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
{
width: 12em;
border-right: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0 0 1em 0;
margin-bottom: 1em;
font-family: Verdana, Lucida, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
background-color: #90bade;
color: #333;
}
#navcontainer ul
{
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: none;
}
#navcontainer li
{
border-bottom: 1px solid #90bade;
margin: 0;
}
#navcontainer li a
{
display: block;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 0.5em;
border-left: 10px solid #1958b7;
border-right: 10px solid #508fc4;
background-color: #2175bc;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
width: 100%;
}
html>body #navcontainer li a { width: auto; }
#navcontainer li a:hover
{
border-left: 10px solid #1c64d1;
border-right: 10px solid #5ba3e0;
background-color: #2586d7;
color: #fff;
}
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.