# How to create vertical and horizontal menus with RoR

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-vertical-and-horizontal-menus-with-ror/113591>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-vertical-and-horizontal-menus-with-ror/113591 "2007-09-02T13:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsn1)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-vertical-and-horizontal-menus-with-ror/113591/1 "2007-09-02T13:40:52Z")

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Hi all

I am designing an applicaiton that needs horizontal and vertical menus,  
and I would like to know how to create them with RoR

I am looking for something similar to the left vertical menu from  
Amazon ([http://amazon.com](http://amazon.com)) called Browse. And the horizontal menu on top  
of the pagewith tabs and links.

Also the horizontal an vertical menus for this web site seems very user  
friendly [http://mamboserver.com](http://mamboserver.com)

any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsn1)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-vertical-and-horizontal-menus-with-ror/113591/2 "2007-09-03T15:25:33Z")

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On 9/2/07, Jose P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Also the horizontal an vertical menus for this web site seems very user  
> friendly [http://mamboserver.com](http://mamboserver.com)
> 
> any suggestions?

This is possible with just pure CSS. In Rails you would just assign a  
helper  
method to spit back the appropriate structure. Still there’s probably  
plugins  
out there that make all of this a bit more turn-key.