Harvard Extension School
CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Web Site Development | Fall 2019

## Lists as Side Navigation

Key points:

- remove list styling
- make "a" element "block" display

Default styling:

Note: "a" display property is set to "block". This makes the hyperlink active over the whole area, not just with the text.

Example 6.9 - lists as navigation - Example 6.9 (Without Styles)

- Markup
- Style
- Screenshot

    <div id="navigation1"><ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.baylor.edu/">Baylor</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.iastate.edu/">Iowa State</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.ku.edu/">Kansas</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.ksu.edu/">Kansas State</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.ou.edu/">Oklahoma</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.okstate.edu/">Oklahoma State</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.tcu.edu/">Texas Christian</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.utexas.edu/">Texas</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.ttu.edu/">Texas Tech</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.wvu.edu/">West Virginia</a></li>
    </ul></div>

In `head` element:

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="example9.css"/>

In example9.css

    #navigation1 {
      font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-weight: bold;
      font-size: 0.7em;
      width: 15em;
      border-right: 1px solid #333;
      margin-bottom: 1em;
      background-color: #ddd;
      color: #900;
    }
    #navigation1 ul {
      list-style: none;
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
    }
    #navigation1 ul li {
      margin: 0;
      border-top: 1px solid #333;
    }
    #navigation1 ul li a {
      display: block;
      background-color: #ddd;
      border-top: 1px solid #333;
      border-left: 5px solid #333;
      text-decoration: none;
      padding: 5px 2px 5px 0.5em;
    }
    #navigation1 ul li a:link,
    #navigation1 ul li a:visited
    { color: #900; }
    #navigation1 ul li a:hover {
         color: #fff;
         background-color: #900;}

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