---
category: Navigation
created: '2019-11-22'
description: Create a split navigation with CSS flexbox
keywords: css flexbox, css menu, css navigation, css split navigation
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/split-navigation.png
title: Split navigation
---

## HTML

```html index.html
<ul class="split-navigation">
    <!-- Navigation item -->
    <li class="split-navigation__item">
        <a href="">...</a>
    </li>

    <!-- Navigation item that sticks to the right -->
    <li class="split-navigation__item split-navigation__item--right">
        <a href="">...</a>
    </li>
</ul>
```

## CSS

```css styles.css
.split-navigation {
    /* Content is centered horizontally */
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;

    /* Reset styles */
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 0 0.5rem 0;
}

.split-navigation__item {
    margin-right: 0.25rem;

    /* Demo */
    width: 1.25rem;
}

.split-navigation__item--right {
    /* Sticks to the right */
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: 0;
}
```

<Playground>
```css placeholders.css hidden
.rectangle {
    background: #d1d5db;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    height: var(--rectangle-height);
    width: var(--rectangle-width);
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--20 {
    --rectangle-width: 20%;
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--40 {
    --rectangle-width: 40%;
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--60 {
    --rectangle-width: 60%;
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--80 {
    --rectangle-width: 80%;
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--100 {
    --rectangle-width: 100%;
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--sm {
    --rectangle-height: 0.5rem;
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--md {
    --rectangle-height: 2rem;
}
.rectangle--hor.rectangle--lg {
    --rectangle-height: 4rem;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--20 {
    --rectangle-height: 20%;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--40 {
    --rectangle-height: 40%;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--60 {
    --rectangle-height: 60%;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--80 {
    --rectangle-height: 80%;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--100 {
    --rectangle-height: 100%;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--sm {
    --rectangle-width: 0.5rem;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--md {
    --rectangle-width: 2rem;
}
.rectangle--ver.rectangle--lg {
    --rectangle-width: 4rem;
}
```

```css styles.css hidden
body {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
}

.split-navigation {
    /* Content is centered horizontally */
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;

    /* Reset styles */
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 0 0.5rem 0;

    /* Demo */
    border-bottom: 1px solid #d1d5db;
    width: 16rem;
}

.split-navigation__item {
    margin-right: 0.25rem;

    /* Demo */
    width: 1.25rem;
}

.split-navigation__item--right {
    /* Sticks to the right */
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: 0;
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<ul class="split-navigation">
    <li class="split-navigation__item"><div class="rectangle rectangle--hor rectangle--sm rectangle--100"></div></li>
    <li class="split-navigation__item"><div class="rectangle rectangle--hor rectangle--sm rectangle--100"></div></li>
    <li class="split-navigation__item"><div class="rectangle rectangle--hor rectangle--sm rectangle--100"></div></li>
    <li class="split-navigation__item split-navigation__item--right"><div class="rectangle rectangle--hor rectangle--sm rectangle--100"></div></li>
</ul>
```
</Playground>