Lists as Side Navigation

Key points:

Default styling:
navigation lists

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)

 <nav 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> </nav> 

In head element:

<link rel="stylesheet" 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;}
 

navigation lists