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Blue Blocks Menu

Author: Mark Newhouse- Taming Lists

This is an attractive "blocks" CSS menu with an accompanying hover effect. We added some changes of our own to the CSS to create a consistent menu width across browsers.

Demo:

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

#blueblock{
width: 180px;
border-right: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0 0 1em 0;
margin-bottom: 1em;
font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 90%;
background-color: #90bade;
color: #333;
}

* html #blueblock{ /*IE 6 only */
w\idth: 147px; /*Box model bug: 180px minus all left and right paddings for #blueblock */
}

#blueblock ul{
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: none;
}

#blueblock li {
border-bottom: 1px solid #90bade;
margin: 0;
}

#blueblock li a{
display: block;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 8px;
border-left: 10px solid #1958b7;
border-right: 10px solid #508fc4;
background-color: #2175bc;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
width: 100%;
}

html>body #blueblock li a{ /*Non IE6 width*/
width: auto;
}

#blueblock li a:hover{
border-left: 10px solid #1c64d1;
border-right: 10px solid #5ba3e0;
background-color: #2586d7;
color: #fff;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<div id="blueblock">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/">Dynamic Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com/">CSS Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/">Forums</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/">Gif Optimizer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/">Favicon Creator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/button/">Button Maker</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 05/07/2006

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

Your Comments (41)

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Excellent CSS Menu will implement thanks

Posted by brent on 05/31, 03:42 PM

the light blue at bottom looks a bit odd. except it thing is nice.

Posted by Shaon on 06/06, 03:06 PM

do you know how i can change all the background colours, sorry i'm new to this.

Posted by jane on 06/19, 07:32 AM

its a good script, i have use one on my blog. thanks for dynamicdrive team, thanks for free script. i put your url on my blog. http://medscript.blogspot.com

Posted by Sumedi on 07/02, 04:13 AM

Nice work! Thanks!

Posted by Alexander on 07/09, 07:19 AM

Not too sure what I am doing here...but I have placed the menu in a left frame, but I have added too many selections and now I can't seem to scroll down to see the last one. Is this fixable with the script, or do I have to do something in DW?

Any help would be great!

Posted by Dan on 08/06, 12:53 AM

Can any one help me make the above blueblocks menu so that it has sub menus like, Example:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/suckertree-menu-vertical/

No need to include th "the single image" as in the submenu example.

I REALLY APPRECIATE ANY ASSISTANCE!!!!!!

Posted by Michael Brooks on 08/18, 04:11 PM

Thanks for the menu, its really nice.

Iam not shure if this is spelling mistake in the IE Hack (w\idth)

w\idth: 147px; /*Box model bug: 180px minus all left and right paddings for #blueblock */

I guess this is right : (width)

width: 147px; /*Box model bug: 180px minus all left and right paddings for #blueblock */

Please let me know if I am wrong or right...

I added the code without the / and it works great.

Thanks again for this great page!

Posted by play piano on 12/07, 03:31 PM

HI GARY, Thank you very murch, it's very great.

Posted by nguyen van thuan on 12/08, 05:09 AM

New to CSS and this site has helped a lot!

Now, on this menu, how do I make the width of the blocks wider? I have tried various things but none I have tried work.

Thoughts anyone?

Posted by Paul Hurm on 01/01, 08:53 PM

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