JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by John Grivas

HTML

<div id="main">

<ul id="navigationMenu">

    <li>
    	<a class="rotate home" href="#">
            <span>home</span>
        </a>
    </li>
    
    <li>
	     <a class="rotate about" href="#">
			<span>About</span>
         </a>
    </li>
    
    <li>
    	<a class="rotate services" href="#">
			<span>Services</span>
        </a>
    </li>
    
    <li>
    	<a class="rotate contact" href="#">
			<span>Contact</span>
        </a>
    </li>
</ul>
    
</div>

CSS

body{
	font-size:14px;
	color:#666;
	background:#111 no-repeat;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#navigationMenu li{
	list-style:none;
	padding:2px;
	width:15px;
	padding:10px;
	display:inline-block;

}

#navigationMenu ul{
	list-style:none;
}

#navigationMenu span{
	/* Container properties */
	width:0;
	left:38px;
	padding:5px;
	overflow:hidden;

	/* Text properties */
	font-family:'Myriad Pro',Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:18px;
	font-weight:bold;
	letter-spacing:0.6px;
	white-space:nowrap;
	line-height:39px;
	
	/* CSS3 Transition: */
	-webkit-transition: 0.25s;
	
	/* Future proofing (these do not work yet): */
	-moz-transition: 0.25s;
	transition: 0.25s;
}

#navigationMenu a{
	display:block;
	position:relative;
}

/* General hover styles */
#navigationMenu a:hover span{ width:20px; padding-left:15px;overflow:visible; }
#navigationMenu a:hover{
	text-decoration:none;	
	/*CSS outer glow with the box-shadow property
	-moz-box-shadow:0 0 5px #9ddff5;
	-webkit-box-shadow:0 0 5px #9ddff5;
	box-shadow:0 0 5px #9ddff5;*/
}

/* Blue Button */
#navigationMenu .home span{
	background-color:#1e8bb4;
	color:#223a44;
	text-shadow:1px 1px 0 #44a8d0;
}

/* Orange Button */
#navigationMenu .about span{
	background-color:#c86c1f;
	color:#5a3517;
	text-shadow:1px 1px 0 #d28344;
}

/* Yellow Button */
#navigationMenu .services span{
	background-color:#d0a525;
	color:#604e18;
	text-shadow:1px 1px 0 #d8b54b;
}


/* Purple Button */
#navigationMenu .contact span{
	background-color:#af1e83;
	color:#460f35;
	text-shadow:1px 1px 0 #d244a6;
}

/* The styles below are only needed for the demo page */
#main{
	margin:80px auto;
	position:relative;
	width:240px;
}

a, a:visited,a:active {
	color:#0196e3;
	text-decoration:none;
	outline:none;
}

a:hover{
	text-decoration:underline;
}

a img{
	border:none;
}

.rotate {
/* Safari */
-webkit-transform: rotate(-270deg);
/* Firefox */
-moz-transform: rotate(-270deg);
/* IE */
-ms-transform: rotate(-270deg);
/* Opera...