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Information

Using a span to hold the shadow information and display it on hover.

19th September 2006

Updated to place menu items in a list and restyled to work in Opera 9.01

Cascading Style Sheet

#menu {
padding:0;
margin:0;
height:2em;
list-style-type:none;
border-left:1px solid #bbb;
}
#menu li {
float:left; 
width:5em; 
height:2em;
line-height:2em;
border-right:1px solid #bbb;
position:relative;
text-align:center;
}
#menu li a, #menu li a:visited {
display:block;
text-decoration:none; 
color:#000;
}
#menu li a span, #menu li a:visited span {
display:none;
}
#menu li a:hover {
border:0; /* needed to trigger IE */
color:#bbb;
}
#menu li a:hover span {
display:block;
width:5em;
height:2em;
text-align:center;
position:absolute; 
left:-2px; 
top:-3px; 
color:#000; 
cursor:pointer;
}

xhtml

<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="#nogo">ITEM 1<span>ITEM 1</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">ITEM 2<span>ITEM 2</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">ITEM 3<span>ITEM 3</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">ITEM 4<span>ITEM 4</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">ITEM 5<span>ITEM 5</span></a></li>
</ul>



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