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🧭 Building a CSS-Only Course Navigator with Modern Techniques
I recently came across this awesome article navigation component by Jhey Tompkins on CodePen. It helped me solve a UX issue I was facing in a project, so I adapted it for an online course layout — what I like to call a “course navigator.”
In this article, I’ll walk you through how I built it, what it does, and how we can leverage modern CSS to create a powerful, interactive navigation component — all without JavaScript (well, almost).
🎯 What the Course Navigator Does
This component is designed for online learning platforms. It:
– Links to all course lessons
– Smoothly scrolls to lesson sections via anchor links
– Displays how much of the current lesson has been read
– Supports light/dark mode toggling
– Stays fixed at the bottom of the screen and collapses on scroll
And yes — it’s built entirely with HTML and CSS using cutting-edge features currently supported in Chrome.
🧱 The HTML Structure
The core of this component is a