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Simple Pagination

If you have a website that has lot of pages, and you need to  add some sort of pagination to each page:

HTML
				
					<h2>Simple Pagination</h2>
<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  <a href="#">1</a>
  <a href="#">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#">6</a>
  <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
</div>
CSS
				
					.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}
.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
}

Output

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Active and Hoverable Pagination

Use the current page with an .active class, and apply the :hover selector to change the color of each page link when the mouse is moved over them:

HTML
				
					<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  <a href="#">1</a>
  <a class="active" href="#">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#">6</a>
  <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
</div>
CSS
				
					.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}

.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
}

Output

Rounded Active and Hoverable Buttons

Use the border-radius property to add the rounded “active” and “hover” button:

HTML
				
					<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  <a href="#">1</a>
  <a href="#" class="active">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#">6</a>
  <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
</div>
CSS
				
					.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}

.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

.pagination a:hover:not(.active) {
  background-color: #ddd;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

Output

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Bordered Pagination

The border property is used to add borders to the pagination:

HTML
				
					<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  <a href="#">1</a>
  <a href="#" class="active">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#">6</a>
  <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
</div>
CSS
				
					.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}

.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background-color .3s;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
}

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  border: 1px solid #4CAF50;
}

Output

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Space Between Links

HTML
				
					<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  <a href="#">1</a>
  <a href="#" class="active">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#">6</a>
  <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
</div>
CSS
				
					.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}

.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background-color .3s;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  margin: 0 4px;
}

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  border: 1px solid #4CAF50;
}

Output

Pagination Size

Changing the size of the pagination with the font-size property:

HTML
				
					<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  <a href="#">1</a>
  <a href="#" class="active">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#">6</a>
  <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
</div>
CSS
				
					.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}

.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background-color .3s;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  font-size: 22px;
}

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  border: 1px solid #4CAF50;
}

.pagination a:hover:not(.active) {background-color: #ddd;}

Output

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Centered Pagination

Wrapping a container element (like <div>) around it with text-align:center centers the pagination.

HTML
				
					<div class="center">
  <div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  <a href="#">1</a>
  <a href="#" class="active">2</a>
  <a href="#">3</a>
  <a href="#">4</a>
  <a href="#">5</a>
  <a href="#">6</a>
  <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
  </div>
</div>
CSS
				
					.center {
  text-align: center;
}

.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}

.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background-color .3s;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  margin: 0 4px;
}

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  border: 1px solid #4CAF50;
}

.pagination a:hover:not(.active) {background-color: #ddd;}

Output

More Examples

HTML
				
					<p>Next/Previous buttons:</p>
<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#">❮</a>
  <a href="#">❯</a>
</div>

<p>Navigation pagination:</p>
<div class="pagination">
  <a href="#" class="active">Home</a>
  <a href="#">Link 1</a>
  <a href="#">Link 2</a>
  <a href="#">Link 3</a>
</div>
CSS
				
					body {
  background-color:white;
}
.pagination {
  display: inline-block;
}

.pagination a {
  color: black;
  float: left;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background-color .3s;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
}

.pagination a.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  border: 1px solid #4CAF50;
}

.pagination a:hover:not(.active) {background-color: #ddd;}

Output

Next/Previous buttons:

❮ ❯

Navigation pagination:

Breadcrumbs

Another variation of pagination is known as “breadcrumbs”:

HTML
				
					<ul class="breadcrumb">
  <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Pictures</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Summer 15</a></li>
  <li>Italy</li>
</ul>
CSS
				
					ul.breadcrumb {
  padding: 8px 16px;
  list-style: none;
  background-color: #eee;
}

ul.breadcrumb li {display: inline;}

ul.breadcrumb li+li:before {
  padding: 8px;
  color: black;
  content: "/\00a0";
}

ul.breadcrumb li a {color: green;}

Output