Newbie at CSS could use some help

[kamaboko]

With so many more technical questions on this forum, it’s actually embarrassing to ask, but….I’m new to CSS and have started to learn how to make menu’s. (I’ve left a link below). In my sample_2 menu, I cannot seem to get the entire button block background to change color when it’s scrolled over. It’s as though there are about 2 or 3px of space to the left of buttons 2, 3, and 4 that don’t change. I’m using the Eric Meyer’s reset and have pasted below the menu what I did with CSS. Help is appreciated.

http://webpractice.us/Project_Menu/menu.html

Thanks,
K

[wolfcry911]

you could add a left margin of -0.25em to the li
or, change from display: inline-block to float: left (and then contain them adding overflow: hidden; to the ul)

[CrocoDillon]

It’s the whitespace between inline-block elements (think of the elements as words and the whitespace as the space between those words). There are lot’s of ways to remove that. Some require modifying markup like adding comments to remove any whitespace between the elements (a comment between each li closing tag and the next li opening tag), some are done in CSS, like `margin-right: -0.25em;` on the li, or adjusting letter-spacing, word-spacing, font-size, maybe more on the ul element.

EDIT: Of course I’m typing too slow again, but @wolfcry911, right margin works better then left margin ;)

[kamaboko]

Thanks everyone. Much appreciated.

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