Responsive Dropdown Navigation

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  Amélie•330

  @aweliegoPosted almost 2 years ago

  Hi! I was looking for more solutions on this challenge and came across yours.

  I personally like using flexbox for elements like a navbar as I find it more suitable than grid for small components (flexbox being content-first based while grid is layout-first based), but in principle you can use whichever you like to achieve the same thing. I think you did well with flexbox!

  It's been a minute since I wrote vanilla JS but I don't think you can do much shorter/better for the dropdown functionality (and the other functionalities for that matter). Your JS does exactly what it's supposed to do and is concise. I like that it's simple and easy to understand!

  Regarding the height of the image and description, I assume what you want to do is having the bottom of the description (the client images) aligned with the bottom of the image. If that's what you meant, you can achieve this with align-tems: end; on the hero container:

  .hero {
    margin-bottom: 3rem;
  
    @include breakpoint-up(xlarge) {
      display: grid;
      grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
      grid-auto-rows: auto;
      gap: 2rem;
      width: 90%;
      max-width: 1000px;
      margin-right: auto;
      margin-left: auto;
      align-items: end; ------> add this
    }
  
    &__image {
      margin-bottom: 2rem; ------> remove this
      order: 1;
    }
  
    &__description {
      padding-right: 1rem;
      padding-left: 1rem;
      text-align: center;
  
      @include breakpoint-up(medium) {
        padding-right: 3rem;
        padding-left: 3rem;
      }
  
      @include breakpoint-up(xlarge) {
        text-align: left;
        align-self: center; ------> remove this
        padding: 0;
      }
    }
  

  Or just replace align-self: center; with align-self: end; but I think it's nicer to have the property on the parent element. Then you just need to play with the margin/padding of the text elements inside the description to make it look better.

  Regarding the breakpoints, I usually go for just two or three views of the site, so mobile/desktop or mobile/tablet/desktop (depending on the project). I agree that it's a bit overkill otherwise to have so many, and most sites will render well also with fewer breakpoints.

  Overall I think you did a good job on this challenge, your code is very clean and easily readable, and the responsiveness is top notch! Keep it up!

  EDIT: something I forgot to mention - I find it a bit unhandy that the drop-downs in the navbar open on hover but that you need to click the button to keep them open, and that to close them you need to click again exactly on the button (instead of just anywhere). So I think there could be some improvements here as well. Also, the arrow icons (both in the navbar and sidebar) are not pointing to different directions when you open/close the drop-downs, as shown on the designs.

  Marked as helpful

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  Musa Magwaza•110

  @itsmusaPosted almost 2 years ago

  @aweliego I appreciate you taking the time to provide me your feedback.

  regarding the drop-down I wanted it to open and keep them open when you hover and close when you're not hovering, without clicking, but I have not figured out how to do that yet.

  Thank you.

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  Amélie•330

  @aweliegoPosted almost 2 years ago

  @itsmusa You're welcome!

  You can achieve that effect with mouseenter and mouseleave events instead of click events and hover :)

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