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    copied!<p>I am trying to create a homepage with a 'toolbar' look like the one that is used in the default google homepage.</p> <p>I have managed to put some HTML and CSS together, but I still have not been able to work out how to do the following two things:</p> <ol> <li><p>How to "gray out" the background of the menu item as the mouse hovers over it (like in the Google page)</p></li> <li><p>How to implement a nested menu. With this, I suspect that this may not be possible with CSS alone and so I may need to use javascript (in which case, I'll use jQuery)</p></li> </ol> <p>The menu structure is like this:</p> <pre><code>Menu 1 Menu 2 Menu 1 Sub Item 1 Menu 2 Sub item 1 Menu 1 Sub Item 2 Menu 2 Sub item 2 Menu 2 Sub Item 2 Sub Item 1 Menu 2 Sub Item 2 Sub Item 2 Menu 2 Sub Item 3 </code></pre> <p>Here is the (HTML and CSS) I have come up with so far:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; *{ padding:0px; margin:0px;} h2, h3{ color: #1f497d; padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px; } body{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #52525c; line-height: 18px; } #navigation{ background-color: #2d2d2d; color: #FFFFFF; height: 25px; list-style-type: none; font-size: 13px; } #navigation ul li { list-style-type: none; padding: 5px 20px 3px 5px; float: left; } #navigation a{ color: #CCCCCC; text-decoration: none; } #navigation a:hover, a:visited, a:active{ color: #FFFFFF; border-bottom-color: #c00000; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; } #navigation a.current{ color:#FF0000;} .tab{ width: 10%; float: left; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #CCCCCC; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #CCCCCC; } .tab2{ float: right; width: 8%; text-align: center; margin: 2px; background-color: #EFEFEF; color: #336699; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div id="navigation"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class="current"&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Menu Item 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="#"&gt;Menu Item 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Menu Item 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Menu Item 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Menu Item 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Menu Item 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Sign in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Can someone help me with how to implement 1 and 2?</p>
 

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