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Bevel Vertical Menu

Author: Dynamic Drive (usage terms)

This CSS creates an "3 state" vertical menu out of an ordinary list. When the mouse moves over the menu, the menu item bevels up. Furthermore, in modern browsers such as Firefox (not IE6), clicking on the menu creates a depressed effect while the mouse is held down.

The bevel effect is painlessly created by using the border-style: outset attribute. There's no need to manually color the 4 borders of the menu item.

Demo:

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.bevelmenu{
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 180px;
}

.bevelmenu li a{
display: block;
width: 100%;
padding: 2px 4px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #FFF2BF;
border: 2px solid #FFF2BF;
text-decoration:none;
}

.bevelmenu li a:hover{
color: black;
background-color: #FFE271;
border-style: outset;
}

html>body .bevelmenu li a:active{ /* Apply mousedown effect (non IE browsers only) */
border-style: inset;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<ul class="bevelmenu">
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/" >Dynamic Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/" >CSS Library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com/jsref/">JavaScript Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com/domref/">DOM  Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com">CSS Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.codingforums.com/">Coding Forums</a></li>			
</ul>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 04/29/2006

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

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