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
#navcontainer
{
background: #f0e7d7;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 1em 0 0 0;
font-family: georgia, serif;
text-transform: lowercase;
}
/* to stretch the container div to contain floated list */
#navcontainer:after
{
content: ".";
display: block;
line-height: 1px;
font-size: 1px;
clear: both;
}
ul#navlist
{
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 80%;
font-size: 0.8em;
}
ul#navlist li
{
display: block;
float: left;
width: 15%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul#navlist li a
{
display: block;
width: 100%;
padding: 0.5em;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #ffe #aaab9c #ccc #fff;
border-style: solid;
color: #777;
text-decoration: none;
background: #f7f2ea;
}
#navcontainer>ul#navlist li a { width: auto; }
ul#navlist li#active a
{
background: #f0e7d7;
color: #800000;
}
ul#navlist li a:hover, ul#navlist li#active a:hover
{
color: #800000;
background: transparent;
border-color: #aaab9c #fff #fff #ccc;
}
ABOUT THE CODE
Some lists within the Listamatic site had to be modified so that they could
work on Listamatic's simple list model. When in doubt, use the external
resource first, or at least compare both models to see which one suits your needs.