Author: Anton Andreasson
Comments: "I had to resort to fixed widths for the list items to get better browser support, and also add a workaround for IE5/Mac since it doesn't understand the 100% width of the parent list (nor of the nested list itself)."
HTML
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Item one</a>
<ul id="subnavlist">
<li id="subactive"><a href="#" id="subcurrent">Subitem one</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Subitem two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Subitem three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Subitem four</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Item two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item four</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
#navlist
{
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 1.05em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border-bottom: 3px solid #f63;
white-space: nowrap;
}
#navlist li
{
float: left;
margin: 0 0 0 2px;
border-width: 1px 1px 0 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #aaa #555 #f63 #999;
list-style-type: none;
}
#navlist li a
{
position: relative;
width: 6em;
display: block;
margin: 0;
padding: 1px 0.4em;
border-width: 1px 1px 0 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #ccc;
background-color: #eee;
color: #666;
font: normal 0.7em/120% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
}
#navlist li a:hover
{
color: #00c;
text-decoration: underline;
}
#navlist li#active a
{
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #f63;
color: #fff;
border-color: #f96 #c30 #f63 #f96;
}
#navlist li#active a:hover { color: #fff; }
#navlist ul#subnavlist
{
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
left: 0;
top: 1.25em;
height: 0.75em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border-bottom: 3px solid #f63;
white-space: nowrap;
}
#navlist ul#subnavlist li
{
width: 14ex;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
}
#navlist ul#subnavlist li a
{
width: auto;
padding: 0.06em 1em 0;
border: 0;
background-color: #fff;
color: #000;
font: normal normal 0.66em/110% Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
#navlist ul#subnavlist li a:hover
{
color: #00c;
text-decoration: underline;
font-weight: 400;
/* IE5/Mac disappearing item fix */
}
#navlist ul#subnavlist li#subactive a
{
background-color: #fc9;
color: #000;
}
* html > body #navlist, * html > body #navlist ul#subnavlist
{
width: 600px;
/* IE5/Mac fixed width fix */
}
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.