Simple Pagination - Vanilla CSS

Our Pagination UI Component is meticulously crafted to provide a seamless browsing experience for users navigating through content-heavy websites. Built using HTML and CSS, this component offers a blend of functionality and aesthetics, ensuring that users can effortlessly explore your website’s content.

With intuitive navigation controls, users can easily move between pages, reducing friction and enhancing engagement. The clean and modern design integrates seamlessly with various website styles, enhancing the overall visual appeal.

Key Features:

Responsive Design: Our pagination component adapts gracefully to different screen sizes, ensuring consistent performance across devices.
Customizable Styles: Tailor the appearance of the pagination component to match your website's branding and design language.
Accessibility: Prioritizing inclusivity, our component is designed to meet accessibility standards, ensuring all users can navigate your content effectively.
Lightweight and Fast: Optimized for performance, our pagination component adds minimal overhead to your website, ensuring swift page load times.

Integrating our Pagination UI Component into your HTML and CSS website is straightforward, requiring minimal setup and configuration. Elevate your user experience and streamline content navigation with our Pagination UI Component today.

Steps to Copy the Code

Looking to add pagination to your website without the hassle of complex JavaScript frameworks? You're in luck! Our step-by-step guide will walk you through creating a pagination component using just HTML and CSS. Follow these simple steps to implement pagination seamlessly into your web project.

Step 1: Copy the Code Snippet

Start by copying the HTML and CSS code snippet provided above. This snippet forms the foundation of our pagination component. Simply choose the tab, click the copy button, and the code will be copied to your clipboard.

Step 2: Link CSS and JS Files

Ensure that you link the CSS and JS files correctly in your HTML document. Place the CSS code inside the <style> tag in the <head> section of your HTML file. If you have any additional JavaScript functionality, include it similarly.

Step 3: Make it Yours

Customize the pagination component to match your website's design and requirements. You can adjust the colors, sizes, and styles by modifying the CSS styles accordingly. Experiment with different layouts and effects to create a pagination that seamlessly integrates with your website's aesthetic.

With these simple steps, you can quickly implement pagination using HTML and CSS, providing a user-friendly navigation experience for your website visitors. Make pagination your own by customizing it to suit your unique design preferences.

Code Explanation

HTML Code

<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#" class="prev">« Prev</a>
  <a href="#" class="active">1</a>
  <a href="#">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#" class="next">Next »</a>
</div>

Let's break down the HTML code:

<div class="pagination">: This div element contains the pagination links and is given the class "pagination" to style it accordingly. It serves as a container for the pagination component.
<a href="#" class="prev">« Prev</a>: This anchor element represents the link to navigate to the previous page. It has the class "prev" for styling purposes. The content within the anchor tag is the text "« Prev", where "«" represents a left-pointing double angle quotation mark, typically used to indicate a previous or backward action.
<a href="#" class="active">1</a>: This anchor element represents the link to the current page, which is page 1. It is given the class "active" to distinguish it from other pages. The content within the anchor tag is simply the number 1.
<a href="#">2</a>, <a href="#">3</a>, <a href="#">4</a>, <a href="#">5</a>: These anchor elements represent links to pages 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively. They don't have any special classes, indicating they are not the currently active page.
<a href="#" class="next">Next »</a>: This anchor element represents the link to navigate to the next page. It has the class "next" for styling purposes. The content within the anchor tag is the text "Next »", where "»" represents a right-pointing double angle quotation mark, typically used to indicate a next or forward action.

CSS Code

Pagination Container Styles:

.pagination {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.pagination: Selects elements with the class "pagination".
display: flex;: Makes the pagination container a flex container, allowing its children to be laid out in a flex layout.
justify-content: center;: Centers the child elements horizontally within the flex container.
margin-top: 20px;: Adds a margin of 20 pixels on top of the pagination container.

Pagination Link Styles:

.pagination a {
  color: #333;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  margin: 0 4px;
  transition: background-color 0.3s;
}

.pagination a: Selects anchor elements within the pagination container.
color: #333;: Sets the text color to dark gray (#333).
text-decoration: none;: Removes the default underline decoration from the anchor elements.
padding: 8px 16px;: Adds padding of 8 pixels on the top and bottom, and 16 pixels on the left and right, creating spacing around the anchor text.
border: 1px solid #ccc;: Adds a 1-pixel solid border around the anchor elements with a light gray color (#ccc).
margin: 0 4px;: Sets a margin of 0 on the top and bottom and 4 pixels on the left and right, creating spacing between adjacent anchor elements.
transition: background-color 0.3s;: Adds a smooth transition effect of 0.3 seconds to the background-color property of the anchor elements.

Hover Styles for Pagination Links:

.pagination a:hover {
  background-color: #f2f2f2;
}

.pagination a:hover: Selects anchor elements within the pagination container when hovered over.
background-color: #f2f2f2;: Changes the background color of the anchor elements to a lighter shade of gray (#f2f2f2) when hovered over.

Active Pagination Link Styles:

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #007bff;
  color: #fff;
  border-color: #007bff;
}

.pagination a.active: Selects the anchor element within the pagination container that has the class "active", representing the current page.
background-color: #007bff;: Sets the background color of the active anchor element to a blue shade (#007bff).
color: #fff;: Sets the text color of the active anchor element to white (#fff).
border-color: #007bff;: Sets the border color of the active anchor element to the same blue shade (#007bff).

Styles for Previous and Next Links:

.pagination .prev,
.pagination .next {
  background-color: #f2f2f2;
}
.pagination .prev:hover,
.pagination .next:hover {
  background-color: #d9d9d9;
}

.pagination .prev, .pagination .next: Selects anchor elements with the classes "prev" and "next" within the pagination container.
Sets their background color to a light shade of gray (#f2f2f2).
When hovered over, changes their background color to a slightly darker shade of gray (#d9d9d9) for a visual feedback effect.

Media Query:

@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
  .pagination {
    flex-wrap: wrap;
  }
  .pagination a {
    margin: 4px;
  }
}

@media only screen and (max-width: 600px): This line starts a media query that targets screens with a maximum width of 600 pixels. In other words, the styles inside this block will only apply when the screen width is 600 pixels or less.
.pagination { flex-wrap: wrap; }: Inside the media query block, this rule targets the elements with the class name "pagination" and sets their flex-wrap property to "wrap". This means that when the screen width is 600 pixels or less, the pagination links will wrap onto multiple lines if necessary, instead of trying to fit them all on a single line.
.pagination a { margin: 4px; }: This rule inside the media query block targets the anchor elements (<a>) within elements with the class name "pagination" and sets their margin to 4 pixels. This provides spacing between the pagination links when they wrap onto multiple lines on smaller screens.