diff --git a/app/components/Navbar.tsx b/app/components/Navbar.tsx
index 352d077..2224534 100644
--- a/app/components/Navbar.tsx
+++ b/app/components/Navbar.tsx
@@ -345,7 +345,18 @@ export function Navbar({ singleActiveProduct }: { singleActiveProduct: boolean }
     // position itself.
     <>
     <header
-      className={`sticky top-0 z-50 w-full h-[6.25rem] flex flex-col transition-[background-color,backdrop-filter] duration-300 ${
+      // min-h-, not a fixed h- — the fixed height used to cap this flex
+      // column at exactly 6.25rem regardless of content. The top row below
+      // has shrink-0 (always fills all 6.25rem on its own), so the mobile
+      // drawer panel — the column's only other child — had zero room left.
+      // Flex items default to `min-height: auto` (their own content size),
+      // which normally would've still forced the column taller — but the
+      // panel's own `overflow-hidden` (needed for its open/close animation)
+      // resets that automatic minimum to 0 per spec, so flexbox was free to
+      // crush it to a literal 0px box instead of pushing the header taller.
+      // The hamburger icon itself was never the problem — it toggled to "X"
+      // correctly; the panel it opens was rendering at zero height beneath it.
+      className={`sticky top-0 z-50 w-full min-h-[6.25rem] flex flex-col transition-[background-color,backdrop-filter] duration-300 ${
         scrolled || mobileOpen
           ? "bg-bg-base/80 backdrop-blur-md"
           : "bg-bg-base"
@@ -502,78 +513,94 @@ export function Navbar({ singleActiveProduct }: { singleActiveProduct: boolean }
         </div>
       </div>
 
-      {/* Mobile drawer panel — toggleable below lg (see hamburger above) */}
+      {/* Mobile drawer panel — toggleable below lg (see hamburger above).
+          `grid-rows-[0fr]/[1fr]` (not a guessed max-h-[Nrem]) is what
+          actually animates the open/close height — a CSS grid row sized in
+          `fr` units transitions smoothly between 0 and its content's real
+          height with no fixed cap to guess/outgrow, the modern replacement
+          for the old max-height-accordion trick. `overflow-hidden` has to
+          live on the *inner* div, not this one — collapsing a 0fr grid row
+          already clips its content on its own, and this outer element is
+          also where the opacity/translate fade below is applied, which
+          must NOT itself be clipped (a translateY sliding a hidden/clipped
+          element in doesn't read as a fade-in, just a hard cut). */}
       <div
         id="mobile-nav-panel"
         ref={panelRef}
-        className={`lg:hidden w-full overflow-hidden transition-[max-height] duration-300 ease-in-out ${
-          mobileOpen ? "max-h-[30rem]" : "max-h-0"
+        className={`lg:hidden grid w-full transition-[grid-template-rows] duration-300 ease-in-out ${
+          mobileOpen ? "grid-rows-[1fr]" : "grid-rows-[0fr]"
         }`}
       >
-        <nav className="flex flex-col gap-6 px-8 pt-2 pb-6">
-          {navLinks.map((link) => {
-            const isActive = isNavLinkActive(link.href, pathname, activeSection);
-            const isHomeAnchor = link.href.startsWith("#") && pathname === "/";
-            const resolvedHref = link.href.startsWith("#") && pathname !== "/" ? `/${link.href}` : link.href;
-            return link.href.startsWith("#") ? (
-              <Link
-                key={link.href}
-                href={resolvedHref}
-                onClick={
-                  isHomeAnchor
-                    ? (e) => {
-                        e.preventDefault();
-                        closeMobile();
-                        const el = document.getElementById(link.href.slice(1));
-                        if (el) {
-                          const top = el.getBoundingClientRect().top + window.scrollY - NAVBAR_HEIGHT;
-                          smoothScrollTo(top);
+        <div
+          className={`overflow-hidden transition-[opacity,transform] duration-300 ease-out ${
+            mobileOpen ? "opacity-100 translate-y-0 delay-100" : "opacity-0 -translate-y-2"
+          }`}
+        >
+          <nav className="flex flex-col gap-6 px-8 pt-2 pb-6">
+            {navLinks.map((link) => {
+              const isActive = isNavLinkActive(link.href, pathname, activeSection);
+              const isHomeAnchor = link.href.startsWith("#") && pathname === "/";
+              const resolvedHref = link.href.startsWith("#") && pathname !== "/" ? `/${link.href}` : link.href;
+              return link.href.startsWith("#") ? (
+                <Link
+                  key={link.href}
+                  href={resolvedHref}
+                  onClick={
+                    isHomeAnchor
+                      ? (e) => {
+                          e.preventDefault();
+                          closeMobile();
+                          const el = document.getElementById(link.href.slice(1));
+                          if (el) {
+                            const top = el.getBoundingClientRect().top + window.scrollY - NAVBAR_HEIGHT;
+                            smoothScrollTo(top);
+                          }
+                          history.replaceState(null, "", link.href);
                         }
-                        history.replaceState(null, "", link.href);
-                      }
-                    : closeMobile
-                }
-                className="min-h-11 flex flex-col justify-center gap-1 text-h4 font-semibold text-text-primary w-fit"
-              >
-                {link.label}
-                <span
-                  className={`h-[2px] bg-brand transition-opacity duration-200 ${
-                    isActive ? "w-10 opacity-100" : "w-10 opacity-0"
-                  }`}
-                />
-              </Link>
-            ) : (
-              <Link
-                key={link.href}
-                href={link.href}
-                onClick={closeMobile}
-                className="min-h-11 flex items-center text-h4 font-semibold text-text-primary"
-              >
-                {link.label}
-              </Link>
-            );
-          })}
-        </nav>
-        <div className="flex flex-col gap-3 px-8 pb-8">
-          <button
-            type="button"
-            onClick={() => {
-              closeMobile();
-              setNewsletterOpen(true);
-            }}
-            className="min-h-11 flex items-center justify-center px-6 py-4 rounded-sm border border-[#868686] text-h4 font-bold text-text-primary hover:border-brand hover:text-brand active:scale-[0.97] transition-all"
-          >
-            Newsletter
-          </button>
-          <Link
-            href="/challenge"
-            onClick={closeMobile}
-            className="min-h-11 flex items-center justify-center px-6 py-4 rounded-sm bg-brand text-h4 font-bold text-text-primary hover:bg-brand-hover active:scale-[0.97] transition-all"
-          >
-            7-Tage-Challenge
-          </Link>
-          <div onClick={closeMobile}>
-            <AccountLink variant="mobile" />
+                      : closeMobile
+                  }
+                  className="min-h-11 flex flex-col justify-center gap-1 text-h4 font-semibold text-text-primary w-fit"
+                >
+                  {link.label}
+                  <span
+                    className={`h-[2px] bg-brand transition-opacity duration-200 ${
+                      isActive ? "w-10 opacity-100" : "w-10 opacity-0"
+                    }`}
+                  />
+                </Link>
+              ) : (
+                <Link
+                  key={link.href}
+                  href={link.href}
+                  onClick={closeMobile}
+                  className="min-h-11 flex items-center text-h4 font-semibold text-text-primary"
+                >
+                  {link.label}
+                </Link>
+              );
+            })}
+          </nav>
+          <div className="flex flex-col gap-3 px-8 pb-8">
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              onClick={() => {
+                closeMobile();
+                setNewsletterOpen(true);
+              }}
+              className="min-h-11 flex items-center justify-center px-6 py-4 rounded-sm border border-[#868686] text-h4 font-bold text-text-primary hover:border-brand hover:text-brand active:scale-[0.97] transition-all"
+            >
+              Newsletter
+            </button>
+            <Link
+              href="/challenge"
+              onClick={closeMobile}
+              className="min-h-11 flex items-center justify-center px-6 py-4 rounded-sm bg-brand text-h4 font-bold text-text-primary hover:bg-brand-hover active:scale-[0.97] transition-all"
+            >
+              7-Tage-Challenge
+            </Link>
+            <div onClick={closeMobile}>
+              <AccountLink variant="mobile" />
+            </div>
           </div>
         </div>
       </div>