Question

I’ve got a question about creating a vertical image sprite menu.

Here’s my HTML:

<div id="menu">

    <ul id="menulijst">
    <li id="index"> <a href="index.html"> home </a> </li>
    <li id="auteur"> <a href="auteur.html" > de auteur </a> </li>
    <li id="recensies"> <a href="recensies.html"> recensies </a> </li> 
    <li id="siberie"> <a href="siberie.html"> siberie </a> </li>
    </ul> 

</div> 

Here’s a picture of the menu I created in photoshop and how it looks in my site:

I’m new to creating web pages so I found this site to explain me how to make the sprite work but somehow whatever I try it doesn’t. (I have found more sites but I can’t post them here because I don’t have enough points)

1. http://line25.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-css-menu-using-image-sprites

My CSS:

@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */


* 
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
} 

body
{
color: rgb(0,0,0);
background-color: #ffffff;
line-height: 1.6;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

div#wrapper
{
width: 790px; 
background-color: #cccccc;
margin: auto; 
} 

div#header 
{ 
padding: 10px 20px;
background-color: #333333;
text-align: center;
color: #ffffff;
} 

div#menu 
{ 
width: 160px; 
float: left;
height: 335px;
border: 1px rgb(153,153,153);
} 

#menulijst
{
float: left;
width: 160px; 
height: 335px; 
background-image:url(../isweb/menuknoppen.png);
position: relative;
}

#menulijst li
{
margin: 0; 
padding: 0; 
list-style: none;
position: absolute; 
top: 0;
}

#menulijst li, #menulijst a 
{
height: 200px; 
display: block;
}

#index {left: 0; width: -95px;}
#auteur {left: 0; width: -75px;}
#recensies {left: 0; width: -110px;}
#siberie {left: 0; width: -117px;}


div#menu ul li 
{
margin: 10px;
}

div#content
{ 
width: 590px; 
padding: 10px 20px; 
background-color: #999999;
float: right; 
} 

div#footer
{ 
clear: both; 
padding: 10px 20px;
background-color: #333333; 
text-align: center; 
color: #ffffff;
}

div#footer ul li 
{
display: inline;
margin: 10px;
}

h1
{
font-size: 16px; 
text-transform: uppercase; 
}

a
{
color: rgb(204,204,204);
text-transform: uppercase;
text-decoration: none;
}

p
{
margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
}

.zijwolf
{
float: left; 
padding: 15px 15px 5px 0px;
}

li
{
list-style: none;
}

I made a menu based on the one in the first link but with my own twist (vertical, different color, etc.)
I put the darker color behind the lighter color for the hover effect explained in the first link but I can’t seem to position the links behind the right box.

Answer 1

It looks like you haven’t declared the on hover property and background position.

Try adding and tweaking.

ul#menulist li a.index {
   width: //add width px;
   background-position: 0 0;
}

ul#menulist li a.index:hover {
   background-position: -50px 0; //move the pixel position according to your sprite.
}