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Underline Horizontal Menu

Author: Dynamic Drive

This is a sleek CSS horizontal menu with a popular "underline" effect shown whenever the mouse rolls over a link. Each link (<a>) also carries a background image, used to as the indented line graphic that separates each menu item. We choose to use a graphic instead of CSS's dashed line effect, since it seems to look better.

Demo:

The lone image (resized for easier download):

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

#underlinemenu{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#underlinemenu ul{
margin: 0;
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 0;
float: left;
font-weight: bold;
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid #DFDFDF;
border-width: 1px 0;
}

* html #underlinemenu ul{ /*IE only rule. Delete extra margin-bottom*/
margin-bottom: 0;
}

#underlinemenu ul li{
display: inline;
}


#underlinemenu ul li a{
float: left;
color: gray;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px;
text-decoration: none;
background: white url(media/menudivide.gif) top right repeat-y;
}

#underlinemenu ul li a:hover{
color: black;
background-color: #F3F3F3;
border-bottom: 4px solid black;
padding-bottom: 0;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<div id="underlinemenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/" title="CSS Library">CSS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/new.htm" title="New">New</a></li>
<li id="current"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/revised.htm" title="Revised">Revised</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tools.dynamicdrive.com" title="Tools">Tools</a></li>	
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/" title="DHTML Forums">Forums</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 05/02/2006

Revision History: None

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