Un esempio vale più di mille parole, in rosso come fare quello che tu hai chiesto
codice:
<!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" />
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background: #FFF;
color: #000;
font: 12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
a:link, a:visited {
color: #FF2A84;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:hover, a:active {
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
background: #FF2A84;
}
#navigation {
background: #DDD;
border-bottom: 1px solid #A1A1A1;
margin: 1em 0 0;
padding: 0.6em 0 0;
font-weight: bold;
}
#navigation ul, #navigation ul li {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#navigation ul {
padding: 5px 0 5px;
text-align: center;
}
#navigation ul li {
display: inline;
}
#navigation ul li a {
background: url(tableft.gif) no-repeat left top;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 0;
}
#navigation ul li span {
background: url(tabright.gif) no-repeat right top;
padding: 5px 7px 5px 3px;
margin: 4px 0 4px 4px;
}
#navigation ul li a:hover span {
text-decoration: underline;
background-position: 100% -75px;
}
#navigation ul li a:hover {
background-position: 0 -75px;
}
#navigation #current a {
background-position: 0 -150px;
}
#navigation #current a span {
background-position: 100% -150px;
}[/COLOR]
/*- Internet Explorer...It's Hacktastic!--------------------------- */
/*\*//*/
#navigation ul li a {
display: inline-block;
white-space: nowrap;
width: 1px;
}
#navigation ul {
padding-bottom: 0;
margin-bottom: -1px;
}
/**/
/*\*/
* html #navigation ul li a {
padding: 0;
}
/**/
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li id="current"><span>Home</span>[*]<span>Products</span>[*]<span>Services</span>[*]<span>Support</span>[*]<span>Order</span>[*]<span>News</span>[*]<span>About</span>
[/list]
</div>
</body>
</html>