Esempio da dove puoi prendere spunto, osserva l'id active
codice:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#navcontainer {
background: #f0e7d7;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 1em 0 0 0;
font-family: georgia, serif;
text-transform: lowercase;
}
#navcontainer:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
line-height: 1px;
font-size: 1px;
clear: both;
}
ul#navlist {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 80%;
font-size: 0.8em;
}
ul#navlist li {
display: block;
float: left;
width: 15%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul#navlist li a {
display: block;
width: 100%;
padding: 0.5em;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #ffe #aaab9c #ccc #fff;
border-style: solid;
color: #777;
text-decoration: none;
background: #f7f2ea;
}
#navcontainer>ul#navlist li a { width: auto; }
ul#navlist li#active a {
background: #f0e7d7;
color: #800000;
}
ul#navlist li a:hover, ul#navlist li#active a:hover {
color: #800000;
background: transparent;
border-color: #aaab9c #fff #fff #ccc;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active">Home[*]Products[*]Services[*]Support[*]Order[*]News
[/list]
</div>
</body>
</html>