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HTML Tutorial – CSS navigation bar with stylish web2.0 elements

Like in most CSS horizontal navigation bars an unordered list is used to hold the menu items:

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With the next CSS code it’s possible to style the horizontal navigation bar:

#container {
width:800px;
height:600px;
padding:20px;
}
ul#navbar {
background:url(/tutorials/web20_css_bar/backgr.jpg) repeat-x left top;
margin:0;
border-bottom:3px solid #98CB00;
border-top:1px solid #00CCFF;
list-style-type:none;
height:31px;
}
ul#navbar li {
float:left;
}
ul#navbar li a {
display:block;
padding:5px 15px 4px;
font:bold 16px "Trebuchet MS";
text-decoration:none;
color:#00CCFF;
letter-spacing: -0.1em;
}
ul#navbar li a:hover {
color:#98CB00;
}
ul#navbar li a#current {
background:url(/tutorials/web20_css_bar/current.gif) no-repeat center bottom;
color:#98CB00;
}

We placed the background image behind “ul” element and added the two borders to the top and bottom. The li element is defined as a floated block element and got some padding to create a bigger button. The last definition is for the current state, which will show up the tri-angle. You need some server-side code (php) to get a dynamic position every time a different page is loaded.

That’s all, download the example files here.

Source: web-development-blog.com

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