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 7.2 - lists as navigation - Example 7.2

 <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="example2.css"/>

In example2.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