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Glossy Horizontal Menu

Author: Santosh Setty

A nicely curved, glossy looking horizontal menu. Three images are used to create the interface- an underlining repeating gradient image, plus left and right parts of a sliced tab image for the selected tab. The author (Santosh) has kindly created five different color schemes:

Demo:

The images used:

Red scheme (3 images):

Blue scheme (3 images):

Green scheme (3 images):

Orange scheme (3 images):

Purple scheme (3 images):

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">
  
/*Credits: By Santosh Setty (http://webdesigninfo.wordpress.com) */
/*Posted to: Dynamic Drive CSS Library (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/) */

.glossymenu{
	position: relative;
	padding: 0 0 0 34px;
	margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
	background: url(media/menur_bg.gif) repeat-x; /*tab background image path*/
	height: 46px;
	list-style: none;
}

.glossymenu li{
	float:left;
}

.glossymenu li a{
	float: left;
	display: block;
	color:#000;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-family: sans-serif;
	font-size: 13px;
	font-weight: bold;
	padding:0 0 0 16px; /*Padding to accomodate left tab image. Do not change*/
	height: 46px;
	line-height: 46px;
	text-align: center;
	cursor: pointer;	
}

.glossymenu li a b{
	float: left;
	display: block;
	padding: 0 24px 0 8px; /*Padding of menu items*/
}

.glossymenu li.current a, .glossymenu li a:hover{
	color: #fff;
	background: url(media/menur_hover_left.gif) no-repeat; /*left tab image path*/
	background-position: left;
}

.glossymenu li.current a b, .glossymenu li a:hover b{
	color: #fff;
	background: url(media/menur_hover_right.gif) no-repeat right top; /*right tab image path*/
}

</style>

The HTML:

<ul class="glossymenu">
	<li class="current"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/"><b>Home</b></a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/"><b>CSS</b></a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/"><b>Forums</b></a></li>	
	<li><a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com"><b>Webmaster Tools</b></a></li>	
	<li><a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com/"><b>JavaScript</b></a></li>	
	<li><a href="http://www.cssdrive.com"><b>Gallery</b></a></li>	
</ul>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 11/01/2007

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

Your Comments (199)

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Comment Pages 20 of 20 pages « First < 18 19 20

I love this...very nice and was fun to install. If I could change one thing, it would be to get rid of the small gap below my menu. Look here please: http://buwalda.ca/sub/index.php I'm kinda new at css, so if anyone know's what I can do...I'd really appreciate it.

Posted by Abe on 10/03, 06:08 PM

i absolutly love your rollover tabs but the right and left image overlap slightly so to fix all u have to do is change padding:0 0 0 16px; to padding:0 0 0 19px; but other than that it perfect

Posted by baron on 10/15, 01:22 AM

Some people have been wondering how to center the menu on the page. While this technique is not perfect, it more or less does the job.



<ul class="glossymenu">

<li>Fill this with &.n.b.s.p (without the . ) until you get the position you want</li>

<li class="current">Home</li>

<li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li>

<li>Item 3</li>

<li>Item 4</li>

<li>Contact Us</li>

</ul>

Posted by Kevin on 10/19, 07:13 PM

could the css go in an external stylesheet

Posted by tom on 10/19, 09:30 PM

Excelente. Sin duda alguna el mejor que he visto.

Posted by Ray on 10/30, 04:36 AM

very nice, but how make the "current" menu item selected ?

Posted by al on 11/03, 04:49 AM

Nick you have to download the GIFs into folder which your HTML or webpage is in. Don't change the name. Copy the css into the <head> of your page. Then copy the <html> below <html> of your page.

Then on <css> code you have pasted, change background: url(media/menur_hover_left.gif) and the other two with (directories/filename) for example your directory may be C:/documents and settings/(user)/my documents/filename.

All should work. You may not be able to move the menu.

Posted by AB on 11/09, 10:47 AM

HOT STUFF

Posted by airweb on 11/10, 03:55 AM

Some people have been wondering how to center the menu on the page. New trick with this code solution for IE and FF.



<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr><td>

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<ul class="glossymenu">

  <li>images/infobox/menur_bg_1.gif</li>

  <li class="current">Tienda</li>

  <li>Cliente</li>

  <li>Compras</li>

  <li>Contactar</li>

  <li>Control</li>

  <li>Mail</li>

</ul>



</table></tr></td>

</table></tr></td>

The graphic: menur_bg_1.gif is same menur_bg, make more width 200px.
And that all

Posted by Lina on 11/18, 03:08 PM

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