Question

I haven’t really ever done a background navigation rollover, I usually just change the colour of the text once it’s been rolled over. However I’m try to do this now but can’t seem to get it right.

I’m trying to do it all with CSS as I believe there is a way however I do see a lot of others using sprites and image rollovers. Which way is the best? I might end up having a lot of images on my website so I’m trying to stay away from them so I myself, am thinking strictly CSS. There is a way right?

This is my website

CSS

#main-navigation { width: 100%; height: 100px; background: url(../img/NAV-BG.jpg) top center no-repeat; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 90px; /*border: 1px solid #000;*/ }
#main-navigation ul { width: 860px; list-style: none; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;}
#main-navigation li { float: left ;margin-left: 30px; }
#main-navigation li a { display: block; text-decoration: none; color: #000; }
#main-navigation li a:hover { color: #c7bd89; background-color: #900; width: 120%; height: 30px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; margin: 0 auto; margin-top: 20px;}

HTML

<nav id="main-navigation">
           <ul id="main-nav-left">
               <li class="current"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Current Season</a></li>
               <li><a href="#">Past Seasons</a></li>
               <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
               <li><a href="#">Partners/Sponsors</a></li>
           </ul>
  </nav>

But I want it to look like this

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Use this

#main-navigation li a:hover {
    color: #c7bd89;
    background-color: #900;
    width: 120%;
    line-height: 30px;
    -moz-border-radius: 5px;
    border-radius: 5px;
    margin-top: 30px;
}

All the problem is that you’re defining a height … You should define a line-height instead and it will work flawlessly … But I still can find a space for improvement in terms of padding and margin.