---
category: Navigation
created: '2019-12-13'
description: Create a drawer navigation with CSS
keywords: css drawer, css off-canvas
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/drawer.png
title: Drawer
---

This pattern is also known as off-canvas.

## HTML

```html index.html
<div class="drawer">
    <!-- Backdrop -->
    <div class="drawer__overlay"></div>

    <!-- Sidebar -->
    <div class="drawer__sidebar">...</div>
</div>
```

## CSS

```css styles.css
.drawer {
    /* Take full size */
    height: 100%;
    left: 0;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%;

    z-index: 9999;
}

.drawer__overlay {
    /* Take full size */
    height: 100%;
    left: 0;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%;

    /* User still can see the content of main page */
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);

    z-index: -1;
}

.drawer__sidebar {
    /* Take full height */
    height: 100%;
    left: 0;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    width: 200px;

    /* Background */
    background-color: #fff;
}
```

<Playground>
```css placeholders.css hidden
.lines {
    padding: 0.25rem 0;
    width: 100%;
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    flex-direction: column;
}
.line {
    background: #d1d5db;
    height: 1px;
    margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
}
.line.line--20 {
    width: 20%;
}
.line.line--40 {
    width: 40%;
}
.line.line--60 {
    width: 60%;
}
.line.line--80 {
    width: 80%;
}
.line.line--100 {
    width: 100%;
}
```

```css styles.css hidden
body {
    height: 24rem;
}

.drawer {
    /* Demo */
    border: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;

    display: flex;
}

.drawer__sidebar {
    /* Demo */
    border-right: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    width: 25%;
}

.drawer__overlay {
    /* Demo */
    background: #4b5563;
    flex: 1;
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<div class="drawer">
    <div class="drawer__sidebar">
        <div class="lines">
            <div class="line line--80"></div>
            <div class="line line--40"></div>
            <div class="line line--100"></div>
            <div class="line line--60"></div>
            <div class="line line--20"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="drawer__overlay"></div>
</div>
```
</Playground>