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Experiments with Cascading Style Sheets

Example Menu eight

Pre 2006

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Information

Getting a bit more complicated. Using a top left and top right span 'block' to chamfer the corners giving a tab effect.

See menueight_b for an unordered list version of this menu.

Cascading Style Sheet

#container {
  position:relative; 
  }
#menu {
  text-align:center; 
  position:relative; 
  height:8em;
  }
.box {
  position:relative; 
  float:left; 
  top:30px;
  }
#menu a, #menu a:visited {
  position:relative; 
  text-decoration:none; 
  background-color:#06a; 
  color:#fff; 
  display:block; 
  width:70px; 
  height:15px; 
  padding:5px;
  margin:0 1px;
  }
#menu a .topleft, #menu a .topright {
  position:absolute; 
  top:0; 
  width:0; 
  height:0; 
  overflow:hidden;
  border-top:10px solid #fff;
  }
#menu a .topleft {
  left:0; 
  border-right:10px solid #06a; 
  }
#menu a .topright {
  left:70px; 
  border-left:10px solid #06a; 
  }
#menu a:hover {
  background-color:#000; 
  }
#menu a:hover .topleft {
  border-right:10px solid #000; 
  border-top:10px solid #fff;
  }
#menu a:hover .topright {
  border-left:10px solid #000; 
  border-top:10px solid #fff;
  }

xhtml

<div id="container">
  <div id="menu">
    <div class="box">
      <a href="#nogo">
        Item 1
        <span class="topleft"></span>
        <span class="topright"></span>
      </a>
    </div>
    <div class="box">
      <a href="#nogo">
        Item 2
        <span class="topleft"></span>
        <span class="topright"></span>
      </a>
    </div>
    <div class="box">
      <a href="#nogo">
        Item 3
        <span class="topleft"></span>
        <span class="topright"></span>
      </a>
    </div>
    <div class="box">
      <a href="#nogo">
        Item 4
        <span class="topleft"></span>
        <span class="topright"></span>
      </a>
    </div>
    <div class="box">
      <a href="#nogo">
        Item 5
        <span class="topleft"></span>
        <span class="topright"></span>
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Copyright

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