CSS only menu with mouse over
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css"> ul#navlist{ margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; width:160px; border:1px solid red; border-top:2px solid red; position:absolute; left:100px; top:50px; } ul#navlist a { display: block; width: 100%; background-color: #aaa; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 2px solid red; } ul#navlist a span { position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; width:100%; background-color: #eee; border-bottom: 1px solid red; visibility:hidden; } ul#navlist li.active a { background:#ffffcc; color:red; border-top:1px solid red; margin-top:-4px } ul#navlist li a:hover { background: #FFFFcc; color:black; visibility:visible } </style> </head> <body id="page1"> <ul id="navlist"> <li class="active"><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> <li><a href="">Link 2<span>Link 1</span></a></li> <li><a href="">Link 3<span>Link 1</span></a></li> <li><a href="">Link 4<span>Link 1</span></a></li> <li><a href="">Link 5<span>Link 1</span></a></li> <li><a href="">Link 6<span>Link 1</span></a></li> </ul> </body> </html>