# Developing The “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript And CSS

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- Published: 2026-02-06T19:35:27+00:00
- Author: News Team

In this tutorial, Blake Lundquist walks us through two methods of developing the“
moving-highlight” navigation pattern utilizing only plain JavaScript and CSS. The
very first strategy uses the ‘getBoundingClientRect ‘approach to explicitly animate
the border in between navigation bar products when they are clicked. The 2nd technique
accomplishes the exact same performance utilizing the new View Shift API.  [Source](https://smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/creating-moving-highlight-navigation-bar-javascript-css/)

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