Creating jQuery Tree view without plugin

Simple and elegant web design is not much easier to achieve, that too with enormous amount of content to be presented to the users, it requires a lot of improvisation. Tree view menus and navigators are certainly the best choice as it saves a lot of space and imparts stylish look to any webpage. We will see about the basic tree view creation with html list elements and jQuery. Though there are complex jQuery tree view plugins, this could be achieved with just few lines of jQuery code.

Yep, that’s not the tree view I am talking about. Ok, Now lets us delve into the code. Tree views rely heavily on jQuery and CSS. We will have a set of html unordered list elements and turn it into tree view with CSS and jQuery.