Pagination: 10 Clever & Unique Examples

Whether it’s a list of blog posts, a photo or video gallery, an image slider, or anything else on a website that has multiple pages, they all have something in common: pagination, or a way to navigate from page to page. While many websites use relatively common layouts and styles for page navigation, this is an area where designers and developers can add some creativity to enhance the user experience. In this post we have compiled 10 CodePen examples of creative page navigation for your inspiration. We hope these will inspire you to try out some new tricks of your own.

Responsive Flexbox Pagination

See the Pen Responsive Flexbox Pagination by William H. (@iamjustaman) on CodePen.

Swiper

See the Pen Swiper custom pagination by Pavel Zakharoff (@ncer) on CodePen.

Pacman

See the Pen Pacman pagination by Mikael Ainalem (@ainalem) on CodePen.

Yeti Hand

See the Pen Yeti Hand by Darin (@dsenneff) on CodePen.

Gooey

See the Pen Gooey by Lucas Bebber (@lbebber) on CodePen.

Pure CSS3 Responsive Pagination

See the Pen Pure CSS3 Responsive Pagination by Béla Varga (@netzzwerg) on CodePen.

Pagination Buttons

See the Pen Pagination Buttons by Himalaya Singh (@himalayasingh) on CodePen.

AngularJS – Example with logic like Google

See the Pen AngularJS – Example with logic like Google by Jason Watmore (@cornflourblue) on CodePen.

Flexing arrows

See the Pen Flexing arrows by Hakim El Hattab (@hakimel) on CodePen.

Infinite

See the Pen Infinite by Mariusz Dabrowski (@MarioD) on CodePen.

How Will You Spice Up Your Pagination?

Did these examples of page navigation give you some ideas? Did they spark your creativity and inspire you to try something different in your next project? Sure, you can stick with the basic, plain old page numbers, but why not kick it up a notch? Let us know if you try something new next time, and be sure to check out some of our other collections of code snippets while you’re at it.