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Shade Image Tabs Menu

Author: Dynamic Drive

This is an attractive "blue shading" image tab menu. The shade effect is created using two gradient background images, one for the overall tabs, and the other, for the currently "active" tab. Based partially on the Basic Tabs menu, Shade Image Tabs Menu supports three commonly requested features:

Ability to align the menu tabs "left", "center", or "right" on the page
Highlight a particular tab so it appears selected/ active,
Change the width of the tab menu (so the underline beneath it spans a length other than the entire width of the page.

Demo:

The two images (resized for easier download):

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.shadetabs{
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
/* width: 90%; width of menu. Uncomment to change to a specific width */
margin-bottom: 1em;
}

.shadetabs ul{
padding: 3px 0;
margin-left: 0;
margin-top: 1px;
margin-bottom: 0;
font: bold 12px Verdana;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: left; /*set to left, center, or right to align the menu as desired*/
}

.shadetabs li{
display: inline;
margin: 0;
}

.shadetabs li a{
text-decoration: none;
padding: 3px 7px;
margin-right: 3px;
border: 1px solid #778;
color: #2d2b2b;
background: white url(media/shade.gif) top left repeat-x;
}

.shadetabs li a:visited{
color: #2d2b2b;
}

.shadetabs li a:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
color: #2d2b2b;
}

.shadetabs li.selected{
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}

.shadetabs li.selected a{ /*selected main tab style */
background-image: url(media/shadeactive.gif);
border-bottom-color: white;
}

.shadetabs li.selected a:hover{ /*selected main tab style */
text-decoration: none;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<div class="shadetabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/new.htm">DHTML</a></li>
<li class="selected"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">CSS</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>
</ul>
</div>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 05/17/2006

Revision History: None

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