Stairway Navigation A jQuery Plugin It’s nothing but a visual effect in which the hovered (or active) navigation item becomes the tallest “stair” and other items before and after it step down. It’s simple, but it’s not something you see very often. Probably for one major reason: you can’t select “previous” elements in CSS.

You can select “next” elements in CSS. You’d use the general sibling combinator to get all the next elements or the adjacent sibling combinator to get the very next one (which you could chain). Neither of those allow you to get the previous elements which, as you can see by the image above, is needed to do this effect justice.

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