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Black menu symbolizes fashion, business, reliance, which is widely used for the various website, such as commerce, government and education. Black menu is easy to match with website color which ranges from light to dark, the classic color scheme includes black & white, red & black and black & blue. Black menu is plain and high capacity to contain almost all URL links to reach the target page quickly.

How to Create Black Menu?

With Sothink DHTML Menu, you can choose the proper one from 2 methods to get your wanted black menu.

We will take this menu for example to learn setting black menu:

Method One: Insert image of black background as background for the whole menu.

The black menu created by this method will be like this:

1. Check “Top-Level-Menu” in the menu panel, and enter “Popup menu > Background” to choose black image as background for the whole menu.

   

2. Check all menu items, and enter “Menu Item > Background” to set background color as “Transparent”.

   

Method Two: Set black background image or background color to every menu item

The black menu created by this method will be like this:

1. Check all menu items, and enter “Menu Item > Background” to set background color as “black” or insert black image as background image.

   

2. Check “Top-Level-Menu” and enter “Menu Item > Border” to set border as 0; check the popup menu and enter “Popup Menu > Border” to set border as 0; and check menu items and enter “Menu Item > Border” to set border as 0.

Sothink DHTML Menu provides many well-designed black menus in built-in templates, which you can apply them directly. Let’s view these black menus:

Silver Black

Silver black menu will change into blue when the mouse is over on menu item.

Board

Black menu is on the top, and popup menu uses the irregular background image.

List

The menu contains multi-column list popup menus.

With Sothink DHTML Menu, you just edit background setting for menu item or popup menu. You can set the background as black, or insert the black image as background in panel below:

If you want to set black for each menu item, enter the “Menu Iitem > Background” property panel.

If you want to set black for popup menu or the 1-level menu, enter the “Popup Menu > Background” property panel.

Simple enough? Download Sothink DHTML Menu to experience this process and create black menu from the built-in templates.

Website color is vital component for web design. Many website designers are likely to choose black as main color from a marketing point of view. In order to get a certain harmony, the web elements usually apply the similar or the same color to match with web design, for example, black menu is used on the black website.

Black menu is color joker, it is widely used for the various website colors which ranges from light to dark, the classic color includes black&white, red&black; black menu conveys the sense of fashion, business, reliance; black menu is plain and high capacity to contain almost all URL links to reach the target page quickly. Black menu is absolutely the popular menu, let’s view the excellent black menus from the famous companies:

Adobe

Sony

Nero