Author: Alan Hogan
Comments: Detailed explanation
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
#navcontainer
{
width: 12em;
border-right: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0px;
margin-bottom: 1em;
font-family: Verdana, Lucida, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
background-color: #90bade;
color: #333;
}
#navcontainer ul
{
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border: none;
}
#navcontainer li
{
border-bottom: 1px solid #90bade;
margin: 0;
}
#navcontainer li a
{
display: block;
padding: 6px .5em 6px .5em;
border-left: .7em solid #1958b7;
border-right: .7em solid #508fc4;
background-color: #2175bc;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
width: 9.6em;
}
#navcontainer li a:hover
{
border-left-color: #1c64d1;
border-right-color: #5ba3e0;
background-color: #2586d7;
color: #fff;
}
#navcontainer li li
{
border-top: 1px solid #90bade;
border-bottom: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#navcontainer li li a
{
padding: 4px .5em 4px 1.3em;
background-color: #5ba3e0;
width: 8.8em;
}
#navcontainer li li li a
{
padding: 3px .5em 3px 1.9em;
background-color: #73b2e8;
width: 8.2em;
}
ABOUT THE CODE
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