HTML and CSS [Electronic resources]

Molly E. Holzschlag

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List-Based Vertical Navigation Using Color

Things begin to get really exciting when you combine links and lists for navigation. You'll begin here by first styling a simple list and getting rid of the bullets using the list-style-type property with a value of none. This removes the markers completely, leaving a list of links (see Example 10-10).

Example 10-10. Styling a list of links

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<!DOCTYP176 PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/l1/DTD/l1-transitional.dtd">
&l191 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/l">
<head>
<title>working with style</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {font: 14px Georgia, Times, serif; color: black;}
ul {list-style-type: none;}
a {color: orange; text-decoration: none;}
a:link {color: orange;}
a:visited {color: yellow;}
a:hover {color: fuchsia; text-decoration: underline;}  /* font-style: italic; font-weight:
 bold; background-color: aqua; */
a:active {color: red;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li><a href="hom176">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="product190">Products</a></li>
<li><a href="service190">Services</a></li>
<li><a href="abou191">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="contac191">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
<l>

Figure 10-16 shows the list of styled links with no markers.

Figure 10-16. Simple list-based vertical navigation with styled links.

Okay, so that's not so fancy. Hang on! It gets better. By using a range of styles, including border effects and padding (see Chapter 11, "Margins, Borders, and Padding"), you can add a lot to this simple navigation bar. You can also add background colors and images to make the list more visually interesting (see Example 10-11).

Example 10-11. Adding styles to the list