Eric Meyer's tabbed navbar

Author: Eric Meyer

Comments: From Eric Meyers Minimal Markup, Surprising Style Presentation.

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HTML
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Item one</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item four</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

CSS
#navlist
{
padding: 3px 0;
margin-left: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #778;
font: bold 12px Verdana, sans-serif;
}

#navlist li
{
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
display: inline;
}

#navlist li a
{
padding: 3px 0.5em;
margin-left: 3px;
border: 1px solid #778;
border-bottom: none;
background: #DDE;
text-decoration: none;
}

#navlist li a:link { color: #448; }
#navlist li a:visited { color: #667; }

#navlist li a:hover
{
color: #000;
background: #AAE;
border-color: #227;
}

#navlist li a#current
{
background: white;
border-bottom: 1px solid white;
}


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