation with pure CSS (zero JavaScript) (<a href="/public/images/stripe-recreated.webp">direct link to image</a>)</figcaption>
</figure>
Although our redesign is far from an exact replica (some subtle animations are missing which could always be added) - it's still impressive what you can do with some bare-bones CSS. Just something to keep in mind the next time you decide to reach for a JavaScript library to implement a similar design.
## See it live in action
Load in the CodePen below and play around with the menu dropdown. Feel free to re-use, break. share or <i>steal</i> this for any and all purposes. Enjoy!
[Live CodePen Example](https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/ExjMjLL)
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