Question

I have a website with a navigation and some borders as a devider. But I don’t want the border to stretch from top ’till bottom. Any idea how to do this?

Currently, I have the first image, but I would like to make the lower one. I was thinking padding or line-height, but I’m not sure…

Answer 1

use padding yes

.yourlink {display:inline-block;padding:10px 0; border-right: 1px solid #000;}

Worked out a solution:
http://jsfiddle.net/X4DZS/1/

HTML

<ul id="mymenu">
    <li><a href="#">item 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li>
</ul>

CSS

#mymenu {display:block;height:40px;padding:10px;background-color:Green;}
#mymenu li {display:inline-block;background-color:Green;float:left;}
#mymenu a {display:block;color:#000;padding:10px;border-right:1px solid #000;height:20px;text-decoration:none;}
#mymenu li:hover {background-color: Blue;}
#mymenu li:hover a {color:#fff;text-decoration:underline;}