Author: Ingo Turski
Comments: The colors of this menu are choosen for blue (i.e. #39c) background or other blue elements on the website.
Notice: delete the Tantek-hack if you use this list in a document that forces Internet Explorer 6 to render it in quirks mode. If you have not set font-size for BODY or you have set it with 'EM', you should set font-size:100% for '#navcontainer'. Otherwise the Internet Explorer won't zoom correctly. If you like to show the current item as simple text and not as a link, cover it with a SPAN and define '#navlist span' similar to '#navlist a' but with the PADDING, BACKGROUND and BORDER of '#navlist a:active' except the red BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR of 'a#current'.
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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
{
color: white;
background: #17a;
border-bottom: 0.2em solid #17a;
border-right: 0.2em solid #17a;
padding: 0 1px;
margin-left: 0;
width: 12em;
font: normal 0.8em Verdana, sans-serif;
}
#navlist li
{
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
font-size: 1em;
}
#navlist a
{
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
margin-top: 0.5em;
color: white;
background: #39c;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #5bd #035 #068 #6cf;
border-left: 1em solid #fc0;
padding: 0.25em 0.5em 0.4em 0.75em;
}
#navlist a#current { border-color: #5bd #035 #068 #f30; }
#navlist a
{
width: 99%;
/* only necessary for Internet Explorer */
}
#navlist a
{
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family: inherit;
width: 9.6em;
/* Tantek-hack should only used if Internet-Explorer 6 is in standards-compliant mode */
}
#navcontainer>#navlist a
{
width: auto;
/* only necessary if you use the hacks above for the Internet Explorer */
}
#navlist a:hover, #navlist a#current:hover
{
background: #28b;
border-color: #069 #6cf #5bd #fc0;
padding: 0.4em 0.35em 0.25em 0.9em;
}
#navlist a:active, #navlist a#current:active
{
background: #17a;
border-color: #069 #6cf #5bd white;
padding: 0.4em 0.35em 0.25em 0.9em;
}
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.